CALT EXAM NEWEST 2024 ACTUAL EXAM COMPLETE
200 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
(VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A+
Components of Effective Literacy Instruction - ANSWER: phonological and phonemic
awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension
The Big Five - ANSWER: Nickname for the five essential components of effective
literacy instruction
National Reading Panel - ANSWER: outlined the give essential components of
effective literacy instruction in report (year 2000)
What is the importance of the sound/symbol system? - ANSWER: understanding
sounds/symbols enables students to sound out unfamiliar words, enables students
to build orthographic patterns, enables students to perceive larger chunks of words,
and enables students to use the context more efficiently
Sound/symbol foundation - ANSWER: phonemic awareness and instant letter
recognition
Alphabetic Principle - ANSWER: a phoneme is represented by a grapheme
phoneme - ANSWER: smallest unit of sound in a word which effects meaning
grapheme - ANSWER: letter or group of letters used to represent one sound
Reading and Written Expressive Language - ANSWER: the two components of
Literacy Instruction
Decoding and Comprehension - ANSWER: the two components of reading
Mechanics and Composition/Creativity - ANSWER: the two components of Written
Expressive Language
Opportunities and Direct Instruction - ANSWER: the two components of instruction
Decoding - ANSWER: instant word recognition, phonemic awareness, sound/symbol
association (instant letter recognition), structural analysis, context
Listening Comprehension - ANSWER: oral language (most important!), world
knowledge, strategic thinking, inference making
Fluency - ANSWER: bridge between decoding and comprehension
,Comprehension - ANSWER: the ultimate goal of reading
Instant Word Recognition - ANSWER: acquired through repeated exposure to the
word and from over learning the patterns of language
Mechanics - ANSWER: sentence structure, paragraph structure, spelling, handwriting
(writer should be comfortable with spelling and handwriting)
composition/creativity - ANSWER: oral language, world knowledge, strategic
thinking, inference making
Direct instruction components - ANSWER: Multisensory teaching and discovery
teaching
Domains of language - ANSWER: phonology, pragmatics, orthography, semantics,
syntax, morphology
Interactive components of language - ANSWER: Form, content (great ideas), use
(spelling, grammar, etc.)
Which domains fall into form component of language? - ANSWER: Phonology,
Morphology, Syntax, orthography
Which domain falls into the content component of language? - ANSWER: semantics
Which domain falls into the use component of language? - ANSWER: pragmatics
Orthography is the only domain - ANSWER: not developed orally first-starts at the
written level with spelling
phonology - ANSWER: refers to the SOUND STRUCTURE of a langauge; how sounds
operate. It is the unconscious set of rules that govern speech.
Euphony - ANSWER: pleasant sound; when words are formed or combined to please
the ear
phonological awareness - ANSWER: knowledge of and sensitivity to the BROAD
SOUND STRUCTURE OF LANGUAGE
Examples of phonological awareness activities - ANSWER: rhyming, alliteration,
counting words in sentences, counting syllables in words, omitting syllables,
phonemic awareness
Examples of phonemic awareness activities - ANSWER: identifying sounds in a word,
segmenting, blending, changing sounds in words, omitting sounds in words
morpheme - ANSWER: smallest unit of language that carries meaning
, morphology - ANSWER: the study of meaningful units of language, refers to the way
words are formed and related to one another
syntax - ANSWER: refers to the grammatical structure of language
orthography - ANSWER: refers to the patterns of written language; how words are
spelled: ortho=correct, graph=writing or recording; orthography means "correct
writing"; begins at the written level
orthographic memory - ANSWER: a memory specific for letter patterns or words
letter - ANSWER: A symbol
semantics - ANSWER: refers to the meaning conveyed by language, begins at an oral
level
pragmatics - ANSWER: social use of language/words in formal or informal discourse;
body language and eye contact can be a part of; begins at an oral level
figurative language - ANSWER: words or phrases that do not use the exact meanings
of words such as idioms, metaphors, and slang
Which domains begin at an oral level? - ANSWER: ALL but orthography
Which domains deal with form? - ANSWER: phonology, morphology, syntax,
orthography
Which domains deal with content? - ANSWER: semantics
Which domains deal with use? - ANSWER: pragmatics
Examples of pragmatics - ANSWER: using language in specific situations, use of
conversational skills, requesting, turn taking, staying on topic (topic contingency),
topic development, understanding figurative language such as similes, metaphors,
and idioms; understanding the feelings and emotions of characters, understanding
how characters treat each other
Examples of phonology - ANSWER: phonological awareness and phonemic
awareness activities, production of sounds (phonetics)
Examples of orthography - ANSWER: sound/symbol correspondences, letter
recognition, common letter patterns for reading, syllable types, syllable division
patterns, spelling patterns, rules, irregular words, fluency
Examples of semantics - ANSWER: vocabulary knowledge, text comprehension
200 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
(VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A+
Components of Effective Literacy Instruction - ANSWER: phonological and phonemic
awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension
The Big Five - ANSWER: Nickname for the five essential components of effective
literacy instruction
National Reading Panel - ANSWER: outlined the give essential components of
effective literacy instruction in report (year 2000)
What is the importance of the sound/symbol system? - ANSWER: understanding
sounds/symbols enables students to sound out unfamiliar words, enables students
to build orthographic patterns, enables students to perceive larger chunks of words,
and enables students to use the context more efficiently
Sound/symbol foundation - ANSWER: phonemic awareness and instant letter
recognition
Alphabetic Principle - ANSWER: a phoneme is represented by a grapheme
phoneme - ANSWER: smallest unit of sound in a word which effects meaning
grapheme - ANSWER: letter or group of letters used to represent one sound
Reading and Written Expressive Language - ANSWER: the two components of
Literacy Instruction
Decoding and Comprehension - ANSWER: the two components of reading
Mechanics and Composition/Creativity - ANSWER: the two components of Written
Expressive Language
Opportunities and Direct Instruction - ANSWER: the two components of instruction
Decoding - ANSWER: instant word recognition, phonemic awareness, sound/symbol
association (instant letter recognition), structural analysis, context
Listening Comprehension - ANSWER: oral language (most important!), world
knowledge, strategic thinking, inference making
Fluency - ANSWER: bridge between decoding and comprehension
,Comprehension - ANSWER: the ultimate goal of reading
Instant Word Recognition - ANSWER: acquired through repeated exposure to the
word and from over learning the patterns of language
Mechanics - ANSWER: sentence structure, paragraph structure, spelling, handwriting
(writer should be comfortable with spelling and handwriting)
composition/creativity - ANSWER: oral language, world knowledge, strategic
thinking, inference making
Direct instruction components - ANSWER: Multisensory teaching and discovery
teaching
Domains of language - ANSWER: phonology, pragmatics, orthography, semantics,
syntax, morphology
Interactive components of language - ANSWER: Form, content (great ideas), use
(spelling, grammar, etc.)
Which domains fall into form component of language? - ANSWER: Phonology,
Morphology, Syntax, orthography
Which domain falls into the content component of language? - ANSWER: semantics
Which domain falls into the use component of language? - ANSWER: pragmatics
Orthography is the only domain - ANSWER: not developed orally first-starts at the
written level with spelling
phonology - ANSWER: refers to the SOUND STRUCTURE of a langauge; how sounds
operate. It is the unconscious set of rules that govern speech.
Euphony - ANSWER: pleasant sound; when words are formed or combined to please
the ear
phonological awareness - ANSWER: knowledge of and sensitivity to the BROAD
SOUND STRUCTURE OF LANGUAGE
Examples of phonological awareness activities - ANSWER: rhyming, alliteration,
counting words in sentences, counting syllables in words, omitting syllables,
phonemic awareness
Examples of phonemic awareness activities - ANSWER: identifying sounds in a word,
segmenting, blending, changing sounds in words, omitting sounds in words
morpheme - ANSWER: smallest unit of language that carries meaning
, morphology - ANSWER: the study of meaningful units of language, refers to the way
words are formed and related to one another
syntax - ANSWER: refers to the grammatical structure of language
orthography - ANSWER: refers to the patterns of written language; how words are
spelled: ortho=correct, graph=writing or recording; orthography means "correct
writing"; begins at the written level
orthographic memory - ANSWER: a memory specific for letter patterns or words
letter - ANSWER: A symbol
semantics - ANSWER: refers to the meaning conveyed by language, begins at an oral
level
pragmatics - ANSWER: social use of language/words in formal or informal discourse;
body language and eye contact can be a part of; begins at an oral level
figurative language - ANSWER: words or phrases that do not use the exact meanings
of words such as idioms, metaphors, and slang
Which domains begin at an oral level? - ANSWER: ALL but orthography
Which domains deal with form? - ANSWER: phonology, morphology, syntax,
orthography
Which domains deal with content? - ANSWER: semantics
Which domains deal with use? - ANSWER: pragmatics
Examples of pragmatics - ANSWER: using language in specific situations, use of
conversational skills, requesting, turn taking, staying on topic (topic contingency),
topic development, understanding figurative language such as similes, metaphors,
and idioms; understanding the feelings and emotions of characters, understanding
how characters treat each other
Examples of phonology - ANSWER: phonological awareness and phonemic
awareness activities, production of sounds (phonetics)
Examples of orthography - ANSWER: sound/symbol correspondences, letter
recognition, common letter patterns for reading, syllable types, syllable division
patterns, spelling patterns, rules, irregular words, fluency
Examples of semantics - ANSWER: vocabulary knowledge, text comprehension
