CALT EXAM NEWEST 2024 ACTUAL EXAM COMPLETE
200 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
(VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A+
Strephosymbolia - ANSWER: means twisted symbols. The first term Orton used for
dyslexia.
phonetics - ANSWER: the study of speech sounds in spoken language
phonological awareness - ANSWER: the ability to focus on units of sound in spoken
language at the sentence, word, syllable and phoneme levels
phonemic awareness - ANSWER: awareness of speech sounds or phonemes in
spoken words
phonics - ANSWER: instruction that connects sounds and letters
synthetic phonics - ANSWER: explicitly teaches individual grapheme-phoneme
correspondences before they are blended to form syllables or whole words
alphabetic principle - ANSWER: the understanding that spoken sounds are
represented in print by written letters
consonant - ANSWER: blocked / voiced or unvoiced sounds - a class of speech sounds
with air flow that is constricted or obstructed
vowel - ANSWER: open and voiced sounds - a class of open speech sounds produced
by the passage of air through an open vocal tract
phonology - ANSWER: the rules that determine how sounds are used in spoken
language
fluency - ANSWER: reading with rapidity and automaticity
prosody - ANSWER: the rhythmic flow of oral reading
pragmatics - ANSWER: set of rules that dictate communicative behavior and use of
language, rules we communicate by
syntax - ANSWER: sentence structure, grammar, usage
semantics - ANSWER: content of language, used to express knowledge of the world
around us - meaning
,phoneme - ANSWER: smallest unit of sound in a syllable
spelling - ANSWER: sound to symbol / phoneme to grapheme, connect grapheme to
phoneme
orthography - ANSWER: the spelling of written language
orthographic memory - ANSWER: memory of letter patterns and word spellings
metalinguistics - ANSWER: awareness of language as an entity
guided discovery - ANSWER: a method of leading students to new learning through
questioning
Heuristic - ANSWER: means to discover by demonstration
grapheme - ANSWER: a letter or letter cluster that represents a single speech sound
decoding - ANSWER: word recognition in which the phonetic code is broken down to
determine a word
blending - ANSWER: fusing individual sounds, syllables or words into meaningful
units
reading - ANSWER: symbol to sound / grapheme to phoneme
morpheme - ANSWER: the smallest meaningful unit of language - a suffix, prefix, root
or stem such as awe, dis, in, inter, or word part such as cat, man. etc.
Knowledge of word meaning, rapid word recognition, and spelling ability greatly
depend on knowledge of word structure at the level of morphemes.
morphology - ANSWER: the study of word formation patterns, meaningful units that
make words
fricative - ANSWER: a sound produced by forcing air through a narrow opening
between the teeth or lips / f / / sh / / z /
nasal sound - ANSWER: a sound produced by forcing air out through th nose / n / / m
/
continuant sound - ANSWER: a sound prolonged in its production / m / / s / / f /
stop consonant sound - ANSWER: a sound obstructed / they must be clipped off /
b//d/
aspiration - ANSWER: puff of air
, Norman Invasion - ANSWER: 1066 A.D., had a great effect on English language,
William the Conqueror, French spoken by upper class brought words like furniture,
painter, tailor, beef, pork, mutton, Brought monks who added w and u, also the dot
for the i and tail for the j. Alphabet complete at 26 letters
Number words one to a thousand - ANSWER: Anglo-Saxon
Most of the basic color words - ANSWER: Anglo-Saxon
The names of farm, forest and ocean animals - ANSWER: Anglo-Saxon
Outer body parts - ANSWER: Anglo-Saxon
Short, common everyday words: the, run, and, play, work - ANSWER: Anglo-Saxon
Words with gh: laugh, cough, right, high - ANSWER: Anglo-Saxon
Words with ck: pick, duck, sack - ANSWER: Anglo-Saxon
Words with k: king, kiss, kilt, hook - ANSWER: Anglo-Saxon
Words with kn or gn in initial position: knee, knife, gnat, gnash - ANSWER: Anglo-
Saxon
Words with tw: twin, twilight, between - ANSWER: Anglo-Saxon
Words with wr: write, wring, wrist - ANSWER: Anglo-Saxon
Short words with ch pronounced /ch/ chest, cheap - ANSWER: Anglo-Saxon
One-syllable words with tch: witch, hatch, match - ANSWER: Anglo-Saxon
One-syllable words with dge: edge, ridge, hedge - ANSWER: Anglo-Saxon
Short words with th: this, these, bath - ANSWER: Anglo-Saxon
Words with wh: why, while, when - ANSWER: Anglo-Saxon
Words with double consonants: better, ladder, carrot - ANSWER: Anglo-Saxon
One-syllable words that end in ff, ll ss Floss Words - ANSWER: Anglo-Saxon
Words with ow: plow, snow, brow, blow - ANSWER: Anglo-Saxon
Short words with silent letters: walk, should, thumb, listen - ANSWER: Anglo-Saxon
Wild Old Words: mind, most, kind - ANSWER: Anglo-Saxon
200 QUESTIONS AND CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS
(VERIFIED ANSWERS) |ALREADY GRADED A+
Strephosymbolia - ANSWER: means twisted symbols. The first term Orton used for
dyslexia.
phonetics - ANSWER: the study of speech sounds in spoken language
phonological awareness - ANSWER: the ability to focus on units of sound in spoken
language at the sentence, word, syllable and phoneme levels
phonemic awareness - ANSWER: awareness of speech sounds or phonemes in
spoken words
phonics - ANSWER: instruction that connects sounds and letters
synthetic phonics - ANSWER: explicitly teaches individual grapheme-phoneme
correspondences before they are blended to form syllables or whole words
alphabetic principle - ANSWER: the understanding that spoken sounds are
represented in print by written letters
consonant - ANSWER: blocked / voiced or unvoiced sounds - a class of speech sounds
with air flow that is constricted or obstructed
vowel - ANSWER: open and voiced sounds - a class of open speech sounds produced
by the passage of air through an open vocal tract
phonology - ANSWER: the rules that determine how sounds are used in spoken
language
fluency - ANSWER: reading with rapidity and automaticity
prosody - ANSWER: the rhythmic flow of oral reading
pragmatics - ANSWER: set of rules that dictate communicative behavior and use of
language, rules we communicate by
syntax - ANSWER: sentence structure, grammar, usage
semantics - ANSWER: content of language, used to express knowledge of the world
around us - meaning
,phoneme - ANSWER: smallest unit of sound in a syllable
spelling - ANSWER: sound to symbol / phoneme to grapheme, connect grapheme to
phoneme
orthography - ANSWER: the spelling of written language
orthographic memory - ANSWER: memory of letter patterns and word spellings
metalinguistics - ANSWER: awareness of language as an entity
guided discovery - ANSWER: a method of leading students to new learning through
questioning
Heuristic - ANSWER: means to discover by demonstration
grapheme - ANSWER: a letter or letter cluster that represents a single speech sound
decoding - ANSWER: word recognition in which the phonetic code is broken down to
determine a word
blending - ANSWER: fusing individual sounds, syllables or words into meaningful
units
reading - ANSWER: symbol to sound / grapheme to phoneme
morpheme - ANSWER: the smallest meaningful unit of language - a suffix, prefix, root
or stem such as awe, dis, in, inter, or word part such as cat, man. etc.
Knowledge of word meaning, rapid word recognition, and spelling ability greatly
depend on knowledge of word structure at the level of morphemes.
morphology - ANSWER: the study of word formation patterns, meaningful units that
make words
fricative - ANSWER: a sound produced by forcing air through a narrow opening
between the teeth or lips / f / / sh / / z /
nasal sound - ANSWER: a sound produced by forcing air out through th nose / n / / m
/
continuant sound - ANSWER: a sound prolonged in its production / m / / s / / f /
stop consonant sound - ANSWER: a sound obstructed / they must be clipped off /
b//d/
aspiration - ANSWER: puff of air
, Norman Invasion - ANSWER: 1066 A.D., had a great effect on English language,
William the Conqueror, French spoken by upper class brought words like furniture,
painter, tailor, beef, pork, mutton, Brought monks who added w and u, also the dot
for the i and tail for the j. Alphabet complete at 26 letters
Number words one to a thousand - ANSWER: Anglo-Saxon
Most of the basic color words - ANSWER: Anglo-Saxon
The names of farm, forest and ocean animals - ANSWER: Anglo-Saxon
Outer body parts - ANSWER: Anglo-Saxon
Short, common everyday words: the, run, and, play, work - ANSWER: Anglo-Saxon
Words with gh: laugh, cough, right, high - ANSWER: Anglo-Saxon
Words with ck: pick, duck, sack - ANSWER: Anglo-Saxon
Words with k: king, kiss, kilt, hook - ANSWER: Anglo-Saxon
Words with kn or gn in initial position: knee, knife, gnat, gnash - ANSWER: Anglo-
Saxon
Words with tw: twin, twilight, between - ANSWER: Anglo-Saxon
Words with wr: write, wring, wrist - ANSWER: Anglo-Saxon
Short words with ch pronounced /ch/ chest, cheap - ANSWER: Anglo-Saxon
One-syllable words with tch: witch, hatch, match - ANSWER: Anglo-Saxon
One-syllable words with dge: edge, ridge, hedge - ANSWER: Anglo-Saxon
Short words with th: this, these, bath - ANSWER: Anglo-Saxon
Words with wh: why, while, when - ANSWER: Anglo-Saxon
Words with double consonants: better, ladder, carrot - ANSWER: Anglo-Saxon
One-syllable words that end in ff, ll ss Floss Words - ANSWER: Anglo-Saxon
Words with ow: plow, snow, brow, blow - ANSWER: Anglo-Saxon
Short words with silent letters: walk, should, thumb, listen - ANSWER: Anglo-Saxon
Wild Old Words: mind, most, kind - ANSWER: Anglo-Saxon
