CALT EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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Strephosymbolia -CORRECTANSWER means twisted symbols. The first term Orton
used for dyslexia.
phonetics -CORRECTANSWER the study of speech sounds in spoken language
phonological awareness -CORRECTANSWER the ability to focus on units of sound in
spoken language at the sentence, word, syllable and phoneme levels
phonemic awareness -CORRECTANSWER awareness of speech sounds or phonemes
in spoken words
phonics -CORRECTANSWER instruction that connects sounds and letters
synthetic phonics -CORRECTANSWER explicitly teaches individual grapheme-
phoneme correspondences before they are blended to form syllables or whole words
alphabetic principle -CORRECTANSWER the understanding that spoken sounds are
represented in print by written letters
,consonant -CORRECTANSWER blocked / voiced or unvoiced sounds - a class of
speech sounds with air flow that is constricted or obstructed
vowel -CORRECTANSWER open and voiced sounds - a class of open speech sounds
produced by the passage of air through an open vocal tract
phonology -CORRECTANSWER the rules that determine how sounds are used in
spoken language
fluency -CORRECTANSWER reading with rapidity and automaticity with prosody
prosody -CORRECTANSWER the rhythmic flow of oral reading
pragmatics -CORRECTANSWER set of rules that dictate communicative behavior and
use of language, rules we communicate by
syntax -CORRECTANSWER sentence structure, grammar, usage
semantics -CORRECTANSWER content of language, used to express knowledge of
the world around us - meaning
phoneme -CORRECTANSWER smallest unit of sound in a syllable
,spelling -CORRECTANSWER sound to symbol / phoneme to grapheme, connect
grapheme to phoneme
orthography -CORRECTANSWER the spelling of written language
orthographic memory -CORRECTANSWER memory of letter patterns and word
spellings
metalinguistics -CORRECTANSWER awareness of language as an entity
guided discovery -CORRECTANSWER a method of leading students to new learning
through questioning
Heuristic -CORRECTANSWER means to discover by demonstration
grapheme -CORRECTANSWER a letter or letter cluster that represents a single speech
sound
decoding -CORRECTANSWER word recognition in which the phonetic code is broken
down to determine a word
blending -CORRECTANSWER fusing individual sounds, syllables or words into
meaningful units
, reading -CORRECTANSWER symbol to sound / grapheme to phoneme
morpheme -CORRECTANSWER 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 -CORRECTANSWER the study of word formation patterns, meaningful
units that make words
fricative -CORRECTANSWER a sound produced by forcing air through a narrow
opening between the teeth or lips / f / / sh / / z /
nasal sound -CORRECTANSWER a sound produced by forcing air out through th nose
/n//m/
continuant sound -CORRECTANSWER a sound prolonged in its production / m / / s / / f
/
stop consonant sound -CORRECTANSWER a sound obstructed / they must be clipped
off / b / / d /
100% PASS|| GRADED A+|| LATEST
UPDATE 2026
Strephosymbolia -CORRECTANSWER means twisted symbols. The first term Orton
used for dyslexia.
phonetics -CORRECTANSWER the study of speech sounds in spoken language
phonological awareness -CORRECTANSWER the ability to focus on units of sound in
spoken language at the sentence, word, syllable and phoneme levels
phonemic awareness -CORRECTANSWER awareness of speech sounds or phonemes
in spoken words
phonics -CORRECTANSWER instruction that connects sounds and letters
synthetic phonics -CORRECTANSWER explicitly teaches individual grapheme-
phoneme correspondences before they are blended to form syllables or whole words
alphabetic principle -CORRECTANSWER the understanding that spoken sounds are
represented in print by written letters
,consonant -CORRECTANSWER blocked / voiced or unvoiced sounds - a class of
speech sounds with air flow that is constricted or obstructed
vowel -CORRECTANSWER open and voiced sounds - a class of open speech sounds
produced by the passage of air through an open vocal tract
phonology -CORRECTANSWER the rules that determine how sounds are used in
spoken language
fluency -CORRECTANSWER reading with rapidity and automaticity with prosody
prosody -CORRECTANSWER the rhythmic flow of oral reading
pragmatics -CORRECTANSWER set of rules that dictate communicative behavior and
use of language, rules we communicate by
syntax -CORRECTANSWER sentence structure, grammar, usage
semantics -CORRECTANSWER content of language, used to express knowledge of
the world around us - meaning
phoneme -CORRECTANSWER smallest unit of sound in a syllable
,spelling -CORRECTANSWER sound to symbol / phoneme to grapheme, connect
grapheme to phoneme
orthography -CORRECTANSWER the spelling of written language
orthographic memory -CORRECTANSWER memory of letter patterns and word
spellings
metalinguistics -CORRECTANSWER awareness of language as an entity
guided discovery -CORRECTANSWER a method of leading students to new learning
through questioning
Heuristic -CORRECTANSWER means to discover by demonstration
grapheme -CORRECTANSWER a letter or letter cluster that represents a single speech
sound
decoding -CORRECTANSWER word recognition in which the phonetic code is broken
down to determine a word
blending -CORRECTANSWER fusing individual sounds, syllables or words into
meaningful units
, reading -CORRECTANSWER symbol to sound / grapheme to phoneme
morpheme -CORRECTANSWER 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 -CORRECTANSWER the study of word formation patterns, meaningful
units that make words
fricative -CORRECTANSWER a sound produced by forcing air through a narrow
opening between the teeth or lips / f / / sh / / z /
nasal sound -CORRECTANSWER a sound produced by forcing air out through th nose
/n//m/
continuant sound -CORRECTANSWER a sound prolonged in its production / m / / s / / f
/
stop consonant sound -CORRECTANSWER a sound obstructed / they must be clipped
off / b / / d /
