CALT Test – Terms (Questions and answers)

Strephosymbolia correct answers means twisted symbols. The first term Orton used for dyslexia. phonetics correct answers the study of speech sounds in spoken language phonological awareness correct answers the ability to focus on units of sound in spoken language at the sentence, word, syllable and phoneme levels phonemic awareness correct answers awareness of speech sounds or phonemes in spoken words phonics correct answers instruction that connects sounds and letters synthetic phonics correct answers explicitly teaches individual grapheme-phoneme correspondences before they are blended to form syllables or whole words alphabetic principle correct answers the understanding that spoken sounds are represented in print by written letters phonology correct answers the rules that determine how sounds are used in spoken language fluency correct answers reading with rapidity and automaticity prosody correct answers the rhythmic flow of oral reading pragmatics correct answers set of rules that dictate communicative behavior and use of language, rules we communicate by syntax correct answers sentence structure, grammar, usage semantics correct answers content of language, used to express knowledge of the world around us - meaning phoneme correct answers smallest unit of sound in a syllable spelling correct answers sound to symbol / phoneme to grapheme, connect grapheme to phoneme orthography correct answers the spelling of written language orthographic memory correct answers memory of letter patterns and word spellings metalinguistics correct answers awareness of language as an entity guided discovery correct answers a method of leading students to new learning through questioning