2024 CALT EXAM PREP
COMPLETE QUESTIONS
WITH CORRECT ANSWERS
Words with t pronounced /ch/: nature, punctual - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Latin
Words with d pronounced /j/ educate, graduate - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Latin
Words with silent initial h: hour, herb, honor - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Latin
Words with ular: regular, popular - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Latin
Words with j: joint, journal - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Latin
Words that are legal terms: justice, legal, judge - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Latin
Words with the soft c before e and i: cent, census, city - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Latin
Words with sc pronounced /s/: science, irascible, scissors - CORRECT
ANSWER>>>>Latin
Medical , technical and scientific words - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Greek
Words with ph: phrase, graph, phone - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Greek
Words with ch pronounced /k/: choir, ache, orchid - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Greek
Long words with the letter k: kilometer, kinescope - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Greek
Long words or short, unfamiliar words with th: thermos, athlete - CORRECT
ANSWER>>>>Greek
Words with medial y: cycle, gymnastics, thyme - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Greek
Words related to Olympics: marathon, discus, meter - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Greek
Words related to theater: comedy, tragedy, orchestra - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Greek
Words with rh: rhyme, rhombus - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Greek
,Words with ology: biology, theology, astrology - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Greek
Words with silent initial p: pseudonym, psychology - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Greek
Rapid letter naming - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>key to automatic word recognition
decoding and encoding - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>refer to applying the skills of
analytic and synthetic learning
recognition of the visual symbol, symbol/sound correspondence, and blending sounds
into a words - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>decoding
Effective handwriting instruction - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>includes teaching the
correct pencil grip and formation of each letter
McGuffey Readers - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Formal reading instruction was based
on "phonics" used at the beginning of the 20th Century
Dick & Jane ( "Look/Say" Method ) - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Thought that children
would make more rapid progress reading if they identified whole words at a glance.
Used from 1930s - 1960s.
Rudolph Flesch - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>brought the issue of the great debate to the
publics attention on how best to teach a child to read. This came about in his book.
"Why Johnny Can't Read" (Mid 1950s)
NICHD - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Began looking at the issue as the deemed the
inability to read as a "national health issue" and began to fund research in the area of
reading. (1965)
"Learning to Read: The Great Debate" Jean Chall - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>This
book caught the attention of professionals and the government that our nation is in a
reading crisis. Children are not learning to read since the look and say method came
about. (1967)
Basal Reading Programs - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>These programs begin to drive
reading instruction. 70% of American Schools bought one or more of the best selling
programs. (1960s to mid 80s)
Kenneth Goodman and Frank Smith - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Developed the
TopDown approach to reading instruction. Believed that reading should be taught
through immersion in children's literature . Teaches reading without breaking it down
, into parts. Whole Language based, emphasis is on guessing at words rather than
sounding them out. (1980s)
G. Reid Lyon - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Became the coordinator of the research for
NICHD. (1985)
National Reading Panel Report - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Produced scientifically
based research that demonstrated that approximately 40% of the population "have
reading problems severe enough to hinder their enjoyment of reading." (2000)
Percentage of students in special ed who can't read - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>85%
(NICHD)
Five critical components of reading instruction - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>phonemic
awareness, phonics, fluency (identifying words accurately and fluently); vocabulary and
comprehension strategies (constructing meaning once words are identified)
I M F - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>initial, medial, final
Middle - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>means very center
Medial - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>means between initial and final
How are our decks aligned and why?*** - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>Alignment of
multiple responses - according to frequency and reliability of sounds
Digraph - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>two letters that come together to make one sound
Trigraph - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>three letters that come together to make one
sound
Quadrigraph - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>four letters that come together to make one
sound
Diphthong - CORRECT ANSWER>>>>two vowels sounds blended togther in the same
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