CALT Exam Prep Exam Latest Version 2023 Questions and 100% Verified Correct Answers Guaranteed A+ "Learning to Read: The Great Debate" Jean Chall - Ans 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)
A brief assessment that identifies students who may need additional testing or alternative instruction is known as - Ans informal screening
a student who learns better from a lecture/class discussion rather that the printed page is - Ans a poor visual learner
Ability - Ans test designed to measure either general intelligence or mental apptitude in a particular area.
Academic Achievement Test - Ans standardized test designed to efficiently measure the amount of knowledge and or skill a person has acquired, usually as a result of classroom instruction. Such testing produces a statistical profile used as a measurement to evaluate student learning in comparison with a standard or norm.
Accent - Ans stress on one syllable in a word or on one or more words in a phrase or sentence. It is spoken louder, longer, and/or in a higher tone. The mouth opens wider while saying it.
Accommodation - Ans provide different ways for kids to take in information or communicate their knowledge. Changes do not alter or lower the standards or expectations of a subject or test.
According to the National Reading Panel Report (2000), what represents the strongest indication of a reading disability - Ans a deficit in phonology
Accuracy - Ans The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.
achievement test - Ans designed to measure students' specific knowledge and skills (basic academic skills - are they performing at level?). Woodcock Johnson, WRAT)
active listening - Ans giving one's full attention to the speaker and making eye contact with him or her
acuity - Ans keenness of thought or vision (zero in on it and see what's going on)
ADHD - Ans Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder 1 / 3
Adolf Kusmaul - Ans 1877 - first used the term "word-blindness".
Affix - Ans a letter or letters added to the beginning or ending of a baseword or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that is different than the baseword or root
age (ij) - Ans French ending
Age equivalent - Ans a type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.
ain (in) - Ans French ending
alphabetic principle - Ans the understanding that spoken sounds are represented in print by written letters
ALTA - Ans Academic Language Therapy Association
Alvin and Isabel Liberman - Ans Alphabetic principle and its relationship to phonemic awareness and phonological awareness in reading.
An individual Education Plan (IEP) for a student identified with a learning disability does not include - Ans a prescription for a specific intervention (correct)
an individual with dyslexia might experience delays in social development as demonstrated by - Ans lack of good judgment, inability to stick with a game, erratic emotional behavior
analytical approach - Ans whole to part (Top-Down) put the whole word on the board/discover what's the same, how it can be broken down into component parts
Anglo Saxon - Ans Also Old English - spoken and written between at least the mid 5th century and the mid 12th century
Anglo Saxon Layer of Language - Ans Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life.Common, every day, down to earth words. Most are one syllable words.
Anna Gillingham - Ans 1930 - Psychologist and teacher in New York; along with Samuel T Orton at Columbia University, developed a non-traditional approach to teaching written language skills. Trained one teacher at a time, began working with Sally Childs and trained 50 teachers.
aspiration - Ans puff of air
ate (it) or (at) - Ans French ending 2 / 3
Attention - Ans selctive focus on what is important while screening out distractions
Auditory Learners - Ans participate in classroom discussions, make speeches/presentations, use tape recordings for lectures, read text out loud, create musical jingles, create mnemonics to aid memorization, discuss ideas verbally
Auditory Processing - Ans Given normal hearing, the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way
Basal Reading Programs - Ans These programs begin to drive reading instruction. 70% of American Schools bought one or more of the best selling programs. (1960s to mid 80s)
Base word - Ans plain old English word
Battery - Ans a group of several tests standardized on the same sample population so that results on the several tests are comparable
behavior rating scales - Ans completed by parents and sometimes teachers and used to check for symptoms of ADHD; measure and compare a child's behavior to that of
other children the same age. Examples: Connor's Rating Scale, Child Behavior
Checklist, Behavior Evaluation Scale, Burk's Behavior Rating Scale
blending - Ans fusing individual sounds, syllables or words into meaningful units
Bonita Blachman - Ans professor at Syracuse University. Has done much research in the field of phonology and reading.Created Elkonian cards (kids who couldn't read couldn't segment sounds as well).
Bottom-Up Theory - Ans emphasis on the subprocesses of the reading act and its contention that many of these subprocesses, such as letter and word identification, must become automatic in order for readers to be fluent. (Alphabetic Phonics)
Bound morphemes - Ans work as meaningful units only in combination with other morphemes (suffixes, bound roots [Latin], and prefixes).
C - Ans consonant
c and g - Ans make a soft sound when followed by i ,e or y
Chall's Six Stages of Reading - Ans Students proceed through predictable stages of learning to read
closed - Ans a syllable that ends in one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short
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