ALTA CALT Study Guide Latest Update 2025- 2026 90 Questions and 100% Verified Correct Answers Guaranteed A+
- tests for Phonological Awareness: - CORRECT ANSWER: CTOP- Comprehensive
test of Phonological Process: P.A., Phonological memory and Rapid Naming
PAT-2
- Components of Language: - CORRECT ANSWER: phonological- sounds
semantics- word meaning syntax- grammar pragmatics- rules for communicating
- major patterns in English that indicate where a word will be divided into syllables: -
CORRECT ANSWER: VCCV, VCV, VCCCV, VV
Achievement test- - CORRECT ANSWER: test of student's academic achievement
affix- - CORRECT ANSWER: a letter or group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or root that adds to or changes its meaning or grammatical form and creates a derivative
Alphabetic Principle- - CORRECT ANSWER: understanding that spoken sounds are
represented in print by written letters *Cox-Childs*
Analytic vs. Synthetic Instruction: - CORRECT ANSWER: Analytic Instruction- *Whole Language, instruction that separates the whole into parts to reveal the relationship of the parts
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Synthetic Instruction- *Phonics Instruction, instruction that begins with parts and builds to the whole
Anglo-Saxon (25) - CORRECT ANSWER: short, common every day words
Angular Gyrus- - CORRECT ANSWER: Area of the brain for Visual-Verbal Association
Base word- - CORRECT ANSWER: simplest form of an English word: sit, father
Berlin: - CORRECT ANSWER: coined "dys" meaning difficulty "lexia" pertaining to words
Bessie Stillman: - CORRECT ANSWER: Teacher that developed the teaching manual for multisensory learning
Blending- - CORRECT ANSWER: fusing individual sounds, syllables or words into
meaningful units
Bottom-Up vs. Top-Down Process: - CORRECT ANSWER: Bottom-Up- theory of reading as a process that consists of accurate sequential reading of every word.Comprehension= text driven rather than concept driven
Top-Down- theory of reading where reader uses own experiences/expectations to react to text
Bound Morpheme: - CORRECT ANSWER: work as meaningful units- only in combination with other morphemes, suffixes, bound roots (Latin) and prefixes
Bradley & Bryant: - CORRECT ANSWER: Found that teaching kids sounds in spoken words before going to school significantly improves later reading success.
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