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age 1 of 28 CALP PRACTICE EXAM 2025/2026 ACCURATE QUESTIONS WITH CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS | 1100% GUARANTEED PASS phonemic awareness ........ ANSWET....0000 the ability to identify, distinguish and manipulate individual sounds and/or syllables phonetics ....... ANSWEF......04- the study of speech sounds. THINK: 44 speech sounds. Teachers need to provide a correct model for students phonics ....... ANSWET.....0000 INSTRUCTIONAL METHOD that teaches the use of written symbols to represent speech sounds for racing and spelling; taught explicitly, systematic, sequenced; how to blend Pre English ........ ANSWET...seseee Celts conquered by Caesar; Teutonic tribes, Anglo-saxon layer of language age 2 of 28 Anglo-Saxon ....... Answer.........Old English, between 5-12 century( England and SE Scotland grapheme ....... ANSWEF.....0000 letter or group of letters used to spell a phoneme or single speech sound ( -igh, /i/) graph=write=spell Systematic and Cumulative Instruction ....... ANsWe?......0+. MSLE - must follow logical order of language; begin with easy and progress to more difficult material Universal Screening ....... ANSWETL....0008 step taken to determine who is at risk for not meeting grade standards. cognitive assessment ....... Answer.........gathering test scores and data to make a judgement about an individuals ability to perform mental activities ( IQ tests) age 4 of 28 voiced/unvoiced cognates ....... ANsWe?......0+. phonemes pronounce din the same place of the mouth but vary in voicing /k/ /g/ phonology ....... ANSWET....s000 sound system of a language; science of speech sounds;the study of peach sound system, rules and patterns of speech; unconscious rules and patterns of spoken language (sad vs sank) suprasegmental ....... ANSWETF .seceseee aspects of language ( intonations, pitch, juncture, speaking rate) supersize occipital cortex ....... ANSWET......04 vision; receives information first Old English ....... Answer.........Began when Angles, Saxons, Jutes arrived in England. Language of Vikings; Old Norse and Latin also influenced; Teutonic invasion; Christianizing of Britain; 449 AD-1066; decline of Old English as result of Norman Conquest age 5 of 28 phonological awareness ....... ANSWEF....0.06 an umbrella term used to refer to a student's sensitivity to sound structure in language; understanding of internal linguistic structures of words; awareness of onset-rime and individual phonemes naming speed ........ ANsWe?......0+ a speed naming task; administered to pre-readers phoneme .......Answer.........smallest unit of sound in speech /s/ /a/ /d/; individual sound unit in spoken words prosody ....... ANSWEF......04- vocal intonation and meter of spoken language;readers sound as if they are speaking;significant to communicate and comprehend emotions and attitudes Torgensen, Lundber, and Foorman .......Answer.........phonological awareness is a critical factor in dyslexia age 7 of 28 Latin Layer ....... ANSWET......000 used in more formal settings; often found in lit, science in upper elem texts etc; longer than A-S Greek Layer ....... ANSWETL.....008 scientific; roots often combine forms and compounds bound morpheme ....... ANSWET......000 must be attached to other morphemes ( -ed, pre-) chameleon prefix .......Answer.........prefix whose final consonant depends on the initial letter of a root (in- changes to -ir) Clue: when you see double consonants at beginning of word cloze procedure .......Answer......... fill in the blank" reading curriculum-referenced test .......Answer.........ltems taken from curriculum - not tested on material not taught. Good match between assessment and instruction. Can be informal or formal. age 8 of 28 diagnostic evaluation ........ ANsWE?......0++ Used to identify the nature and source of an individual's educational, psychological, or medical difficulties /disabilities in order to facilitate remediation discovery method ....... Answer........socratic method; presentation of new material can be deduced by students dysarthria .......Answer........£nervous system disorder which hinders control over tongue, throat etc ( slurred speech) grade equivalent ....... ANSWETP...sss00 not dependable representation;describes performance of an average student at grade level profile .......Answer.........a@ graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments age 10 of 28 alphabetic principle ....... ANSWET....0.006 the understanding that letters represent speech sounds - letters are meaningless sound-symbol association ....... ANSWET....se0ee knowledge of various sounds in English and their correspondence to letter or letters that represent those sounds Reid Lyon .......Answer.........Nat'l reading Panel; Components of Reading Instruction Components of Reading Instruction ....... Answer.. phonics, fluency, vocab, comprehension Dr. Samuel Orton .......Answer........Father of dyslexia; strephosymbolia; separated disabled readers from other groups ( retardation, brain damage, etc);influenced by Hinshelwood and Alzheimer age 11 of 28 Dr. Rudolf Berlin ....... Answer.........ophthalmologist; introduced the term ‘dyslexia’ synthetic phonics ....... ANSWET......000 teaches individual parts to form whole words; ...synthesize... Anna Gillingham ....... ANSWEF.ssseeee psychologist and teacher; Columbia; worked with Sally Childs and trained teachers; developed a non-traditional approach to teaching reading synthetic instruction ....... ANSWETL cess presents the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole; part of MSLE dyslexia instruction ....... ANSWET.....e00 explicit, systematic, cumulative, structured and multisensory age 13 of 28 Frank Smith ....... ANSWET.....0006 founder of whole language concept Denckla and Rundel ....... ANSWET....0e0e dyslexic students have trouble with rapid naming Wolfe and Bowers ....... ANSWEF coseoeees coined ‘double deficit’ = both phonological processing and rapid naming ; 1986 morpheme ....... ANSWET.....006 smallest meaningful LINGUISTIC unit; can be word or affix morphology ....... ANSWET....00000 the study of how morphemes are combined into words multisensory ....... ANSWE?......0+6 any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modules to receive or express information encode ....... ANSWET....ese0e spell age 14 of 28 formative evaluation ........ ANSWET....0.000 ongoing assessment free morpheme .......Answer.........can stand alone as a word graphic organizers ....... ANsWel.......0 visual displays of information to help study ( outlines, story wheels, etc. informal testing ........ ANSWET......00 structured but not standardized; presentation can be modified to probe responses unlike standardized tests nasal ....... ANSWET...sse0e sound produced when air is blocked in oral cavity and escapes thru nose ( m, n, ng) orthography ....... ANSWET.....e000 the writing system of a language; correct or standardized spelling phonological memory .......Answer.........holding info about sounds/words in memory age 16 of 28 semantics ....... ANSWET......006 aspect of language concerned with meaning. sibilant ....... ANSWET.....s00 hissing sound ( s, x, z, etc) Isabelle Lieberman ....... ANSWET..eeeeeee deficits are from phonological processing or awareness Keith Stanovich ....... ANSWET....s0e 1986 Matthew Effect; deficit in phon. processing NOT visual processing 1991; phonological core deficit Top -Down Approach ....... ANSWET...se0eee whole language; processing of text begins in the mind of readers - meaning brought to print not DERIVED from print Bottom-Up Approach ....... ANsWe?.....00+. proceeds from part to whole; reading driven by text; Flesh, Gough, La Berge, Samuels age 17 of 28 Flesh, Gough, La Berge, Samuels ....... ANSWET....e0e0e names associated with Bottom-up approach method analytic phonics ....... ANSWETF sess present the whole and teaches how to break down automaticity ....... ANSWET......00 ability to respond or react without conscious effort; reading without difficulty decoding syllable .......Answer.........must have vowel sound; unit of sound made by one impulse of voice strephosymbolia ....... ANSWET.esseeee Orton's Term; "twisted symbol" structural analysis ....... ANSWEF.....e0e6 the strategy of looking for affixes, syllables etc. to decode a word summative evaluation .......Answer.........given at end of unit, semester, year age 19 of 28 diacritical marking ....... Answer.........marks that indicate how a sound is produced; like in a dictionary dieresis ....... ANSWET.....008 2 dots over A to indicate short O sound ( father, squash); di=2, 2 dots dyspraxia ....... ANSWET.....0006 sensorimotor disruption; motor signals to muscles ( as for speech) are not easily received etymology ....... ANSWETF....0000 origin and history of a word fluency ....... ANSWET...ese00 translating print to speech ( oral reading) at an appropriate rate which allows reader to comprehend text graphophonemic knowledge ........ ANnsWef......0. recognition of the alphbet and the understanding of sound/symbol relationships and spelling patterns age 20 of 28 inflectional ending /suffix ....... ANSWEF..sss00e letters that combine with base word to express tense, #, mood, or person. ( -s, -ing, - ed) metacognition ....... ANSWET.....000+ deliberate rearrangement or modal transfer of info; awareness of one's own thinking strategies and how they work; being consciously engaged in one's own learning Dr. Pringle Morgan ....... ANSWETF....s0008 1896; Congenital Word Blindness;inability to read despite no apparent injury or illness cognition .......Answer.........ability to think, reason, and solve problems; measured by IQ test; generalize form past experience and use that knowledge to respond to new situations comprehension .making sense of what is read;dependent on 
