CALT Exam Prep 2024 Best Revision Study Material

CALT Exam Prep 2024 Best Revision Study Material

1. Strephosymbolia: means twisted symbols. The first term Orton used for dyslexia. 2. phonetics: the study of speech sounds in spoken language 3. phonological awareness: the ability to focus on units of sound in spoken lan- guage at the sentence, word, syllable and phoneme levels 4. phonemic awareness: awareness of speech sounds or phonemes in spoken words 5. phonics: instruction that connects sounds and letters 6. synthetic phonics: explicitly teaches individual grapheme-phoneme correspon- dences before they are blended to form syllables or whole words 7. alphabetic principle: the understanding that spoken sounds are represented in print by written letters 8. consonant: blocked / voiced or unvoiced sounds - a class of speech sounds with air flow that is constricted or obstructed 9. vowel: open and voiced sounds - a class of open speech sounds produced by the passage of air through an open vocal tract 10. phonology: the rules that determine how sounds are used in spoken language 11. fluency: reading with rapidity and automaticity 12. prosody: the rhythmic flow of oral reading 13. pragmatics: set of rules that dictate communicative behavior and use of lan- guage, rules we communicate by 14. syntax: sentence structure, grammar, usage 15. semantics: content of language, used to express knowledge of the world around us - meaning 16. phoneme: smallest unit of sound in a syllable 17. spelling: sound to symbol / phoneme to grapheme, connect grapheme to phoneme 18. orthography: the spelling of written language 19. orthographic memory: memory of letter patterns and word spellings 20. metalinguistics: awareness of language as an entity 21. guided discovery: a method of leading students to new learning through ques- tioning 22. Heuristic: means to discover by demonstration 23. grapheme: a letter or letter cluster that represents a single speech sound 24. decoding: word recognition in which the phonetic code is broken down to determine a word 25. blending: fusing individual sounds, syllables or words into meaningful units 26. reading: symbol to sound / grapheme to phoneme 27. morpheme: the smallest meaningful unit of language - a suffix, prefix, root or stem such as awe, dis, in, inter, or word part such as cat, man. etc. Knowledge of word meaning, rapid word recognition, and spelling ability greatly depend on knowledge of word structure at the level of morphemes. 28. morphology: the study of word formation patterns, meaningful units that make words