CALT Vocabulary

Question 1

Core Features of Dyslexia

Answer 1

Diffculty with the following: 
reading words  in isolation, 
accurately decoding unfamiliar words, 
oral reading (slow, 
innacurate or labored without prosody), spelling

Question 2

Secondary Features of Dyslexia

Answer 2

Comprehension
Fluency
Vocabulary
Written Expression

Question 3

Related Disorders of Dyslexia

Answer 3

Dysgraphia
Dyscalculia
ADHD

Question 4

Phonology

Answer 4

The science of speech sounds, or the comparison of speech sound developpment accross diffrent languages.

Question 5

Phonological Awarness

Answer 5

The sensitivity to the sound structure in spoken language. Phonological awarness progresses from rhyming, to syllable counting to detecting first, last and middle sounds to phonemic arareness - segmenting, adding, deleting, and substituting sounds in words

Question 6

Phonemic Awareness

Answer 6

Awareness of the smallest unit of sound in the speech stream and the ability to isolate or manipulate the individual sounds in words. Phonemic awarness is one aspect of the larger category of phonological awarness.

Question 7

Components of language

Answer 7

Phonology (speech sounds)
Morphology - the study of words, how they are formed and their relationship to other words in the same language
Syntax - the rules that govern the ways in whcih words combine to form phrases, clauses and sentences.
Semantics - the study of the meaning of words and sentences
Pragmatics - the relationship between natural language and users of that language. Conversational implicatures of language
Orthography - the writing system in a language

Question 8

Simple View of Reading

Answer 8

Decoding x Language = Skilled Reading

Question 9

Reading Rope

Answer 9

Word Recognition (sub componnents) + Language Comprehension = Skilled Reading

Question 10

Sounds made with two lips

Answer 10

/p/, /b/, /m/ (same for Spanish and English)

Question 11

Sounds made with teeth on the lower lips

Answer 11

/f/, /v/, same for Spanish and English

Question 12

Sounds made with the tongue betwen teeth

Answer 12

/th/ voiced and unvoiced

Question 13

Sounds made with tongue on the ridge behind upper teeth

Answer 13

/l/, /t/, /n/, /s/, r/, /rr/, /d/, z same for English and Spanish except for the /z/ (English only)

Question 14

Sounds made with the tongue touching the roof of the mouth

Answer 14

/y/, /ch/, /j/, /sh/, /zh/

/sh/ and /zh/ are English only - /zh/ explosion

Question 15

Sounds made with the back of the mouth

Answer 15

/g/, /ng/, /k/, Same for Spanish and English

Question 16

Sounds made with the throat

Answer 16

h/ in English, /j/, /x/, in Spanish

Question 17

6 Syllable Types

Answer 17

Open - ends in one vowel ; vowel sound is long
Closed - ends in at least one consonant ; vowel sound is short
VcE - vowel consonant e (silent e)
Vowel Team - two adacent vowels
R-controlled - vowel controlled r (ar, er, ir, ur, or) ; vowel makes unexpected sound
Final Stable Syllable - final cononant combination ; tion, le, sion, ture

Question 18

Spelling patterns and rules

Answer 18

FFLLSS(ZZ) - double the f, l or s in a one syllable word with a short vowel sound
Rabbit rule - double the medial consonant (muffin, pollen, sudden)
Doubling Rule - hop + ed = hopped ; star + ing = starring, red + ish = reddish
Dropping Rule - bake + er = Baker, solve + ed = Solved, blue + ish = blueish
Changing Rule - y to i try + ed = Tried, silly + est = Silliest, penny + less = penniless