ALTA Exam Review Questions and CORRECT ANSWER s – Updated Study Guide
Question : Dyslexia***
CORRECT ANSWER : adequate intelligence yet trouble
with reading, writing and spelling.
Question : Strephosymbolia***
CORRECT ANSWER : means twisted symbols. The first
term Orton used for dyslexia.
Question : phonetics
CORRECT ANSWER : the study of speech sounds in
spoken language
Question : phonological awareness
CORRECT ANSWER : the ability to focus on units of sound
in spoken language at the sentence, word, syllable and phoneme levels
Question : phonemic awareness
CORRECT ANSWER : awareness of speech sounds or
phonemes in spoken words
Question : phonics
CORRECT ANSWER : instruction that connects sounds and
letters
Question : intensive phonics***
CORRECT ANSWER : Intensive phonics refers to the early
focused emphasis on teaching and practicing sound/symbol relationships.
Question : synthetic phonics***
CORRECT ANSWER : explicitly teaches individual
grapheme-phoneme correspondences before they are blended to form syllables or whole words Synthetic phonics refers to teaching individual sound/symbol relationships, then blending those learned into words
Question : alphabetic principle
CORRECT ANSWER : the understanding that spoken
sounds are represented in print by written letters
Question : consonant
CORRECT ANSWER : blocked / voiced or unvoiced sounds
- a class of speech sounds with air flow that is constricted or
obstructed
Question : vowel
CORRECT ANSWER : open and voiced sounds - a class of
open speech sounds produced by the passage of air through an open vocal tract
Question : phonology, morphology, syntax***
CORRECT ANSWER : form of language
Question : phonology***
CORRECT ANSWER : the rules that determine how sounds
are used in spoken language
Question : fluency***
CORRECT ANSWER : reading with rapidity and
automaticity
Question : prosody***
CORRECT ANSWER : the rhythmic flow of oral reading
Question : pragmatics***
CORRECT ANSWER : set of rules that dictate
communicative behavior and use of language, rules we communicate by
Question : syntax***
CORRECT ANSWER : sentence structure, grammar, usage
Question : semantics***
CORRECT ANSWER : content of language, used to express
knowledge of the world around us