CALT Exam Prep (+270 Q&A) complete solution

CALT Exam Prep (+270 Q&A) complete solution

Strephosymbolia =====>means twisted symbols. The first term Orton used for dyslexia.

Phonetics =====>the study of speech sounds in spoken language

Phonological awareness =====>the ability to focus on units of sound in spoken language at the sentence, word, syllable and phoneme levels

Phonemic awareness =====>awareness of speech sounds or phonemes in spoken words

Phonics =====>instruction that connects sounds and letters

Synthetic phonics =====>explicitly teaches individual grapheme-phoneme correspondences before they are blended to form syllables or whole words

Alphabetic principle =====>the understanding that spoken sounds are represented in print by written letters

Consonant =====>blocked / voiced or unvoiced sounds - a class of speech sounds with air flow that is constricted or obstructed

Vowel =====>open and voiced sounds - a class of open speech sounds produced by the passage of air through an open vocal tract