CALT CALT Reading Fluency and Decoding Development 4

Question 1

Which approach best describes 'repeated reading' as an instructional fluency technique?

Accepted Answer

Reading the same passage multiple times to increase rate and accuracy

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Reading a new passage silently multiple times before reading aloud

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Reading different passages at the same difficulty level consecutively

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Reading aloud with a partner who corrects every error immediately

Question 2

A student consistently omits the inflectional suffix '-ed' when reading past-tense verbs aloud. Which phonological skill is most likely underdeveloped?

Accepted Answer

Morpheme awareness and decoding of inflectional endings

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Phoneme blending

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Sight word recognition

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Syllable segmentation of multisyllabic words

Question 3

What does the Hasbrouck and Tindal oral reading fluency norms primarily measure?

Accepted Answer

Words correct per minute benchmarks by grade and time of year

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Reading comprehension percentile scores

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Phonemic awareness developmental milestones

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Silent reading rate for expository texts

Question 4

The Ehri phase model suggests that a reader who uses full alphabetic mapping for every phoneme-grapheme correspondence is in which phase?

Accepted Answer

Full alphabetic

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Pre-alphabetic

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Partial alphabetic

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Consolidated alphabetic

Question 5

Which error pattern most strongly signals a deficit in orthographic mapping rather than phonological decoding?

Accepted Answer

Substituting visually similar words (e.g., 'horse' for 'house')

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Sounding out each phoneme slowly but accurately

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Skipping unknown multisyllabic words entirely

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Reversing letter order in nonsense words

Question 6

Which syllable type contains a vowel followed by a consonant and then a silent 'e' at the end of the syllable?

Accepted Answer

Vowel-consonant-e (magic e) syllable

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Closed syllable

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Open syllable

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R-controlled syllable

Question 7

A student reads 98% of words correctly but at 60 WCPM (well below grade-level norms). The most appropriate instructional target is:

Accepted Answer

Reading fluency through rate-building practice on independent-level texts

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Phonemic awareness at the isolation level

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Phonics instruction for vowel teams

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Comprehension strategy instruction for inferencing