FREE CALT Principles of Multisensory Structured Language (MSL) Education Questions and Answers

Question 1

When a therapist has a student say the sound /k/, trace the letter 'c' in sand, and look at the letter card simultaneously, which MSL principle is being demonstrated?

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Simultaneous, Multisensory

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Diagnostic and Prescriptive

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Systematic and Cumulative

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Direct Instruction

Question 2

An MSL curriculum that teaches short vowels before vowel-consonant-e, and teaches individual graphemes before syllable division patterns, is adhering to which principle?

Accepted Answer

Systematic and Cumulative

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Analytic and Synthetic

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Diagnostic and Prescriptive

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Simultaneous, Multisensory

Question 3

During a lesson, a therapist notices a student consistently misspelling 'jump' as 'gump'. The therapist immediately stops, reviews the sounds for /j/ and /g/, and provides practice discriminating between them. This is an example of:

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Diagnostic teaching

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Indirect instruction

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Cumulative review

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Synthetic phonics

Question 4

The explicit and unambiguous teaching of all concepts with continuous student-teacher interaction is best described by which MSL principle?

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Direct Instruction

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Student-led discovery

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Cognitive learning

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Automated instruction

Question 5

In an MSL lesson, blending the sounds /sh/ /i/ /p/ to read the word 'ship' is an example of a ________ approach.

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synthetic

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analytic

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holistic

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diagnostic

Question 6

The ultimate goal of teaching decoding and spelling skills to automaticity in an MSL program is to:

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free up cognitive resources for reading comprehension.

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improve the student's handwriting and fine motor skills.

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ensure the student can win a spelling bee.

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allow the student to read faster than their peers.