CALT CALT Reading Fluency and Decoding Development

Question 1

According to Chall's Stages of Reading Development, which stage is characterized by 'learning to read' through decoding and sight word instruction?

Accepted Answer

Stage 1 – Initial Reading and Decoding

Answer

Chall's Stage 1 (Initial Reading and Decoding) spans roughly grades 1–2 and focuses on connecting letters to sounds and building a basic sight word bank.

Question 2

Automaticity in word recognition, as described by LaBerge and Samuels, is important because it:

Accepted Answer

Frees cognitive resources for comprehension by reducing the mental effort required to decode words

Answer

Automaticity allows decoding to occur with minimal cognitive effort, freeing working memory capacity for the higher-level process of comprehension.

Question 3

A CALT assessing reading fluency would primarily evaluate which three components?

Accepted Answer

Accuracy, rate, and prosody

Answer

Reading fluency is defined by the National Reading Panel as comprising accuracy, rate (speed), and prosody (expressive, meaningful reading).

Question 4

Which reading fluency intervention has the strongest research support for students with dyslexia?

Accepted Answer

Repeated oral reading with corrective feedback

Answer

Repeated oral reading with immediate corrective feedback is the most evidence-based fluency intervention, improving accuracy, rate, and prosody for struggling readers.

Question 5

The Orton-Gillingham approach introduces phonogram cards to build automaticity in phoneme-grapheme correspondences. This directly targets which component of fluency?

Accepted Answer

Accuracy at the phoneme and grapheme level

Answer

Phonogram card drills build automatic, accurate mapping of sounds to letters, which is the foundation of accurate decoding essential to reading fluency.

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CALT CALT Reading Fluency and Decoding Development