CALT Principles of Multisensory Structured Language (MSL) Education 2

Question 1

The term multisensory in MSL education refers to the simultaneous engagement of:

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Auditory, visual, and kinesthetic-tactile pathways during instruction

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Multiple academic subjects

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Multiple teachers at one time

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Reading and mathematics together

Question 2

The MSL principle of cumulative instruction means:

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Each new concept builds directly on previously mastered material, with ongoing review

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Instruction covers more content each week

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The instructor uses a cumulative grade at the end of each term

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Students read cumulatively longer texts

Question 3

Which of the following activities is an example of MSL instruction in phonics?

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Simultaneous Oral Spelling where the student says each letter while writing it, then reads the word

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Silently reading a passage and answering comprehension questions

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Listening to a recording of a phonics lesson

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Looking up words in a dictionary

Question 4

The concept of diagnostic teaching in MSL means that the CALT:

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Continuously monitors and adjusts instruction based on student responses during the lesson

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Administers a standardized diagnostic test at the start of every lesson

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Only teaches students who have been formally diagnosed

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Diagnoses the student's learning style and matches instruction to it

Question 5

The synthetic phonics approach as used in MSL instruction teaches students to:

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Blend individual phoneme-grapheme correspondences to decode unfamiliar words

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Memorize whole words by visual pattern

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Analyze whole texts for meaning before decoding individual words

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Guess words using picture and context clues

Question 6

The IDA's definition of structured literacy specifies that it must be all of the following except:

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Discovery-based

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Explicit

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Systematic

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Multisensory