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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment






2. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.






3. A word that is immediately recognized as a whole and does not require decoding to identify. A sight word may or may not be phonetically regular.






4. Reading can be learned as naturally as speaking - reading is focused on constructing meaning from texts using children's books rather than basal or controlled readers - reading is best learned in the context of the group - phonics is taught indirectl






5. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction






6. Comprehensive end-of-year exams - reflecting the specific subject matter outlines in the curriculum.






7. Teutonic invasion and settlement - The Christianizing of Britain - The creation of a national English culture - Danish-English warfare - Political adjustment and cultural assimilation and the decline of Old English as a result of The Norman Conquest.






8. Use - pictures - charts - maps - graphs - etc...clear view of teacher - color to highlight important text - ask teacher to provide handouts - illustrate ideas as pictures before writing them down - use multi media






9. State Board of Education Rule - District Board of Trustees must make sure dyslexia procedures are given to the district. - District must use SBOE approved strategies for screening and treating dyslexia






10. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.






11. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept






12. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.

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13. Whole body learning






14. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy






15. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable






16. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view

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17. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.






18. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development






19. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness






20. Closed syllable






21. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.






22. Vowel - consonant - e syllable






23. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder






24. State Board of Eduation






25. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928






26. A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of structural linguistics.






27. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.






28. Expects child to learn reading as "naturally" as speech - Uses child's oral language as content for reading - Uses child's oral language as basis for spelling instruction - Children learn to "read" by reading and re-reading "big books" together with

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29. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.






30. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.






31. Making sense of what we read. Comprehension is dependent on good word recognition - fluency - vocabulary - worldly knowledge - and language ability.






32. Most soundly supported by research for effective instruction in beginning reading - Must be explicitly taught - Must be systematically organized and sequenced - Must include learning how to blend sounds together






33. Reading for Learning "the New" - Expand vocabularies - build background and world knowledge - develop strategic habits

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34. A term coined by Stanovich to describe a phenomenon observed in findings of cumulative advantage for children who read well and have good vocabulary and cumulative disadvantage for those who have inadequate vocabularies and read less and thus have lo






35. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words






36. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents






37. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test






38. Was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in England between 1350 and 1500.[1] This was first studied by Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) - a Danish linguist and Anglicist - who coined the term. Because English spellin






39. 1904 - reported 2 cases of "congenital word blindness" - called for schools to establish procedures for screening as well as appropriate teaching of those that were identified with congenital word-blindness






40. Academic Language Therapy Association






41. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.






42. A morpheme attached to the end of a word that creates a word with a different form or use. Suffixes include inflected forms indicating tense - number - person and comparatives.






43. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.






44. 1930 - Psychologist and teacher in New York; along with Samuel T. Orton at Columbia University - developed a non-traditional approach to teaching written language skills. Trained one teacher at a time. began working with Sally Childs and trained 50 t






45. An ability test is designed to measure either your general intelligence or your mental aptitude in a particular area. For example






46. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability






47. Is one that provides for translating test scores into a statement about the behavior to be expected of a person with that score or their relationship to a specified subject matter. Most tests and quizzes written by school teachers are criterion-refer






48. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children






49. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






50. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language