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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Edward III - English again becomes the official language of the state -Chaucer - Canterbury Tales - English borrows from Latin and Greek languages - Anglo-French compounds appear (gentlewomen - gentlemen - faithful - etc) - Latin layer of language -






2. Ability to think reason and solve problems. Skills are usually measured by an individual test of intelligence/IQ test. Requires being able to generalize from past experience and use that knowledge to respond to new situations.






3. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.






4. English as a second language






5. A diacritical marking. A wavy line placed over any vowel before r in a combination to indicate the unaccented pronunciation eg letter. The tildes used both in coding words and in a sound picture. When the pronunciation of any unaccented vowel-r combi






6. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.






7. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel






8. 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






9. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time






10. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies






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






12. Taught visual to auditory - Taught auditory to visual - Students should also master blending of sounds into words and as well segmenting whole words into individual sounds.






13. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.






14. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.






15. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS






16. His research in the field of reading was fundamental to the emergence of today's scientific consensus about what reading is - how it works and what it does for the mind.






17. The term is also used for the language now called Old English - spoken and written by the ________ and their descendants in much of what is now England and some of southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century.






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






19. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.






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






21. A significant unit of visual shape. We use the visual shape as to cover not only writing - but also any other shape perceived by the eye which is a visible representation of a unit of speech. A single graphic letter or letter cluster which represents






22. Participate in classroom discussions - make speeches/presentations - use tape records during lectures - read text out loud - create musical jingles - create mnemonics to aid memorization - discuss ideas verbally






23. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT






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






25. Federal Law. Nondiscrimination on the basis of handicap in programs receiving federal $$ - Civil Rights Law - to protect people with disabilities by allowing full participation in the workplace.






26. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept






27. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






28. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound






29. State Board of Eduation






30. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others






31. Whole body learning






32. Nationally known for research on both the prevention and remediation of reading difficulties in young children as well as work on assessment of phonological awareness and reading






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






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. Feeling through fingertips






36. Test of Word Reading Efficiency. Screening test. measures an individual's ability to pronounce printed words accurately and fluently. Generates percentiles - standard scores - age equivalents - and grade equivalents.Decoding - Sight words






37. A spoken or written unit that must have a vowel sound and that may include consonants that precede or follow that vowel. Syllables are units of sound made by one impulse of voice.






38. The teacher musts be adept at individualized teaching based on continual assessment of the student's needs. Content should be mastered to a level of automaticity.






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






40. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)






41. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships

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42. MSLE instruction requires that organization on material follow the logical order of the language. Sequence must begin with the easiest and progress to more difficult material. Each step must be based on prior knowledge.






43. A score that describes student performance in terms of the statistical performance of an average student at a given grade level. Ranges from K.0 to 12.9 Are not a dependable representation of progress






44. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes






45. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






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






47. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program






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






49. Closed syllable






50. r-controlled syllable