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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.






2. 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






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






4. 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.






5. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound






6. 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






7. A standardized test designed to efficiently measure the amount of knowledge and/or skill a person has acquired - usually as a result of classroom instruction. Such testing produces a statistical profile used as a measurement to evaluate student learn






8. The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send picture or phonic/dictionary notation that indicates a long sound.






9. 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






10. A pattern of letters (found in a single syllable) which occurs frequently together. The pronunciation of at least one of the component parts is unexpected or the letters stand in an unexpected sequence ( ar - er - ir - or - us - qu - wh)






11. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






12. 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.






13. 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.






14. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






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






16. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.






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






18. Statistical measure of the degree of dispersion in distribution of scores. Measures spread of a set of data around mean of the data. The more widely the values are spread out - the larger the standard deviation.






19. A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that is different that the base word or root.






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






21. A districts dyslexia program is considered part of the basic - required curriculum. Therefore - state compensatory education funds can only be used to provide programs - projects - activities - and materials that supplement that district's regular dy






22. Selective focus on what is important while screening out distractions.






23. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






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






25. Alphabetic principle" and its relationship to phonemic awareness and phonological awareness in reading






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






27. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.






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






29. Closed syllable






30. The curved line placed beneath c to indicate its "soft" or (s) pronunciation - as opposed to its hard or (k) pronunciation. Students use the coding on c before the letters e - i - or y (the softeners) - to remind themselves to pronounced the (s) soun






31. The curved diacritical mark above a vowel in a sound picture or phonic/dictionary symbol notation that indicates a short sound in a closed syllable in which at least one consonant comes after the vowel in the same syllable.






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






33. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development






34. International Multisensory Structured Education Council






35. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test






36. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.






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






38. Final stable syllable

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39. 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.






40. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.






41. Confirmation and Fluency - Decoding skills - Fluency - additional strategies

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






43. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.






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






46. Is a type of test - assessment - or evaluation which yields an estimate of the position of the tested individual in a predefined population - with respect to the trait being measured. This estimate is derived from the analysis of test scores and poss






47. Supported only by "qualitative research" instead of quantitative research - Teaches "whole words" in word families - Students are not explicitly taught that there is a relationship between letters and sounds for most sounds






48. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"






49. 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






50. Proceeds from the whole to the part - suggests that processing of a text begins in the mind of the readers. Meaning is brought to print not derived from print.







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