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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

Subject : certifications
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Individuals with a Disabilities Act






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






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






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






5. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning






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






7. 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.






8. listening - remembering - and understanding what someone else says.






9. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia






10. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.






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






12. A group of several test standardized on the same sample population so that results on the several tests are comparable. Example : School achievement tests






13. 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.






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






15. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.






16. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words






17. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






18. Wide Range Achievement Test






19. Multisensory Structured Language






20. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






21. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U






22. One of a class of speech sounds in which sound moving through the vocal tract is constricted or obstructed by the lips - tongue or teeth during articulation.






23. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.






24. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)






25. Gray Oral Reading Test-Fourth Edition Screening test. Provides an efficient and objective measure of growth in oral reading and an aid in the diagnosis of oral reading difficulties Standard Scores - Percentile Ranks - Grade Equivalents - Age Equivale






26. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)






27. Multisensory Structured Language Education






28. International Multisensory Structured Education Council






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






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






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






32. 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






33. 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.






34. Closed syllable






35. 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.






36. Individual Educational Plan






37. 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






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






39. Open syllable






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






41. 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.






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

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43. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.






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






45. 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






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






47. 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






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

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






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

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