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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development

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






3. 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






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






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






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






7. Feeling through fingertips






8. Open syllable






9. Academic Language Therapy Association






10. 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.






11. 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






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






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






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

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






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. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet






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






19. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes






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






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






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






23. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.






24. 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






25. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children






26. 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






27. 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






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






29. 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.






30. 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






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






32. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia






33. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






34. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development






35. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test






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

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37. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.






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






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






40. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






41. Individual Educational Plan






42. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.

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43. International Multisensory Structured Education Council






44. 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






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






46. 1925 - Coined the term "strephosymbolia" which means twisted symbols; Pathologist - neurologist and psychitrist in the US - studied with Dr. Alzheimer in Germany - work influenced by James Hinshelwood






47. 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






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






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






50. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept







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