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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies
Syntax
Universal Screening
Components of Reading Instruction
Chall's Stage 4
2. 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.
Achievement test
Sight Words
GORT
Consonant Digraph
3. 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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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.
Standard Scores
Trigraph
Attention
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
5. 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
Criterion referenced tests
Accent
Linguistic Method
Funding
6. The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send picture or phonic/dictionary notation that indicates a long sound.
Three Layers of Language
RTI
Chall's Stage 2
Macron
7. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.
James Hinshelwood
Rate
Latin layer of language
Chall's Stage 4
8. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.
Multi-Sensory Approach
Quadrigraph
Norm-Referenced Test
Age equivalent
9. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)
Three Layers of Language
Combination
Macron
VV
10. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT
Diagnostic tests
Standardized test
ADHD
Universal Screening
11. Effective for special needs - Uses all possible senses - tracing - saying - listening - looking - Typically called VAKT - Visual - Auditory - Kinesthetic - Tactile - Can be used with either Phonics or Whole Language
Norm-referenced tests
Universal Screening
Multi-Sensory Approach
Chall's Stage 2
12. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.
ADHD
Progress Monitoring
Auditory Learners
Chall's Stage 2
13. 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
Achievement test
Direct Instruction
Chall's Stage 4
James Hinshelwood
14. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.
ESL
Syntax
Ability
Composite Score
15. 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
Grapheme
Norm-Referenced Test
Derivative
Vowel
16. 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
Analytic
Phonics approach
Quadrigraph
MSLE
17. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel
Adolf Kusmaul
Cedilla
Consonant
Impulsivity
18. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction
Reliability
Receptive language
Accommodation
Texas Education Code 28.06
19. 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)
SBOE
Combination
Stanine Scores
Simultaneous teaching
20. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.
Dyslexia
MSLE
Stanine Scores
Closed Syllable
21. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.
Phonology
Syllable Instruction
Letter naming Chart
Affix
22. 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
Visual Learners
Phonological Awareness
Tilde
Grade equivalents
23. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.
Samuel T. Orton
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Visual Processing
Phoneme
24. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Cognition
Synthetic Instruction
NICHD
Derived Score
25. Comprehensive end-of-year exams - reflecting the specific subject matter outlines in the curriculum.
Affix
Accommodation
Curriculum referenced tests
Derived Score
26. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Semantics
IDEA
VV
27. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.
Profile
Anglo Saxon
NICHD
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
28. 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
Achievement test
Progress Monitoring
Phonics approach
Raw score
29. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Percentile/ percentile rank
Rate
Texas Education Code 38.003
30. 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
Norm-referenced tests
Joe Torgesen
Universal Screening
Standardized test
31. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes
MSLE
Derivative
Top-down Reading Approach
Synthetic Instruction
32. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words
Consonant Digraph
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
[-'le
Morpheme
33. 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.
Tactile
Syllable Instruction
Top-down Reading Approach
Grade equivalents
34. Vowel - consonant - e syllable
Matthew Effect
Anna Gillingham
V-e
Quadrigraph
35. Academic Language Therapy Association
Expressive language
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
ALTA
Analytic
36. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept
ADHD
Frank Smith
Ability
Impulsivity
37. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents
Vowel Digraph
CTOPP
Composite Score
Phonology
38. A test in which a student's performance is compared to that of a norm group. Often used to measure and compare students - schools - districts and states.
Multisensory
Letter naming Chart
Norm-referenced tests
Fluency
39. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test
RTI
Six basic types of syllables
Reliability
SBOE
40. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.
Standard score
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
IMSLEC
Universal Screening
41. 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.
Syllable Instruction
Suffix
Anna Gillingham
Fluency
42. 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.
Percentile
Linguistic Method
Auditory Learners
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
43. A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of structural linguistics.
Cognitive Assessment
Accommodation
Phonemic Awareness
Morpheme
44. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.
Mastery level
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Stanine Scores
45. The process of systematically gathering test scores and related data in order to make judgement about an individuals ability to perform various mental activities involved in the processing - acquisition - retention - conceptualization - and organizat
Adolf Kusmaul
Raw score
IMSLEC
Cognitive Assessment
46. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.
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47. English as a second language
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Norm-Referenced Test
Derivative
ESL
48. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
VAKT
Quadrigraph
ADHD
49. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)
Standard deviation
Old English
Orthography
Quadrigraph
50. 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
Matthew Effect
Modern English
Great Vowel Shift
Sight Words
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