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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. State Board of Eduation






2. Teutonic invasion and settlement - The Christianizing of Britain - The creation of a national English culture - Danish-English warfare - Political adjustment and cultural assimilation and the decline of Old English as a result of The Norman Conquest.






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

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4. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.






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






6. 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.






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






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






9. 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






10. Vowel - consonant - e syllable






11. Feeling through fingertips






12. 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






13. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"






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






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






16. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.






17. Multisensory Structured Language






18. Set of principles that dictate the sequence and function of words in a sentence in order to convey meaning - must include grammar - sentence types - and mechanics of language






19. The ancient Britons (Celts) conquered by Caesar in 54 c.e. - Celtic and Latin languages co-exist - Teutonic tribes (Jutes - Angles and Saxons invade) - Anglo-Saxon layer of language






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






21. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek






22. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability






23. 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.






24. Comprehensive end-of-year exams - reflecting the specific subject matter outlines in the curriculum.






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






26. 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.






27. 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.






28. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.






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






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






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. The percentile score on - for example - a test is the score that represents the percent of other scores to or lower than is. If a student performs in the 85% of his or her class - it means the 85% of the other scores of students who also took the tes






33. 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.






34. Multisensory Structured Language Education






35. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






36. 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






37. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.






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






39. Individual Educational Plan






40. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development

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






42. 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






43. 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






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

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

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46. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words






47. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.






48. Open syllable






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






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