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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.
Phoneme
Morpheme
Anna Gillingham
Top-down Reading Approach
2. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.
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3. A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of structural linguistics.
Raw score
Semantics
[-'le
Morpheme
4. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.
ESL
James Hinshelwood
Prefix
Accommodation
5. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.
Criterion referenced tests
Chall's Stage 4
Tilde
Orthography
6. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"
WRAT
Adolf Kusmaul
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
Analytic
7. 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.
Visual Learners
Accuracy
Combination
Affix
8. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
CTOPP
Phonics
Accent
9. Tests used to identify the nature and source of an individual's educational - psychological - or medical difficulties or disabilities in order to facilitate correction or remediation.
Diphthong
Diagnostic tests
Whole Language
Auditory Processing
10. 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
Prefix
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Age equivalent
11. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U
Semantics
Criterion-Referenced Test
Phonemic/ decodable words
Vowel
12. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)
Fluency
VV
Consonant Digraph
Semantics
13. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.
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14. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes
Standard deviation
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Derivative
15. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
Digraph
Impulsivity
Raw score
Synthetic Instruction
16. A type of derived score such that the distribution of these scores for a specified population has convenient known values for the mean and standard deviation.
Components of Reading Instruction
CTOPP
Chall's Stage 1
Standard Scores
17. 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.
Academic Achievement Tests
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Consonant
Open Syllable
18. 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.
Auditory Processing
NICHD
Standard deviation
Keith Stanovich
19. 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
WIATII
Oral Language
Tactile
Percentile/ percentile rank
20. A term coined by Stanovich to describe a phenomenon observed in findings of cumulative advantage for children who read well and have good vocabulary and cumulative disadvantage for those who have inadequate vocabularies and read less and thus have lo
Reliability
Composite Score
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Matthew Effect
21. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.
Raw score
Multisensory
Percentile
Linguistic Method
22. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.
Composite Score
Latin layer of language
Standard score
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
23. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.
Auditory Processing
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Syllable Instruction
Curriculum referenced tests
24. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile
Affix
Suffix
Three Layers of Language
VAKT
25. English as a second language
ESL
Reliability
Visual Processing
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
26. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes
Morphology
Synthetic Instruction
Oral Language
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
27. 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
NICHD
Percentile
Reliability
Norm-Referenced Test
28. 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.
Great Vowel Shift
Three Layers of Language
Cognition
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
29. 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
Composite Score
Accommodation
V >
James Hinshelwood
30. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction
Chall's Stage 4
Universal Screening
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Texas Education Code 28.06
31. An ability test is designed to measure either your general intelligence or your mental aptitude in a particular area. For example
Ability
Progress Monitoring
Anglo Saxon
Old English
32. Multisensory Structured Language Education
MSLE
Visual Processing
Pre-English
Sight Words
33. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning
Modern English
Phonemic/ decodable words
Reading Comprehension Support
Mastery level
34. 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
Anna Gillingham
Vowel
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Curriculum referenced tests
35. Was a pivotal event in English history. It largely removed the native ruling class - replacing it with a foreign - French-speaking monarchy - aristocracy - and clerical hierarchy. This - in turn - brought about a transformation of the English languag
Whole Language
The Norman Conquest
WIATII
V-e
36. Individuals with a Disabilities Act
IDEA
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Vowel Digraph
Mathew Effect
37. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words
Auditory Learners
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Phonological Awareness
Direct Instruction
38. Children may be physical and socially immature - may be awkward in social situations - may have difficulty reading social cues - may have trouble finding the right words - stammering. - may feel anxious in school
Phonics
Composite Score
Vr
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
39. 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
Chall's Stage 3
Phonics approach
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Criterion referenced tests
40. Inferential learning of a concept cannot be take for granted! Never assume!
Direct Instruction
Multisensory
IMSLEC
Combination
41. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.
Analytic
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Letter naming Chart
Visual Learners
42. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Modern English
Cognitive Assessment
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
43. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time
Rate
Percentile/ percentile rank
ADHD
WRAT
44. 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)
Joe Torgesen
Chall's Stage 3
Combination
Multisensory
45. 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
Percentile/ percentile rank
Tilde
Cedilla
Towre
46. Take frequent study breaks - move around to learn new things - work at a standing position - chew gum while standing - listen to music while studying - skim material first then read in detail
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Letter naming Chart
Digraph
Criterion-Referenced Test
47. Stress or emphasis on one syllable in a word or on one or more words in a phrase or sentence. The accented part is spoken louder - longer - and/or in a higher tone. The speaker's mouth opens wider while saying an accented syllable.
Accent
Linguistic Method
Curriculum referenced tests
Impulsivity
48. State Board of Education Rule - District Board of Trustees must make sure dyslexia procedures are given to the district. - District must use SBOE approved strategies for screening and treating dyslexia
Accent
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
VV
Linguistic Method
49. 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
GORT
Chall's Stage 0
Tilde
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
50. 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.
Standard deviation
Vr
Simultaneous teaching
Phonological Awareness
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