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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Individuals with a Disabilities Act
IDEA
Receptive language
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
IMSLEC
2. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Breve
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
[-'le
3. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness
Phonology
Raw score
Reliability
Phonemic Awareness
4. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.
Consonant Digraph
Derived Score
Funding
Mastery level
5. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning
Reading Comprehension Support
RTI
Profile
ALTA
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.
Age equivalent
Digraph
Linguistic Method
ADHD
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.
Linguistic Method
Criterion referenced tests
Diagnostic Teaching
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
8. listening - remembering - and understanding what someone else says.
Orthography
Receptive language
Accent
Letter naming Chart
9. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia
Mastery level
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Battery
10. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.
Stanine Scores
Anna Gillingham
IEP
Rate
11. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.
Chall's Stage 0
SBOE
Multisensory
Visual Processing
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
Battery
Profile
VAKT
CTOPP
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.
Norm-Referenced Test
Diagnostic Teaching
Anglo Saxon
WIATII
14. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.
Chall's Stage 2
Cognition
Academic Achievement Tests
Syllable
15. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.
Standard Scores
Anglo Saxon
WIATII
Base Word
16. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words
Phonological Awareness
Diagnostic Teaching
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Chall's Stage 2
17. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)
VV
Derived Score
Chall's Stage 4
Whole Language
18. Wide Range Achievement Test
Visual Learners
SBOE
VAKT
WRAT
19. Multisensory Structured Language
Old English
James Hinshelwood
MSL
Reading Comprehension Support
20. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
Matthew Effect
Syllable Instruction
Norm-Referenced Test
Consonant Digraph
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
Vowel
Fluency
Chall's Stage 4
Frank Smith
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.
Consonant
SBOE
IEP
Standardized test
23. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.
Whole Language
Syntax
Simultaneous teaching
Chall's Stage 1
24. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)
Texas Education Code 38.003
Middle English
CTOPP
Funding
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
[-'le
Whole Language
Consonant
GORT
26. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)
VC
Syntax
Top-down Reading Approach
Trigraph
27. Multisensory Structured Language Education
Diagnostic Teaching
Battery
MSLE
Syntax
28. International Multisensory Structured Education Council
Syntax
Towre
IMSLEC
Phonemic Awareness
29. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.
IDEA
Universal Screening
Components of Reading Instruction
Ability
30. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.
Middle English
Syllable Instruction
V-e
Latin layer of language
31. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)
Letter naming Chart
Multisensory
Open Syllable
Vowel
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
Visual Learners
Combination
Open Syllable
Chall's Stage 3
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.
Breve
Anglo Saxon
Standardized test
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
34. Closed syllable
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Cedilla
Visual Learners
VC
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.
Keith Stanovich
Syllable Instruction
Oral Language
Frank Smith
36. Individual Educational Plan
Latin layer of language
IEP
Top-down Reading Approach
Quadrigraph
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
Towre
Phonology
Prefix
Closed Syllable
38. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.
Middle English
WRAT
Profile
Sound Symbol Association
39. Open syllable
V >
Prefix
Phoneme
Great Vowel Shift
40. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.
Standard score
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Achievement test
RTI
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.
Syllable Instruction
Standard deviation
Modification
Syllable
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.
ADHD
IMSLEC
Norm-referenced tests
Phoneme
44. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction
Chall's Stage 5
Texas Education Code 28.06
Synthetic Instruction
Closed Syllable
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
Progress Monitoring
Whole Language
Cedilla
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
46. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time
Rate
Vr
Composite Score
Cognitive Assessment
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
Phonemic/ decodable words
WRAT
Diphthong
Texas Education Code 38.003
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
Impulsivity
Orthography
Fluency
Chall's Stage 4
50. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.
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