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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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Instructions:
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1. Alphabetic principle" and its relationship to phonemic awareness and phonological awareness in reading






2. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.






3. A score that describes student performance in terms of the statistical performance of an average student at a given grade level. Ranges from K.0 to 12.9 Are not a dependable representation of progress






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






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






6. Reading can be learned as naturally as speaking - reading is focused on constructing meaning from texts using children's books rather than basal or controlled readers - reading is best learned in the context of the group - phonics is taught indirectl






7. 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






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.






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

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






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






12. Multisensory Structured Language






13. Inferential learning of a concept cannot be take for granted! Never assume!






14. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children






15. Provide different ways for kids to take in information or communicate their knowledge back to you. The changes do not alter or lower the standards or expectations of a subject or a test.






16. 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.






17. 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.






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






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






20. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






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






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






23. 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






24. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality






25. 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






26. Is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the






27. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek






28. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile






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






30. 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






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






32. Wide Range Achievement Test






33. Edward III - English again becomes the official language of the state -Chaucer - Canterbury Tales - English borrows from Latin and Greek languages - Anglo-French compounds appear (gentlewomen - gentlemen - faithful - etc) - Latin layer of language -






34. 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.






35. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test






36. 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






37. 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






38. 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






39. 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






40. A group of several test standardized on the same sample population so that results on the several tests are comparable. Example : School achievement tests






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

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42. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program






43. Individual Educational Plan






44. 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






45. Whole body learning






46. Final stable syllable

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

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48. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.






49. Feeling through fingertips






50. 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