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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.






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.






4. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.






5. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.






6. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"






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.






8. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words






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.






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.






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






12. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






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






15. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






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.






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.






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.






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






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






21. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.






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






23. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.






24. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile






25. English as a second language






26. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes






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






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.






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






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






31. An ability test is designed to measure either your general intelligence or your mental aptitude in a particular area. For example






32. Multisensory Structured Language Education






33. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning






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






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






36. Individuals with a Disabilities Act






37. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words






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






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






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






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






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






43. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time






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)






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






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






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.






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






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






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.







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