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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

Subject : certifications
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.






2. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound






3. 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






4. The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send picture or phonic/dictionary notation that indicates a long sound.






5. 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.






6. 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.






7. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.






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






9. A test in which a student's performance is compared to that of a norm group. Often used to measure and compare students - schools - districts and states.






10. Whole body learning






11. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet






12. A test in which the results can be used to determine a student's progress toward mastery of a content area. performance is compared to an expected level of mastery in a content area rather that to other student's scores. Such tests usually include qu






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






14. Paired association between letters and letter sounds; an approach to teaching of reading and spelling that emphasizes sound-symbol relationships - especially in early instruction.






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






16. 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






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

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






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






20. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment






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






22. Nationally known for research on both the prevention and remediation of reading difficulties in young children as well as work on assessment of phonological awareness and reading






23. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U






24. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable






25. Multisensory Structured Language






26. 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






27. 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.






28. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






29. A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of structural linguistics.






30. Multisensory Structured Language Education






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






32. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia






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






34. 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






35. 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






36. 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.






37. 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






38. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test






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






40. 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.






41. Involve at least two people. It includes the ability to maintain eye contact - understand body language of others - take turns in a conversation - stick to the subject - and use oral language appropriate for the situation.






42. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel






43. 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






44. 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.






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

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46. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents






47. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile






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






49. Ability to understand and express spoken language






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