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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. 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
Phonics approach
Attention
Modification
V-e
2. Whole body learning
Kinesthetic
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Modern English
Impulsivity
3. A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of structural linguistics.
Morpheme
VC
Pre-English
Profile
4. 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
Percentile
Samuel T. Orton
[-'le
ALTA
5. Inferential learning of a concept cannot be take for granted! Never assume!
Direct Instruction
Samuel T. Orton
Grade equivalents
Simultaneous teaching
6. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.
Joe Torgesen
Base Word
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
WRAT
7. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships
8. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U
Suffix
Vowel
Cedilla
Standardized test
9. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound
Norm-referenced tests
Whole Language
Norm-Referenced Test
Vowel Digraph
10. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
Digraph
Consonant Digraph
Top-down Reading Approach
Combination
11. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program
Frank Smith
Vowel Digraph
Synthetic Instruction
Progress Monitoring
12. 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.
Percentile
Mathew Effect
Composite Score
Standard deviation
13. Wide Range Achievement Test
Pre-English
WRAT
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
IDEA
14. Federal Law. Nondiscrimination on the basis of handicap in programs receiving federal $$ - Civil Rights Law - to protect people with disabilities by allowing full participation in the workplace.
Accuracy
Impulsivity
Diphthong
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
15. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.
Prefix
Percentile
Accent
Joe Torgesen
16. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes
Morphology
WRAT
Visual Processing
Reliability
17. 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
Great Vowel Shift
Auditory Learners
Open Syllable
Suffix
18. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.
Visual Processing
Phonemic/ decodable words
Great Vowel Shift
Mathew Effect
19. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia
Diagnostic Teaching
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Vowel Digraph
20. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)
Ability
Phonemic Awareness
Trigraph
Modern English
21. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents
CTOPP
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Whole Language
Diphthong
22. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time
Accent
Rate
Simultaneous teaching
IDEA
23. 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
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Standard deviation
Cognitive Assessment
MSLE
24. Taught visual to auditory - Taught auditory to visual - Students should also master blending of sounds into words and as well segmenting whole words into individual sounds.
Tilde
Vr
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Joe Torgesen
25. International Multisensory Structured Education Council
Six basic types of syllables
Semantics
Standard Scores
IMSLEC
26. Multisensory Structured Language
Latin layer of language
Auditory Processing
MSL
Rate
27. 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
Digraph
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Impulsivity
Rate
28. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies
Ability
Components of Reading Instruction
Orthography
Sound Symbol Association
29. Feeling through fingertips
The Norman Conquest
Rate
Tactile
Breve
30. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.
Direct Instruction
Cognition
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Greek layer of language
31. Teutonic invasion and settlement - The Christianizing of Britain - The creation of a national English culture - Danish-English warfare - Political adjustment and cultural assimilation and the decline of Old English as a result of The Norman Conquest.
Dyslexia
Pre-English
Vowel Digraph
Old English
32. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view
33. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words
Consonant
Diagnostic Teaching
Top-down Reading Approach
Phonological Awareness
34. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development
35. Individual Educational Plan
IEP
Digraph
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Chall's Stage 4
36. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.
Modification
Mastery level
Modern English
Achievement test
37. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.
Funding
VV
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Progress Monitoring
38. 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
Matthew Effect
NICHD
Norm-referenced tests
Affix
39. 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.
Vr
Tilde
Anglo Saxon
V-e
40. 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
Criterion referenced tests
GORT
Middle English
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
41. 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
Texas Education Code 38.003
Cognitive Assessment
Joe Torgesen
Standard deviation
42. 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
Macron
Derived Score
Percentile
Syntax
43. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.
Morpheme
Chall's Stage 1
Standard score
Chall's Stage 2
44. listening - remembering - and understanding what someone else says.
Texas Education Code 38.003
Receptive language
Digraph
WRAT
45. Vowel - consonant - e syllable
V-e
Vowel Digraph
Joe Torgesen
The Norman Conquest
46. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality
Chall's Stage 0
Comprehension
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Profile
47. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.
Mastery level
Academic Achievement Tests
Joe Torgesen
James Hinshelwood
48. Multisensory Structured Language Education
Macron
Morphology
Great Vowel Shift
MSLE
49. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.
Stanine Scores
Cognitive Assessment
WRAT
Modification
50. 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
Raw score
MSL
Digraph