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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. International Multisensory Structured Education Council
Texas Education Code 28.06
IMSLEC
Diagnostic Teaching
MSL
2. 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
Mathew Effect
Norm-Referenced Test
Trigraph
Criterion referenced tests
3. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet
Achievement test
Combination
GORT
Letter naming Chart
4. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.
Visual Learners
Universal Screening
Phonemic Awareness
Curriculum referenced tests
5. A word that is immediately recognized as a whole and does not require decoding to identify. A sight word may or may not be phonetically regular.
Sight Words
Auditory Processing
Syllable
Analytic
6. 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.
Diagnostic tests
Great Vowel Shift
James Hinshelwood
Tactile
7. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek
Greek layer of language
Base Word
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Three Layers of Language
8. Individuals with a Disabilities Act
IDEA
Standard deviation
Samuel T. Orton
Battery
9. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Greek layer of language
Synthetic Instruction
Prefix
10. State Board of Eduation
SBOE
Accommodation
Latin layer of language
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
11. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel
Composite Score
Digraph
Impulsivity
Chall's Stage 5
12. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U
ESL
Vowel
VC
Synthetic Instruction
13. 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.
Phonics
Profile
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
The Norman Conquest
14. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes
GORT
Standardized test
Morphology
Kinesthetic
15. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)
Prefix
VV
Phonology
Funding
16. 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.
Sound Symbol Association
Anglo Saxon
Frank Smith
Criterion-Referenced Test
17. Open syllable
V >
Norm-Referenced Test
Whole Language
Vowel Digraph
18. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
James Hinshelwood
Base Word
Phonological Awareness
19. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Texas Education Code 28.06
Derived Score
Sound Symbol Association
20. 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
Norm-Referenced Test
Linguistic Method
Chall's Stage 1
Three Layers of Language
21. Academic Language Therapy Association
V >
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Diphthong
ALTA
22. A districts dyslexia program is considered part of the basic - required curriculum. Therefore - state compensatory education funds can only be used to provide programs - projects - activities - and materials that supplement that district's regular dy
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Funding
Rate
Diagnostic tests
23. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.
Visual Learners
Chall's Stage 4
Multisensory
Receptive language
24. Alphabetic principle" and its relationship to phonemic awareness and phonological awareness in reading
Direct Instruction
Chall's Stage 0
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
25. A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of structural linguistics.
Modern English
Synthetic Instruction
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Morpheme
26. 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
Chall's Stage 5
NICHD
The Norman Conquest
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
27. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Universal Screening
Great Vowel Shift
Standard score
ADHD
28. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Diphthong
Six basic types of syllables
NICHD
VAKT
29. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"
SBOE
Adolf Kusmaul
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
30. Individual Educational Plan
IEP
Percentile
Phonology
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
31. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.
Curriculum referenced tests
James Hinshelwood
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Progress Monitoring
32. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test
Achievement test
VV
GORT
Reliability
33. 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.
Accommodation
Battery
The Norman Conquest
GORT
34. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.
Texas Education Code 28.06
Visual Processing
Phonics approach
Orthography
35. 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.
Chall's Stage 4
Closed Syllable
Standard deviation
Syllable
36. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.
Mastery level
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Standardized test
37. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)
Affix
Open Syllable
Visual Learners
Morpheme
38. The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send picture or phonic/dictionary notation that indicates a long sound.
Stanine Scores
Progress Monitoring
Phonological Awareness
Macron
39. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability
Expressive language
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Analytic
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
40. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.
Analytic
Affix
Percentile/ percentile rank
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
41. Whole body learning
Tactile
Phonemic Awareness
Kinesthetic
GORT
42. Wide Range Achievement Test
WRAT
Pre-English
Middle English
Standard deviation
43. English as a second language
Stanine Scores
Anglo Saxon
ESL
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
44. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program
Standard deviation
GORT
Synthetic Instruction
Digraph
45. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.
Greek layer of language
Whole Language
Auditory Learners
Raw score
46. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS
Middle English
Pre-English
Mathew Effect
Ability
47. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)
Adolf Kusmaul
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Derived Score
ALTA
48. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound
V-e
Closed Syllable
Modification
Vowel Digraph
49. Feeling through fingertips
Tactile
Age equivalent
WRAT
Digraph
50. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others
Phonological Awareness
Expressive language
Kinesthetic
Standardized test