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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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






2. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






3. Vowel - consonant - e syllable






4. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)






5. Multisensory Structured Language






6. International Multisensory Structured Education Council






7. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test






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






9. Multisensory Structured Language Education






10. 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






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






12. 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






13. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness






14. Expects child to learn reading as "naturally" as speech - Uses child's oral language as content for reading - Uses child's oral language as basis for spelling instruction - Children learn to "read" by reading and re-reading "big books" together with

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15. 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.






16. 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.






17. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children






18. 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






19. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






20. 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






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






22. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development

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23. 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)






24. Feeling through fingertips






25. 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






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






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






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






29. 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 -






30. English as a second language






31. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development






32. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.






33. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.






34. 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.






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






36. 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.






37. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.






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






39. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.






40. 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






41. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.






42. 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






43. State Board of Eduation






44. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






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






46. Is one that provides for translating test scores into a statement about the behavior to be expected of a person with that score or their relationship to a specified subject matter. Most tests and quizzes written by school teachers are criterion-refer






47. 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.






48. Reading for Learning "the New" - Expand vocabularies - build background and world knowledge - develop strategic habits

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






50. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.







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