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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Expressive language
Standard score
Joe Torgesen
2. Effective for special needs - Uses all possible senses - tracing - saying - listening - looking - Typically called VAKT - Visual - Auditory - Kinesthetic - Tactile - Can be used with either Phonics or Whole Language
Tilde
Greek layer of language
Multi-Sensory Approach
Auditory Processing
3. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.
Accommodation
Derivative
Academic Achievement Tests
IMSLEC
4. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)
Open Syllable
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Tilde
5. A group of several test standardized on the same sample population so that results on the several tests are comparable. Example : School achievement tests
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Latin layer of language
Auditory Learners
Battery
6. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.
Morpheme
Base Word
Latin layer of language
Semantics
7. 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
[-'le
Progress Monitoring
Grade equivalents
Breve
8. Confirmation and Fluency - Decoding skills - Fluency - additional strategies
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9. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children
Phoneme
Modification
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Achievement test
10. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment
Phonology
Keith Stanovich
Multi-Sensory Approach
NICHD
11. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.
Letter naming Chart
Mastery level
Simultaneous teaching
IDEA
12. 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.
James Hinshelwood
Visual Processing
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Syllable
13. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development
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14. A significant unit of visual shape. We use the visual shape as to cover not only writing - but also any other shape perceived by the eye which is a visible representation of a unit of speech. A single graphic letter or letter cluster which represents
Grade equivalents
Closed Syllable
VC
Grapheme
15. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U
Chall's Stage 0
Vowel
Criterion referenced tests
Combination
16. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test
Mastery level
Impulsivity
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
WIATII
17. 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
The Norman Conquest
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
18. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)
Oral Language
Derivative
Quadrigraph
Mathew Effect
19. 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.
Chall's Stage 1
Frank Smith
VAKT
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
20. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.
Six basic types of syllables
Composite Score
Percentile/ percentile rank
IDEA
21. 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
Stanine Scores
Anna Gillingham
ESL
Battery
22. Supported only by "qualitative research" instead of quantitative research - Teaches "whole words" in word families - Students are not explicitly taught that there is a relationship between letters and sounds for most sounds
Pre-English
Comprehension
Chall's Stage 5
Linguistic Method
23. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Quadrigraph
Frank Smith
Diagnostic Teaching
24. Alphabetic principle" and its relationship to phonemic awareness and phonological awareness in reading
Macron
Accent
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
ADHD
25. 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
Direct Instruction
Middle English
Combination
Norm-Referenced Test
26. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Dyslexia
Phonology
Modification
27. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
NICHD
Latin layer of language
Towre
28. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable
Grapheme
NICHD
Six basic types of syllables
Composite Score
29. 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.
Affix
Phonological Awareness
Oral Language
Vr
30. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.
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31. 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.
Norm-referenced tests
Reading Comprehension Support
Composite Score
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
32. 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.
Standard score
Stanine Scores
The Norman Conquest
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
33. 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.
Cognition
Greek layer of language
IMSLEC
Components of Reading Instruction
34. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Fluency
Progress Monitoring
Sight Words
35. 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.
Rate
ESL
Accommodation
Closed Syllable
36. 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
Criterion referenced tests
Derivative
[-'le
Academic Achievement Tests
37. Paired association between letters and letter sounds; an approach to teaching of reading and spelling that emphasizes sound-symbol relationships - especially in early instruction.
Diagnostic tests
Phonics
Phonological Awareness
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
38. The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send picture or phonic/dictionary notation that indicates a long sound.
Age equivalent
Syllable
Macron
IDEA
39. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.
Mastery level
Sound Symbol Association
Tactile
Funding
40. 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
Direct Instruction
Samuel T. Orton
Accommodation
Curriculum referenced tests
41. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.
Analytic
Texas Education Code 28.06
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Accuracy
42. 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.
Base Word
Diphthong
Anglo Saxon
Phoneme
43. Feeling through fingertips
Progress Monitoring
ESL
Analytic
Tactile
44. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.
Phonics approach
Samuel T. Orton
Syllable Instruction
RTI
45. The curved diacritical mark above a vowel in a sound picture or phonic/dictionary symbol notation that indicates a short sound in a closed syllable in which at least one consonant comes after the vowel in the same syllable.
Cognitive Assessment
Breve
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Visual Learners
46. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.
Universal Screening
VC
Three Layers of Language
Affix
47. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek
Cognition
Three Layers of Language
Attention
Diphthong
48. Making sense of what we read. Comprehension is dependent on good word recognition - fluency - vocabulary - worldly knowledge - and language ability.
Norm-referenced tests
Matthew Effect
Grapheme
Comprehension
49. An ability test is designed to measure either your general intelligence or your mental aptitude in a particular area. For example
Syllable Instruction
Diagnostic Teaching
Anglo Saxon
Ability
50. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
Digraph
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Modern English
Greek layer of language