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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test






2. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality






3. 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






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

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5. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children






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






7. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






8. 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.






9. State Board of Eduation






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






11. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view

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12. 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






13. The ancient Britons (Celts) conquered by Caesar in 54 c.e. - Celtic and Latin languages co-exist - Teutonic tribes (Jutes - Angles and Saxons invade) - Anglo-Saxon layer of language






14. A standardized test designed to efficiently measure the amount of knowledge and/or skill a person has acquired - usually as a result of classroom instruction. Such testing produces a statistical profile used as a measurement to evaluate student learn






15. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.






16. 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






17. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.






18. Inferential learning of a concept cannot be take for granted! Never assume!






19. 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






20. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.

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






22. Vowel - consonant - e syllable






23. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.






24. 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






25. listening - remembering - and understanding what someone else says.






26. Academic Language Therapy Association






27. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test






28. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.






29. r-controlled syllable






30. 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.






31. Feeling through fingertips






32. Whole body learning






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






34. 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






35. 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.






36. 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)






37. 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.






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






39. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






40. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek






41. 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.






42. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.






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






44. 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






45. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.






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






47. 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.






48. 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






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

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50. International Multisensory Structured Education Council