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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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






2. The teacher musts be adept at individualized teaching based on continual assessment of the student's needs. Content should be mastered to a level of automaticity.






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

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4. 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






5. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language






6. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






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






8. Whole body learning






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






10. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development






11. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






12. Individuals with a Disabilities Act






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






14. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.






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






16. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test






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






18. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U






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






20. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.






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






22. Selective focus on what is important while screening out distractions.






23. Use - pictures - charts - maps - graphs - etc...clear view of teacher - color to highlight important text - ask teacher to provide handouts - illustrate ideas as pictures before writing them down - use multi media






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






25. 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






26. 1904 - reported 2 cases of "congenital word blindness" - called for schools to establish procedures for screening as well as appropriate teaching of those that were identified with congenital word-blindness






27. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek






28. The curved line placed beneath c to indicate its "soft" or (s) pronunciation - as opposed to its hard or (k) pronunciation. Students use the coding on c before the letters e - i - or y (the softeners) - to remind themselves to pronounced the (s) soun






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






30. 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






31. 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.






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






33. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.






34. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability






35. 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.






36. 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.






37. Alphabetic principle" and its relationship to phonemic awareness and phonological awareness in reading






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 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.






40. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder






41. A morpheme attached to the end of a word that creates a word with a different form or use. Suffixes include inflected forms indicating tense - number - person and comparatives.






42. 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.






43. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.






44. 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






45. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS






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






47. 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






48. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment






49. 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






50. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound






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