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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. 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
Receptive language
Synthetic Instruction
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
ESL
2. Closed syllable
Battery
Adolf Kusmaul
Keith Stanovich
VC
3. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.
MSLE
Phoneme
Orthography
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
4. 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
RTI
Battery
VV
Grapheme
5. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.
Direct Instruction
VC
Standard Scores
Standard score
6. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
Impulsivity
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
GORT
7. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.
Phonemic/ decodable words
Chall's Stage 3
Diagnostic tests
MSL
8. 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 -
Middle English
Stanine Scores
Vowel Digraph
Sound Symbol Association
9. A group of several test standardized on the same sample population so that results on the several tests are comparable. Example : School achievement tests
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Chall's Stage 5
Joe Torgesen
Battery
10. Open syllable
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Reliability
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Components of Reading Instruction
11. The percentile score on - for example - a test is the score that represents the percent of other scores to or lower than is. If a student performs in the 85% of his or her class - it means the 85% of the other scores of students who also took the tes
Percentile/ percentile rank
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Consonant
VC
12. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.
WRAT
ESL
Fluency
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
13. 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
Grade equivalents
Composite Score
Orthography
The Norman Conquest
14. 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
Universal Screening
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Impulsivity
15. State Board of Eduation
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Derived Score
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
SBOE
16. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children
Greek layer of language
Visual Learners
Stanine Scores
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
17. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program
Chall's Stage 0
Letter naming Chart
GORT
Synthetic Instruction
18. Was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in England between 1350 and 1500.[1] This was first studied by Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) - a Danish linguist and Anglicist - who coined the term. Because English spellin
Sound Symbol Association
Great Vowel Shift
Norm-Referenced Test
Comprehension
19. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Multisensory
Phoneme
Profile
20. Stress or emphasis on one syllable in a word or on one or more words in a phrase or sentence. The accented part is spoken louder - longer - and/or in a higher tone. The speaker's mouth opens wider while saying an accented syllable.
Open Syllable
Percentile
Accent
IMSLEC
21. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)
Morphology
Quadrigraph
Consonant Digraph
Curriculum referenced tests
22. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.
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23. 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
Syntax
Auditory Learners
IDEA
Samuel T. Orton
24. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)
Accent
Analytic
Attention
Trigraph
25. Set of principles that dictate the sequence and function of words in a sentence in order to convey meaning - must include grammar - sentence types - and mechanics of language
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
ESL
Simultaneous teaching
Syntax
26. 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
Visual Learners
Great Vowel Shift
Linguistic Method
Anglo Saxon
27. 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.
Breve
Dyslexia
Academic Achievement Tests
VAKT
28. 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.
Keith Stanovich
Old English
Analytic
Ability
29. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel
Breve
Impulsivity
Ability
IDEA
30. 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
Chall's Stage 1
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Phonemic Awareness
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
31. Vowel - consonant - e syllable
Syntax
Quadrigraph
SBOE
V-e
32. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet
Derived Score
Letter naming Chart
Semantics
Macron
33. Multisensory Structured Language Education
MSLE
Anglo Saxon
Consonant Digraph
Chall's Stage 3
34. Whole body learning
IMSLEC
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Kinesthetic
35. 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
Battery
VC
WIATII
36. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents
Chall's Stage 0
Standard score
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
CTOPP
37. 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.
Chall's Stage 3
Criterion-Referenced Test
Synthetic Instruction
Anglo Saxon
38. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.
Cedilla
Academic Achievement Tests
Six basic types of syllables
Multisensory
39. 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)
Cognitive Assessment
Funding
Combination
SBOE
40. 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
Pre-English
Sound Symbol Association
Criterion-Referenced Test
Keith Stanovich
41. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.
Visual Processing
Modern English
Accommodation
Universal Screening
42. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)
Derivative
Open Syllable
Phonics
Achievement test
43. An ability test is designed to measure either your general intelligence or your mental aptitude in a particular area. For example
Samuel T. Orton
Old English
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Ability
44. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.
Academic Achievement Tests
Letter naming Chart
Reliability
Dyslexia
45. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)
VV
Analytic
Profile
IEP
46. 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
Tilde
James Hinshelwood
Anglo Saxon
Macron
47. Test of Word Reading Efficiency. Screening test. measures an individual's ability to pronounce printed words accurately and fluently. Generates percentiles - standard scores - age equivalents - and grade equivalents.Decoding - Sight words
Whole Language
Battery
Towre
Standard score
48. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Composite Score
NICHD
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Curriculum referenced tests
49. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.
Sight Words
Greek layer of language
Visual Learners
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
50. Proceeds from the whole to the part - suggests that processing of a text begins in the mind of the readers. Meaning is brought to print not derived from print.
Top-down Reading Approach
RTI
Sight Words
Linguistic Method