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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. Final stable syllable

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2. 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






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






4. 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)






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






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






7. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile






8. 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.






9. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT






10. 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






11. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.






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






13. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)






14. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






15. 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






16. Confirmation and Fluency - Decoding skills - Fluency - additional strategies

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17. Vowel - consonant - e syllable






18. Multisensory Structured Language Education






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






20. 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






21. 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






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






23. 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






24. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet






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






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

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27. 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.






28. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"






29. Wide Range Achievement Test






30. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development

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31. 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






32. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies






33. 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.






34. 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.






35. Involve at least two people. It includes the ability to maintain eye contact - understand body language of others - take turns in a conversation - stick to the subject - and use oral language appropriate for the situation.






36. 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.






37. 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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38. 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






39. Open syllable






40. 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.






41. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.






42. 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






43. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.






44. 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






45. 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.






46. Academic Language Therapy Association






47. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia






48. 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






49. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder






50. Multisensory Structured Language