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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

Subject : certifications
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.






2. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






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






4. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek






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






6. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder






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






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






9. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






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






11. 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






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. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.






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






15. 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






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






17. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test






18. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.






19. The process of systematically gathering test scores and related data in order to make judgement about an individuals ability to perform various mental activities involved in the processing - acquisition - retention - conceptualization - and organizat






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






21. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound






22. 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






23. Taught visual to auditory - Taught auditory to visual - Students should also master blending of sounds into words and as well segmenting whole words into individual sounds.






24. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children






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






26. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"






27. Final stable syllable

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28. 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.






29. 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.






30. 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






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






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






33. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words






34. 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






35. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept






36. Making sense of what we read. Comprehension is dependent on good word recognition - fluency - vocabulary - worldly knowledge - and language ability.






37. 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.






38. 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






39. 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.






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

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






42. State Board of Eduation






43. 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.






44. 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






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






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






47. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.






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






49. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development

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

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