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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents
Raw score
Breve
CTOPP
Accuracy
2. A test in which a student's performance is compared to that of a norm group. Often used to measure and compare students - schools - districts and states.
Norm-referenced tests
Anna Gillingham
Social language
Suffix
3. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)
Auditory Learners
Ability
Open Syllable
Frank Smith
4. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view
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5. State Board of Eduation
Raw score
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
SBOE
ALTA
6. 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
Accuracy
Affix
Matthew Effect
Progress Monitoring
7. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others
Expressive language
IDEA
Diphthong
Social language
8. 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
Multisensory
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
ESL
Achievement test
9. Confirmation and Fluency - Decoding skills - Fluency - additional strategies
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10. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.
Open Syllable
Latin layer of language
Derived Score
Middle English
11. 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
Middle English
Criterion-Referenced Test
Morpheme
MSL
12. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.
Profile
Affix
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Derived Score
13. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Grade equivalents
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Percentile
14. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction
Attention
Texas Education Code 28.06
ESL
Simultaneous teaching
15. 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.
Direct Instruction
Cognition
Consonant
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
16. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies
Oral Language
Components of Reading Instruction
Phonology
Pre-English
17. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program
Synthetic Instruction
Keith Stanovich
Cedilla
Vowel Digraph
18. Reading can be learned as naturally as speaking - reading is focused on constructing meaning from texts using children's books rather than basal or controlled readers - reading is best learned in the context of the group - phonics is taught indirectl
Standard Scores
Morphology
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Whole Language
19. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U
Diagnostic tests
MSL
Vowel
Phonemic Awareness
20. 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
Multi-Sensory Approach
Percentile/ percentile rank
Grapheme
Syntax
21. 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 -
Profile
Middle English
Curriculum referenced tests
Social language
22. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable
[-'le
Six basic types of syllables
Phonology
Sound Symbol Association
23. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
WIATII
24. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.
Whole Language
Greek layer of language
Texas Education Code 28.06
NICHD
25. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.
Syllable Instruction
Semantics
James Hinshelwood
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
26. International Multisensory Structured Education Council
Raw score
Cedilla
IMSLEC
Direct Instruction
27. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS
Chall's Stage 5
Adolf Kusmaul
Standardized test
Mathew Effect
28. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.
Criterion-Referenced Test
Matthew Effect
Stanine Scores
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
29. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.
Age equivalent
Macron
Prefix
Components of Reading Instruction
30. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.
Syllable
Fluency
Old English
Analytic
31. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.
Tactile
Norm-Referenced Test
Syntax
Closed Syllable
32. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning
Reading Comprehension Support
Digraph
Direct Instruction
Breve
33. 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
Expressive language
Texas Education Code 38.003
Grade equivalents
Percentile/ percentile rank
34. Closed syllable
VC
Phoneme
Auditory Processing
Phonemic Awareness
35. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words
Top-down Reading Approach
Phonological Awareness
Texas Education Code 28.06
Diagnostic tests
36. 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.
Criterion-Referenced Test
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Tilde
37. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
Whole Language
Diphthong
Consonant Digraph
Trigraph
38. One of a class of speech sounds in which sound moving through the vocal tract is constricted or obstructed by the lips - tongue or teeth during articulation.
The Norman Conquest
Pre-English
Consonant
ALTA
39. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.
Analytic
WIATII
Mastery level
VAKT
40. 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.
Diagnostic Teaching
Chall's Stage 0
Phonology
Stanine Scores
41. Comprehensive end-of-year exams - reflecting the specific subject matter outlines in the curriculum.
Pre-English
Curriculum referenced tests
Universal Screening
Funding
42. Final stable syllable
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43. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.
Phonics
Texas Education Code 38.003
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Universal Screening
44. Multisensory Structured Language Education
Criterion referenced tests
Progress Monitoring
Macron
MSLE
45. Making sense of what we read. Comprehension is dependent on good word recognition - fluency - vocabulary - worldly knowledge - and language ability.
Affix
Base Word
Comprehension
Derivative
46. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel
Stanine Scores
Impulsivity
Social language
Norm-Referenced Test
47. English as a second language
Raw score
Diagnostic Teaching
Mathew Effect
ESL
48. A districts dyslexia program is considered part of the basic - required curriculum. Therefore - state compensatory education funds can only be used to provide programs - projects - activities - and materials that supplement that district's regular dy
Criterion-Referenced Test
Tactile
Sight Words
Funding
49. 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
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
The Norman Conquest
Letter naming Chart
Towre
50. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
NICHD
Mastery level
Expressive language
Derived Score