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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. 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






2. 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






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






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






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






6. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound






7. 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






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






9. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.






10. English as a second language






11. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.

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12. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes






13. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder






14. 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.






15. 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.






16. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.






17. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.






18. 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.






19. 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.






20. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.






21. 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.






22. 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






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






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






25. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.






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






27. Whole body learning






28. State Board of Eduation






29. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes






30. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






31. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development

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






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






34. A diacritical marking. A wavy line placed over any vowel before r in a combination to indicate the unaccented pronunciation eg letter. The tildes used both in coding words and in a sound picture. When the pronunciation of any unaccented vowel-r combi






35. 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






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

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37. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words






38. 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.






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






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






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






42. r-controlled syllable






43. 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.






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






45. The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send picture or phonic/dictionary notation that indicates a long sound.






46. 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






47. Closed syllable






48. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






49. Feeling through fingertips






50. 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