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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. A spoken or written unit that must have a vowel sound and that may include consonants that precede or follow that vowel. Syllables are units of sound made by one impulse of voice.






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






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






4. 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.






5. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program






6. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words






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






8. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development

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9. Multisensory Structured Language






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

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11. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.






12. 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






13. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test






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






15. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






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






17. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time






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






19. 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






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






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. 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. Final stable syllable

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






25. 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






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






27. 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






28. An ability test is designed to measure either your general intelligence or your mental aptitude in a particular area. For example






29. 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






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






31. 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






32. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder






33. Academic Language Therapy Association






34. Multisensory Structured Language Education






35. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept






36. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy






37. 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.






38. 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






39. 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






40. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.






41. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents






42. 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.






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






44. 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






45. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.






46. State Board of Education Rule - District Board of Trustees must make sure dyslexia procedures are given to the district. - District must use SBOE approved strategies for screening and treating dyslexia






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






48. State Board of Eduation






49. Open syllable






50. 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.