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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

Subject : certifications
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS






2. 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






3. 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.






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

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5. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






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






7. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile






8. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






9. Ability to understand and express spoken language






10. 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






11. 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






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






13. Statistical measure of the degree of dispersion in distribution of scores. Measures spread of a set of data around mean of the data. The more widely the values are spread out - the larger the standard deviation.






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






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






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






17. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928






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






19. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable






20. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language






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






22. Open syllable






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






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






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






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






27. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)






28. 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






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






30. English as a second language






31. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.






32. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.






33. Inferential learning of a concept cannot be take for granted! Never assume!






34. Final stable syllable

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35. Multisensory Structured Language






36. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






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. 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. 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






40. 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






41. 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






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






43. Vowel - consonant - e syllable






44. Multisensory Structured Language Education






45. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words






46. A group of several test standardized on the same sample population so that results on the several tests are comparable. Example : School achievement tests






47. 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






48. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children






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






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