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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Paired association between letters and letter sounds; an approach to teaching of reading and spelling that emphasizes sound-symbol relationships - especially in early instruction.






2. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words






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. 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






5. 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






6. 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






7. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






8. 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






9. Whole body learning






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






11. 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






12. 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






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






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






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






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






17. 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






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






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






20. A pattern of letters (found in a single syllable) which occurs frequently together. The pronunciation of at least one of the component parts is unexpected or the letters stand in an unexpected sequence ( ar - er - ir - or - us - qu - wh)






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






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






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






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






25. State Board of Eduation






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






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






28. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia






29. English as a second language






30. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






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






32. Is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the






33. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.






34. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others






35. The curved line placed beneath c to indicate its "soft" or (s) pronunciation - as opposed to its hard or (k) pronunciation. Students use the coding on c before the letters e - i - or y (the softeners) - to remind themselves to pronounced the (s) soun






36. 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






37. Most soundly supported by research for effective instruction in beginning reading - Must be explicitly taught - Must be systematically organized and sequenced - Must include learning how to blend sounds together






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






39. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words






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






41. 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






42. 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.






43. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction






44. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children






45. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






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






47. 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.






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






49. 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 -






50. The curved diacritical mark above a vowel in a sound picture or phonic/dictionary symbol notation that indicates a short sound in a closed syllable in which at least one consonant comes after the vowel in the same syllable.