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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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






2. Effective for special needs - Uses all possible senses - tracing - saying - listening - looking - Typically called VAKT - Visual - Auditory - Kinesthetic - Tactile - Can be used with either Phonics or Whole Language






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






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






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






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






7. 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






8. Confirmation and Fluency - Decoding skills - Fluency - additional strategies

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9. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children






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






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






12. 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.






13. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development

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14. A significant unit of visual shape. We use the visual shape as to cover not only writing - but also any other shape perceived by the eye which is a visible representation of a unit of speech. A single graphic letter or letter cluster which represents






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






16. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test






17. 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






18. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






19. 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.






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






21. 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






22. 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






23. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept






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






25. 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






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






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






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






29. A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that is different that the base word or root.






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

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31. 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.






32. MSLE instruction requires that organization on material follow the logical order of the language. Sequence must begin with the easiest and progress to more difficult material. Each step must be based on prior knowledge.






33. 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.






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






35. 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.






36. 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






37. Paired association between letters and letter sounds; an approach to teaching of reading and spelling that emphasizes sound-symbol relationships - especially in early instruction.






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






39. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.






40. 1925 - Coined the term "strephosymbolia" which means twisted symbols; Pathologist - neurologist and psychitrist in the US - studied with Dr. Alzheimer in Germany - work influenced by James Hinshelwood






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






42. The term is also used for the language now called Old English - spoken and written by the ________ and their descendants in much of what is now England and some of southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century.






43. Feeling through fingertips






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






45. 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.






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






47. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek






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






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






50. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound