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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

Subject : certifications
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction






2. Ability to understand and express spoken language






3. 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






4. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek






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






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






7. 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.






8. 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






9. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.






10. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning






11. 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.






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






13. 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






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






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






16. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.


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






18. 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.






19. His research in the field of reading was fundamental to the emergence of today's scientific consensus about what reading is - how it works and what it does for the mind.






20. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships


21. Multisensory Structured Language






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






23. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






24. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.






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






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






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






28. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"






29. 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






30. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children






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


32. Vowel - consonant - e syllable






33. Involve at least two people. It includes the ability to maintain eye contact - understand body language of others - take turns in a conversation - stick to the subject - and use oral language appropriate for the situation.






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






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






36. 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






37. 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






38. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






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






40. r-controlled syllable






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






42. 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.






43. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile






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


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


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






48. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test






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






50. 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.