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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.
IDEA
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Greek layer of language
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
2. 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.
Accommodation
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Phonics
VC
3. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
The Norman Conquest
Norm-Referenced Test
WIATII
4. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.
Linguistic Method
Composite Score
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Visual Processing
5. 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
Anglo Saxon
Kinesthetic
GORT
Pre-English
6. 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.
Sight Words
Vowel Digraph
Fluency
Grapheme
7. Closed syllable
VC
Middle English
Visual Processing
Sound Symbol Association
8. 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
Towre
Closed Syllable
Percentile
Receptive language
9. A districts dyslexia program is considered part of the basic - required curriculum. Therefore - state compensatory education funds can only be used to provide programs - projects - activities - and materials that supplement that district's regular dy
Digraph
Funding
Modification
Anna Gillingham
10. 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.
Prefix
Middle English
Cognitive Assessment
Top-down Reading Approach
11. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children
VC
Trigraph
Components of Reading Instruction
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
12. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.
Latin layer of language
Three Layers of Language
Quadrigraph
Adolf Kusmaul
13. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.
Impulsivity
Quadrigraph
Auditory Processing
CTOPP
14. English as a second language
Anglo Saxon
Grapheme
ESL
Visual Learners
15. Taught visual to auditory - Taught auditory to visual - Students should also master blending of sounds into words and as well segmenting whole words into individual sounds.
Simultaneous teaching
Morphology
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Top-down Reading Approach
16. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words
Achievement test
Synthetic Instruction
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Vowel Digraph
17. Individual Educational Plan
Kinesthetic
IEP
Top-down Reading Approach
Norm-Referenced Test
18. 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
GORT
Orthography
Criterion-Referenced Test
Rate
19. 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.
Achievement test
Top-down Reading Approach
Affix
Auditory Learners
20. International Multisensory Structured Education Council
Fluency
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Suffix
IMSLEC
21. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)
Vowel
Visual Learners
Derived Score
Grapheme
22. Children may be physical and socially immature - may be awkward in social situations - may have difficulty reading social cues - may have trouble finding the right words - stammering. - may feel anxious in school
Three Layers of Language
VV
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
23. 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.
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
SBOE
Cognitive Assessment
Tilde
24. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning
Percentile
Reading Comprehension Support
Norm-Referenced Test
Keith Stanovich
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
Norm-Referenced Test
Sound Symbol Association
Texas Education Code 38.003
Semantics
26. 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
Great Vowel Shift
SBOE
Phonemic/ decodable words
Raw score
27. 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
Grade equivalents
ADHD
Towre
Standard Scores
28. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test
Dyslexia
Tactile
Receptive language
Reliability
29. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program
Simultaneous teaching
Reading Comprehension Support
Curriculum referenced tests
Synthetic Instruction
30. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)
Modern English
Phonemic Awareness
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Trigraph
31. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.
Kinesthetic
Modification
Simultaneous teaching
ALTA
32. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable
IEP
Six basic types of syllables
Cedilla
Syllable Instruction
33. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Prefix
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Phonological Awareness
34. A type of derived score such that the distribution of these scores for a specified population has convenient known values for the mean and standard deviation.
Components of Reading Instruction
Standard Scores
Syllable Instruction
Adolf Kusmaul
35. 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
Achievement test
Progress Monitoring
Standardized test
Chall's Stage 5
36. 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
Great Vowel Shift
Matthew Effect
Anna Gillingham
Phoneme
37. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability
Accent
Anna Gillingham
Three Layers of Language
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
38. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.
Semantics
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Syllable
39. 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
Cognition
Top-down Reading Approach
The Norman Conquest
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
40. 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
VC
Visual Processing
Visual Learners
Syllable Instruction
41. Multisensory Structured Language Education
MSLE
Vowel Digraph
Diagnostic Teaching
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
42. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)
Open Syllable
Modern English
Sight Words
MSL
43. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.
Raw score
Top-down Reading Approach
Percentile/ percentile rank
WRAT
44. 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
Pre-English
Sight Words
Texas Education Code 28.06
Tilde
45. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept
Frank Smith
Digraph
Texas Education Code 38.003
Simultaneous teaching
46. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.
Syllable Instruction
Diagnostic Teaching
Attention
Texas Education Code 38.003
47. Academic Language Therapy Association
Accuracy
Norm-Referenced Test
Stanine Scores
ALTA
48. Multisensory Structured Language
MSL
WIATII
Criterion-Referenced Test
Chall's Stage 4
49. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Derivative
Greek layer of language
NICHD
Visual Processing
50. Reading for Learning "the New" - Expand vocabularies - build background and world knowledge - develop strategic habits
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