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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Tests used to identify the nature and source of an individual's educational - psychological - or medical difficulties or disabilities in order to facilitate correction or remediation.
Diagnostic tests
Adolf Kusmaul
Suffix
Chall's Stage 1
2. Teutonic invasion and settlement - The Christianizing of Britain - The creation of a national English culture - Danish-English warfare - Political adjustment and cultural assimilation and the decline of Old English as a result of The Norman Conquest.
SBOE
Old English
Syntax
Phonemic/ decodable words
3. 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.
Quadrigraph
WRAT
Mastery level
Consonant
4. 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.
Accuracy
Standard deviation
Base Word
Chall's Stage 4
5. 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
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Base Word
Morphology
Great Vowel Shift
6. 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
Base Word
Samuel T. Orton
Modern English
Grapheme
7. English as a second language
WIATII
Modern English
Texas Education Code 38.003
ESL
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
Modification
Towre
Cognition
VV
9. 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.
Components of Reading Instruction
Syllable
SBOE
Middle English
10. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.
Norm-Referenced Test
Six basic types of syllables
Curriculum referenced tests
Syllable Instruction
11. 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.
Phonemic Awareness
Reading Comprehension Support
Cognition
V-e
12. 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
Joe Torgesen
Diphthong
Adolf Kusmaul
Tilde
13. 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
SBOE
Phonemic Awareness
Linguistic Method
Standardized test
14. 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 -
Direct Instruction
Syllable
Linguistic Method
Middle English
15. State Board of Eduation
CTOPP
Modification
Accommodation
SBOE
16. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time
Rate
Pre-English
Breve
Linguistic Method
17. Ability to understand and express spoken language
Standard deviation
Oral Language
RTI
Stanine Scores
18. 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
IMSLEC
Base Word
Pre-English
James Hinshelwood
19. A morpheme attached to the end of a word that creates a word with a different form or use. Suffixes include inflected forms indicating tense - number - person and comparatives.
Vowel Digraph
Suffix
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Chall's Stage 0
20. 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
Profile
Vowel
Old English
Auditory Learners
21. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.
Chall's Stage 1
V-e
Age equivalent
Trigraph
22. 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
Syntax
Closed Syllable
V >
Chall's Stage 3
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.
Anglo Saxon
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Percentile
Criterion-Referenced Test
24. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U
Vowel
Modification
Consonant Digraph
Matthew Effect
25. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.
Visual Processing
Six basic types of syllables
Digraph
Visual Learners
26. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.
Matthew Effect
Open Syllable
Vowel Digraph
Multisensory
27. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)
Grapheme
Multi-Sensory Approach
Kinesthetic
VV
28. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS
RTI
Funding
Mathew Effect
Breve
29. 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
Whole Language
Phonemic Awareness
Open Syllable
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
30. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness
The Norman Conquest
Accent
Phonemic Awareness
Closed Syllable
31. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view
32. 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.
Linguistic Method
Progress Monitoring
Norm-referenced tests
Composite Score
33. Final stable syllable
34. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Anglo Saxon
ALTA
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
35. 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
Phoneme
ADHD
Multi-Sensory Approach
Modern English
36. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
Greek layer of language
The Norman Conquest
Modification
37. 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
Tactile
Whole Language
Norm-Referenced Test
Academic Achievement Tests
38. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
Consonant Digraph
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Syllable
Prefix
39. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.
Composite Score
Analytic
RTI
NICHD
40. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)
Phonemic/ decodable words
Raw score
The Norman Conquest
Open Syllable
41. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.
Sound Symbol Association
Accent
Prefix
Funding
42. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Chall's Stage 4
Diphthong
CTOPP
NICHD
43. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.
Breve
RTI
Academic Achievement Tests
Six basic types of syllables
44. Whole body learning
Vowel Digraph
Accent
Kinesthetic
MSL
45. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
IMSLEC
Texas Education Code 38.003
46. 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
Pre-English
Auditory Processing
Dyslexia
SBOE
47. Individual Educational Plan
IEP
Joe Torgesen
Ability
Attention
48. An ability test is designed to measure either your general intelligence or your mental aptitude in a particular area. For example
Chall's Stage 2
Ability
Breve
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
49. 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.
MSL
Tactile
Diagnostic Teaching
Modern English
50. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies
V-e
Components of Reading Instruction
Joe Torgesen
Multi-Sensory Approach