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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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






2. 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.






3. Expects child to learn reading as "naturally" as speech - Uses child's oral language as content for reading - Uses child's oral language as basis for spelling instruction - Children learn to "read" by reading and re-reading "big books" together with

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4. 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.






5. 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






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






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






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






9. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






10. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT






11. 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






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






13. 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






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






15. 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






16. 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






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






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






19. 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)






20. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.






21. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.






22. 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






23. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.






24. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development






25. Comprehensive end-of-year exams - reflecting the specific subject matter outlines in the curriculum.






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






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






28. 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






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






30. 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






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






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






33. 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.






34. Vowel - consonant - e syllable






35. Academic Language Therapy Association






36. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept






37. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents






38. 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.






39. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test






40. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.






41. 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.






42. 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.






43. A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of structural linguistics.






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






45. The process of systematically gathering test scores and related data in order to make judgement about an individuals ability to perform various mental activities involved in the processing - acquisition - retention - conceptualization - and organizat






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

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47. English as a second language






48. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder






49. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






50. 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






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