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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. 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
Consonant
Components of Reading Instruction
Derivative
Grade equivalents
2. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Composite Score
Letter naming Chart
3. 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.
Diagnostic tests
MSLE
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Morpheme
4. 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
Accommodation
WIATII
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Multi-Sensory Approach
5. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.
Open Syllable
Phoneme
Matthew Effect
Whole Language
6. 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
Impulsivity
Consonant
Texas Education Code 28.06
Visual Learners
7. listening - remembering - and understanding what someone else says.
Reliability
Norm-referenced tests
Receptive language
The Norman Conquest
8. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.
Stanine Scores
ESL
V-e
Consonant Digraph
9. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others
ESL
Standard Scores
Expressive language
Synthetic Instruction
10. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes
Derivative
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Social language
Simultaneous teaching
11. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.
Middle English
V-e
Attention
Latin layer of language
12. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program
Top-down Reading Approach
ADHD
Suffix
Synthetic Instruction
13. 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
WRAT
Latin layer of language
Auditory Learners
Components of Reading Instruction
14. 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.
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Multisensory
Consonant
VC
15. 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.
Chall's Stage 4
SBOE
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Age equivalent
16. 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.
Synthetic Instruction
Standard deviation
Reading Comprehension Support
Accommodation
17. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
GORT
Diagnostic Teaching
Consonant Digraph
Anna Gillingham
18. 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.
MSL
Combination
Sight Words
Chall's Stage 3
19. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Phonics
Norm-referenced tests
Standard score
20. 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
Sight Words
Greek layer of language
Criterion-Referenced Test
Affix
21. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.
Syntax
Fluency
Phonemic/ decodable words
Curriculum referenced tests
22. Open syllable
V >
Derivative
Kinesthetic
Multisensory
23. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.
Visual Learners
Analytic
Rate
Kinesthetic
24. Whole body learning
Breve
Kinesthetic
Phonology
Samuel T. Orton
25. Vowel - consonant - e syllable
Direct Instruction
Affix
V-e
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
26. 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.
Closed Syllable
Impulsivity
Old English
Phonemic/ decodable words
27. Closed syllable
Curriculum referenced tests
VC
Receptive language
Adolf Kusmaul
28. 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.
Standard deviation
Multisensory
Mastery level
Social language
29. 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
Norm-Referenced Test
Expressive language
Towre
Six basic types of syllables
30. 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.
Greek layer of language
Cognition
Direct Instruction
Phonemic Awareness
31. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development
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32. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships
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33. 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
Syllable Instruction
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Affix
Linguistic Method
34. 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
Phonemic Awareness
VAKT
Tilde
Samuel T. Orton
35. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability
Phonics
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Visual Learners
Grapheme
36. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words
Rate
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
James Hinshelwood
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
37. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness
Derivative
Digraph
Age equivalent
Phonemic Awareness
38. Wide Range Achievement Test
Mastery level
Components of Reading Instruction
WRAT
Accent
39. Paired association between letters and letter sounds; an approach to teaching of reading and spelling that emphasizes sound-symbol relationships - especially in early instruction.
Towre
Phonics
Chall's Stage 1
Profile
40. 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
Syllable Instruction
Vowel
Morphology
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
41. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.
Simultaneous teaching
WIATII
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Raw score
42. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
IMSLEC
Syntax
Academic Achievement Tests
43. 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.
Standard Scores
Phonics approach
Synthetic Instruction
Percentile/ percentile rank
44. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Modern English
NICHD
Diagnostic Teaching
Achievement test
45. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.
Quadrigraph
Modification
Percentile
Standard score
46. International Multisensory Structured Education Council
Phonics
Norm-Referenced Test
IMSLEC
Digraph
47. Making sense of what we read. Comprehension is dependent on good word recognition - fluency - vocabulary - worldly knowledge - and language ability.
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Macron
V >
Comprehension
48. 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.
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Composite Score
Morphology
Letter naming Chart
49. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.
Trigraph
Progress Monitoring
Ability
Texas Education Code 38.003
50. Comprehensive end-of-year exams - reflecting the specific subject matter outlines in the curriculum.
Curriculum referenced tests
Whole Language
Syllable
Six basic types of syllables