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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)
Universal Screening
Age equivalent
Syllable Instruction
Derived Score
2. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.
VC
Sound Symbol Association
Norm-referenced tests
Chall's Stage 1
3. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.
NICHD
Samuel T. Orton
VC
Mastery level
4. International Multisensory Structured Education Council
Oral Language
Grade equivalents
IMSLEC
[-'le
5. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Multi-Sensory Approach
Stanine Scores
Modern English
6. A group of several test standardized on the same sample population so that results on the several tests are comparable. Example : School achievement tests
Grapheme
Multisensory
Battery
Mathew Effect
7. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Social language
NICHD
Battery
Syllable
8. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.
Social language
Academic Achievement Tests
Simultaneous teaching
Ability
9. Alphabetic principle" and its relationship to phonemic awareness and phonological awareness in reading
Vr
Texas Education Code 28.06
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Consonant Digraph
10. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view
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11. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program
V >
RTI
Reading Comprehension Support
Synthetic Instruction
12. 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.
[-'le
Norm-referenced tests
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Progress Monitoring
13. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.
Anna Gillingham
Matthew Effect
Fluency
Curriculum referenced tests
14. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)
V >
Vowel
Trigraph
Quadrigraph
15. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.
Accuracy
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Profile
IEP
16. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)
MSLE
Mathew Effect
Ability
Open Syllable
17. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test
Texas Education Code 38.003
Dyslexia
Morphology
Reliability
18. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Expressive language
Latin layer of language
Impulsivity
19. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.
Modification
Old English
Chall's Stage 0
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
20. Open syllable
Age equivalent
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
V >
Ability
21. Whole body learning
RTI
Kinesthetic
Orthography
WIATII
22. 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
Standard Scores
Frank Smith
Percentile
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
23. 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
Digraph
Chall's Stage 3
Auditory Processing
24. Individual Educational Plan
Consonant Digraph
Criterion referenced tests
Receptive language
IEP
25. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.
Analytic
Diagnostic tests
Curriculum referenced tests
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
26. Reading for Learning "the New" - Expand vocabularies - build background and world knowledge - develop strategic habits
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27. 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.
Social language
Syllable Instruction
Trigraph
RTI
28. 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
ADHD
Keith Stanovich
Tilde
Sight Words
29. 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.
Percentile
WIATII
Attention
Consonant
30. Multisensory Structured Language Education
Age equivalent
MSLE
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Composite Score
31. Is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the
Dyslexia
Top-down Reading Approach
Morphology
Cognition
32. Final stable syllable
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33. State Board of Eduation
Prefix
SBOE
Vowel
Accuracy
34. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Rate
James Hinshelwood
35. 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.
Sight Words
Standard Scores
ALTA
WIATII
36. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.
Phonics approach
Impulsivity
Modification
Adolf Kusmaul
37. 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.
Synthetic Instruction
Cognition
Middle English
Syntax
38. 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
Macron
Standard deviation
Letter naming Chart
Joe Torgesen
39. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.
Raw score
Auditory Processing
Closed Syllable
Orthography
40. The term is also used for the language now called Old English - spoken and written by the ________ and their descendants in much of what is now England and some of southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century.
Greek layer of language
MSLE
Anglo Saxon
Analytic
41. English as a second language
Grade equivalents
ESL
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Breve
42. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness
Phonemic Awareness
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Linguistic Method
Criterion-Referenced Test
43. 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
Phonological Awareness
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Morpheme
44. An ability test is designed to measure either your general intelligence or your mental aptitude in a particular area. For example
Ability
Vowel Digraph
Macron
Age equivalent
45. Vowel - consonant - e syllable
Prefix
V-e
Modification
RTI
46. 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
Samuel T. Orton
Auditory Learners
Oral Language
Cognition
47. 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.
Mathew Effect
Keith Stanovich
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Base Word
48. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships
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49. 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
Diagnostic tests
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Grade equivalents
Sight Words
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
WIATII
Great Vowel Shift
Diagnostic tests
Modification