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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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






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






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






4. 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






5. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time






6. 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.






7. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder






8. 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.






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

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






11. 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.






12. 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






13. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile






14. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.






15. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)






16. Final stable syllable

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17. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"






18. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.






19. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.






20. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928






21. 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.






22. 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






23. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment






24. 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






25. Feeling through fingertips






26. State Board of Education Rule - District Board of Trustees must make sure dyslexia procedures are given to the district. - District must use SBOE approved strategies for screening and treating dyslexia






27. 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






28. 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 -






29. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek






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






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






32. 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






33. The percentile score on - for example - a test is the score that represents the percent of other scores to or lower than is. If a student performs in the 85% of his or her class - it means the 85% of the other scores of students who also took the tes






34. Stress or emphasis on one syllable in a word or on one or more words in a phrase or sentence. The accented part is spoken louder - longer - and/or in a higher tone. The speaker's mouth opens wider while saying an accented syllable.






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






36. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U






37. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept






38. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.






39. 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






40. The curved diacritical mark above a vowel in a sound picture or phonic/dictionary symbol notation that indicates a short sound in a closed syllable in which at least one consonant comes after the vowel in the same syllable.






41. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes






42. 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.






43. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy






44. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.

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






46. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view

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47. State Board of Eduation






48. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






49. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet






50. 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.