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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. Confirmation and Fluency - Decoding skills - Fluency - additional strategies

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2. 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






3. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.






4. listening - remembering - and understanding what someone else says.






5. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept






6. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.






7. 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






8. A group of several test standardized on the same sample population so that results on the several tests are comparable. Example : School achievement tests






9. 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.






10. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.






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

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






13. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words






14. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning






15. 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.






16. A districts dyslexia program is considered part of the basic - required curriculum. Therefore - state compensatory education funds can only be used to provide programs - projects - activities - and materials that supplement that district's regular dy






17. 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.






18. 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






19. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"






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






21. 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.






22. Ability to understand and express spoken language






23. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.






24. English as a second language






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

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26. Individuals with a Disabilities Act






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






28. A term coined by Stanovich to describe a phenomenon observed in findings of cumulative advantage for children who read well and have good vocabulary and cumulative disadvantage for those who have inadequate vocabularies and read less and thus have lo






29. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality






30. Vowel - consonant - e syllable






31. 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






32. Wide Range Achievement Test






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






34. 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






35. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.






36. Making sense of what we read. Comprehension is dependent on good word recognition - fluency - vocabulary - worldly knowledge - and language ability.






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






38. 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






39. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile






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






41. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)






42. 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






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






44. 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.






45. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.






46. Whole body learning






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






48. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.






49. 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






50. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development

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