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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)
Tactile
VV
Matthew Effect
Phonemic Awareness
2. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view
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3. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT
Standardized test
Prefix
Six basic types of syllables
Texas Education Code 38.003
4. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning
Standardized test
IEP
Reading Comprehension Support
MSLE
5. His research in the field of reading was fundamental to the emergence of today's scientific consensus about what reading is - how it works and what it does for the mind.
Whole Language
Keith Stanovich
Orthography
Digraph
6. 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.
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Profile
Breve
7. 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
Diphthong
Percentile
Keith Stanovich
Accent
8. 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.
Expressive language
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Diagnostic tests
Ability
9. English as a second language
Macron
Modern English
ESL
Norm-Referenced Test
10. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)
Trigraph
Macron
Keith Stanovich
Great Vowel Shift
11. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Phonemic Awareness
NICHD
ESL
Pre-English
12. Open syllable
Chall's Stage 4
V >
Social language
Closed Syllable
13. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others
[-'le
Expressive language
Percentile
Accent
14. Closed syllable
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
VC
Whole Language
Prefix
15. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.
Multi-Sensory Approach
Cognitive Assessment
Progress Monitoring
Oral Language
16. Academic Language Therapy Association
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
ALTA
Top-down Reading Approach
Synthetic Instruction
17. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.
Anglo Saxon
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
MSLE
Battery
18. 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
Battery
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Grapheme
19. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words
Phonological Awareness
Phonics approach
RTI
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
20. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.
Reliability
Reading Comprehension Support
Academic Achievement Tests
Age equivalent
21. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.
Derivative
Digraph
ALTA
Phoneme
22. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable
Funding
Six basic types of syllables
Chall's Stage 0
Consonant Digraph
23. A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that is different that the base word or root.
Affix
Three Layers of Language
Age equivalent
Chall's Stage 3
24. Gray Oral Reading Test-Fourth Edition Screening test. Provides an efficient and objective measure of growth in oral reading and an aid in the diagnosis of oral reading difficulties Standard Scores - Percentile Ranks - Grade Equivalents - Age Equivale
The Norman Conquest
GORT
Morphology
Norm-Referenced Test
25. 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
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Standard score
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Diagnostic tests
26. 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
[-'le
Academic Achievement Tests
Cedilla
Criterion-Referenced Test
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
Quadrigraph
Orthography
James Hinshelwood
Auditory Learners
28. 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
Funding
VC
Linguistic Method
Multi-Sensory Approach
29. 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
Matthew Effect
Whole Language
Samuel T. Orton
ADHD
30. 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.
Diagnostic Teaching
WRAT
Kinesthetic
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
31. 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
IDEA
Diagnostic tests
Linguistic Method
Pre-English
32. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound
Vowel Digraph
SBOE
Orthography
Base Word
33. Vowel - consonant - e syllable
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
V-e
Norm-referenced tests
Cognitive Assessment
34. 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.
Morphology
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Sight Words
Chall's Stage 0
35. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.
Six basic types of syllables
Texas Education Code 28.06
Syllable Instruction
Derived Score
36. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet
Consonant Digraph
Joe Torgesen
Letter naming Chart
Chall's Stage 2
37. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.
Morpheme
Accent
Universal Screening
Semantics
38. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes
Macron
Morphology
Visual Learners
Universal Screening
39. A group of several test standardized on the same sample population so that results on the several tests are comparable. Example : School achievement tests
Ability
Old English
Battery
Accommodation
40. The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send picture or phonic/dictionary notation that indicates a long sound.
Whole Language
Grapheme
Syllable
Macron
41. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program
Mastery level
Vr
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Synthetic Instruction
42. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek
Letter naming Chart
Curriculum referenced tests
Closed Syllable
Three Layers of Language
43. A significant unit of visual shape. We use the visual shape as to cover not only writing - but also any other shape perceived by the eye which is a visible representation of a unit of speech. A single graphic letter or letter cluster which represents
Suffix
Syntax
Grapheme
Fluency
44. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.
IDEA
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Phonemic/ decodable words
Academic Achievement Tests
45. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.
Semantics
Oral Language
Vowel Digraph
Tactile
46. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.
Orthography
James Hinshelwood
Funding
Vowel
47. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.
MSLE
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Norm-referenced tests
Multisensory
48. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.
Latin layer of language
Criterion referenced tests
Consonant
Norm-referenced tests
49. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
Phonics
Multisensory
Consonant Digraph
Sight Words
50. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality
Analytic
Matthew Effect
MSL
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics