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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Individual Educational Plan
IEP
Mathew Effect
Grapheme
V >
2. 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
Social language
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Texas Education Code 28.06
3. 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.
Sight Words
Oral Language
Samuel T. Orton
Suffix
4. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.
Auditory Processing
Towre
Percentile
Matthew Effect
5. 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
Grapheme
Linguistic Method
Multi-Sensory Approach
The Norman Conquest
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.
Achievement test
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Phonics
Breve
7. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.
Norm-Referenced Test
Base Word
Modification
Stanine Scores
8. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Suffix
Phoneme
Grapheme
9. Alphabetic principle" and its relationship to phonemic awareness and phonological awareness in reading
Combination
The Norman Conquest
Sight Words
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
10. 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
Greek layer of language
Accommodation
Auditory Learners
Dyslexia
11. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.
Base Word
Simultaneous teaching
Consonant Digraph
Fluency
12. English as a second language
ESL
Auditory Learners
Reliability
Texas Education Code 28.06
13. Proceeds from the whole to the part - suggests that processing of a text begins in the mind of the readers. Meaning is brought to print not derived from print.
V >
Standard deviation
Top-down Reading Approach
Cedilla
14. Multisensory Structured Language Education
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
MSLE
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
15. 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
Accommodation
Chall's Stage 1
Latin layer of language
Norm-Referenced Test
16. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)
Standard deviation
Syllable
Dyslexia
Quadrigraph
17. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.
Consonant Digraph
Phonemic/ decodable words
Prefix
Auditory Learners
18. The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send picture or phonic/dictionary notation that indicates a long sound.
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Macron
GORT
Affix
19. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes
Norm-Referenced Test
Standardized test
Derivative
Sound Symbol Association
20. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.
Base Word
ESL
Trigraph
Anglo Saxon
21. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Derivative
Components of Reading Instruction
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
22. 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
Universal Screening
Cognitive Assessment
Profile
23. Whole body learning
Kinesthetic
Phonological Awareness
Components of Reading Instruction
Derived Score
24. 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.
Texas Education Code 38.003
Cedilla
Kinesthetic
Keith Stanovich
25. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept
Letter naming Chart
ESL
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Frank Smith
26. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.
Phonics approach
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
27. 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
Matthew Effect
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
GORT
Phonology
28. 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.
Expressive language
IEP
Suffix
GORT
29. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.
SBOE
Raw score
Analytic
Morphology
30. 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
Samuel T. Orton
Latin layer of language
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Visual Learners
31. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928
Great Vowel Shift
Modern English
ALTA
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
32. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
ALTA
Academic Achievement Tests
Great Vowel Shift
33. 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
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Chall's Stage 4
34. 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
Kinesthetic
Percentile
Modern English
35. A test in which the results can be used to determine a student's progress toward mastery of a content area. performance is compared to an expected level of mastery in a content area rather that to other student's scores. Such tests usually include qu
Norm-Referenced Test
Visual Processing
Criterion referenced tests
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
36. 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.
Standard deviation
Closed Syllable
Chall's Stage 1
Digraph
37. 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
Latin layer of language
Achievement test
Grapheme
Age equivalent
38. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.
Analytic
Combination
NICHD
Comprehension
39. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile
VV
VAKT
SBOE
Ability
40. A spoken or written unit that must have a vowel sound and that may include consonants that precede or follow that vowel. Syllables are units of sound made by one impulse of voice.
Percentile
Fluency
Syllable
V >
41. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships
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42. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies
Components of Reading Instruction
Universal Screening
Trigraph
Accent
43. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.
Composite Score
Phonology
Phoneme
Academic Achievement Tests
44. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
SBOE
Raw score
Consonant Digraph
Vr
45. 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
Phonics approach
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Sound Symbol Association
46. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.
Fluency
Norm-referenced tests
CTOPP
Macron
47. Individuals with a Disabilities Act
IDEA
Auditory Processing
The Norman Conquest
Cedilla
48. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view
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49. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound
Simultaneous teaching
Orthography
Vowel Digraph
Standardized test
50. Expects child to learn reading as "naturally" as speech - Uses child's oral language as content for reading - Uses child's oral language as basis for spelling instruction - Children learn to "read" by reading and re-reading "big books" together with
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