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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies
Components of Reading Instruction
Modern English
Middle English
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
2. Individual Educational Plan
IEP
Phonics approach
Closed Syllable
Whole Language
3. Whole body learning
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Chall's Stage 3
Kinesthetic
Accent
4. 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.
Closed Syllable
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
Phonology
Top-down Reading Approach
5. 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
Syllable Instruction
Linguistic Method
IMSLEC
Criterion-Referenced Test
6. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.
Modern English
Affix
Norm-referenced tests
Multisensory
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.
Middle English
Modification
Three Layers of Language
Multisensory
8. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable
Chall's Stage 4
Suffix
Six basic types of syllables
CTOPP
9. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile
VAKT
Mastery level
Visual Processing
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
10. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others
VV
Expressive language
Standard deviation
Raw score
11. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.
Phonics
Grapheme
Multi-Sensory Approach
Progress Monitoring
12. An ability test is designed to measure either your general intelligence or your mental aptitude in a particular area. For example
Grapheme
Multisensory
Syllable Instruction
Ability
13. 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
Old English
James Hinshelwood
Sound Symbol Association
Auditory Processing
14. 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.
Standard Scores
Grade equivalents
Stanine Scores
Anglo Saxon
15. A pattern of letters (found in a single syllable) which occurs frequently together. The pronunciation of at least one of the component parts is unexpected or the letters stand in an unexpected sequence ( ar - er - ir - or - us - qu - wh)
Combination
Diphthong
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Synthetic Instruction
16. 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
Universal Screening
GORT
Closed Syllable
James Hinshelwood
17. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
ADHD
Frank Smith
Components of Reading Instruction
WRAT
18. 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
Consonant
Whole Language
Matthew Effect
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
19. 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
Affix
Orthography
Achievement test
Prefix
20. 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
The Norman Conquest
WIATII
Accuracy
21. International Multisensory Structured Education Council
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
IMSLEC
Letter naming Chart
22. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
Syllable
Digraph
WRAT
Diagnostic Teaching
23. Open syllable
WIATII
Expressive language
V >
Suffix
24. 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
Syntax
Morphology
WIATII
ADHD
25. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time
Social language
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Rate
Derivative
26. 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
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Six basic types of syllables
Norm-Referenced Test
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
27. 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
Attention
Towre
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Auditory Learners
28. Reading for Learning "the New" - Expand vocabularies - build background and world knowledge - develop strategic habits
29. 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.
Visual Processing
Greek layer of language
Syllable
SBOE
30. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.
Vowel Digraph
Texas Education Code 38.003
Great Vowel Shift
Mastery level
31. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Consonant Digraph
Derivative
32. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test
Semantics
Dyslexia
WIATII
Linguistic Method
33. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view
34. Inferential learning of a concept cannot be take for granted! Never assume!
Greek layer of language
Direct Instruction
Prefix
IMSLEC
35. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.
Reliability
Phonemic/ decodable words
MSLE
Joe Torgesen
36. Feeling through fingertips
Tactile
Modification
Profile
Accuracy
37. Confirmation and Fluency - Decoding skills - Fluency - additional strategies
38. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction
Texas Education Code 28.06
Norm-Referenced Test
Comprehension
Base Word
39. 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.
Suffix
Auditory Learners
Chall's Stage 4
Standard deviation
40. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)
Phonology
Base Word
Derived Score
Anna Gillingham
41. Closed syllable
Adolf Kusmaul
Attention
Phonics
VC
42. Was a pivotal event in English history. It largely removed the native ruling class - replacing it with a foreign - French-speaking monarchy - aristocracy - and clerical hierarchy. This - in turn - brought about a transformation of the English languag
Cognitive Assessment
The Norman Conquest
Orthography
Whole Language
43. r-controlled syllable
Vr
Synthetic Instruction
Closed Syllable
MSL
44. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Universal Screening
Morphology
Quadrigraph
45. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.
V >
ESL
Syntax
Phoneme
46. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.
VV
Analytic
Social language
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
47. 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
Pre-English
Derivative
Matthew Effect
Phonics approach
48. 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
Matthew Effect
Percentile/ percentile rank
Rate
Syntax
49. Selective focus on what is important while screening out distractions.
Attention
WRAT
Curriculum referenced tests
Anglo Saxon
50. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes
Derivative
Battery
VAKT
VC