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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents






2. A test in which a student's performance is compared to that of a norm group. Often used to measure and compare students - schools - districts and states.






3. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)






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

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5. State Board of Eduation






6. 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






7. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others






8. 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






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

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10. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.






11. 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






12. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.






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






14. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction






15. Ability to think reason and solve problems. Skills are usually measured by an individual test of intelligence/IQ test. Requires being able to generalize from past experience and use that knowledge to respond to new situations.






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






17. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program






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






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






20. 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






21. 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 -






22. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable






23. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test






24. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.






25. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.






26. International Multisensory Structured Education Council






27. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS






28. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.






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






30. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.






31. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.






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






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. Closed syllable






35. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words






36. Federal Law. Nondiscrimination on the basis of handicap in programs receiving federal $$ - Civil Rights Law - to protect people with disabilities by allowing full participation in the workplace.






37. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






38. One of a class of speech sounds in which sound moving through the vocal tract is constricted or obstructed by the lips - tongue or teeth during articulation.






39. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.






40. 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.






41. Comprehensive end-of-year exams - reflecting the specific subject matter outlines in the curriculum.






42. Final stable syllable

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






44. Multisensory Structured Language Education






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






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






47. English as a second language






48. 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






49. Test of Word Reading Efficiency. Screening test. measures an individual's ability to pronounce printed words accurately and fluently. Generates percentiles - standard scores - age equivalents - and grade equivalents.Decoding - Sight words






50. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development