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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness






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






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






4. Reading for Learning "the New" - Expand vocabularies - build background and world knowledge - develop strategic habits

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5. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928






6. The term is also used for the language now called Old English - spoken and written by the ________ and their descendants in much of what is now England and some of southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century.






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






8. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.






9. Stress or emphasis on one syllable in a word or on one or more words in a phrase or sentence. The accented part is spoken louder - longer - and/or in a higher tone. The speaker's mouth opens wider while saying an accented syllable.






10. The curved line placed beneath c to indicate its "soft" or (s) pronunciation - as opposed to its hard or (k) pronunciation. Students use the coding on c before the letters e - i - or y (the softeners) - to remind themselves to pronounced the (s) soun






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






12. 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






13. 1930 - Psychologist and teacher in New York; along with Samuel T. Orton at Columbia University - developed a non-traditional approach to teaching written language skills. Trained one teacher at a time. began working with Sally Childs and trained 50 t






14. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek






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






16. 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






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






18. 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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19. 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






20. Academic Language Therapy Association






21. State Board of Eduation






22. 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.






23. Selective focus on what is important while screening out distractions.






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

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25. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children






26. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.






27. 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.






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






29. 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.






30. Feeling through fingertips






31. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment






32. 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






33. 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.






34. 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






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






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






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






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






39. Alphabetic principle" and its relationship to phonemic awareness and phonological awareness in reading






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






41. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships

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42. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development






43. Is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the






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






45. 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






46. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words






47. Taught visual to auditory - Taught auditory to visual - Students should also master blending of sounds into words and as well segmenting whole words into individual sounds.






48. 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.






49. 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.






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