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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

Subject : certifications
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.






2. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes






3. Individuals with a Disabilities Act






4. English as a second language






5. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.






6. 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






7. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language






8. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.






9. listening - remembering - and understanding what someone else says.






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






11. 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.






12. A group of several test standardized on the same sample population so that results on the several tests are comparable. Example : School achievement tests






13. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.






14. 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.






15. A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of structural linguistics.






16. 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.






17. Inferential learning of a concept cannot be take for granted! Never assume!






18. 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






19. 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.






20. 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






21. 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.






22. 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






23. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test






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






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






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






27. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek






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






29. Final stable syllable

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30. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder






31. 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.






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






33. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.






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






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






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






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






38. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes






39. Children may be physical and socially immature - may be awkward in social situations - may have difficulty reading social cues - may have trouble finding the right words - stammering. - may feel anxious in school






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






41. Nationally known for research on both the prevention and remediation of reading difficulties in young children as well as work on assessment of phonological awareness and reading






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






43. 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.






44. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words






45. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT






46. 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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47. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.






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.






49. Multisensory Structured Language






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