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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Individual Educational Plan






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






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.






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






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






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.






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.






8. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children






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






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






11. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.






12. English as a second language






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.






14. Multisensory Structured Language Education






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






16. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






17. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.






18. The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send picture or phonic/dictionary notation that indicates a long sound.






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






20. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.






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






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.






23. Whole body learning






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.






25. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept






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.






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






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.






29. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.






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






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






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






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.






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.






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






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.






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






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






39. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile






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.






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






43. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.






44. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






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.






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






47. Individuals with a Disabilities Act






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

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49. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound






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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