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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. 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.






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






3. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)






4. 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.






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






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






7. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)






8. Ability to understand and express spoken language






9. Multisensory Structured Language






10. Individuals with a Disabilities Act






11. Was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in England between 1350 and 1500.[1] This was first studied by Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) - a Danish linguist and Anglicist - who coined the term. Because English spellin






12. 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.






13. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.

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14. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept






15. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek






16. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.






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






18. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile






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






20. 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.






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






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






23. 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)






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

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25. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.






26. 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.






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






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






29. 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 -






30. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






31. 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






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






33. 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.






34. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.






35. Final stable syllable

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36. 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






37. 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






38. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development

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






40. 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






41. 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.






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






43. 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






44. 1925 - Coined the term "strephosymbolia" which means twisted symbols; Pathologist - neurologist and psychitrist in the US - studied with Dr. Alzheimer in Germany - work influenced by James Hinshelwood






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






46. 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






47. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.






48. 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






49. 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






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