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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. 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






2. 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






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






4. 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.






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






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

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7. Vowel - consonant - e syllable






8. 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






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






10. 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.






11. 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.






12. 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.






13. 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)






14. 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






15. 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 -






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






17. International Multisensory Structured Education Council






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






19. Supported only by "qualitative research" instead of quantitative research - Teaches "whole words" in word families - Students are not explicitly taught that there is a relationship between letters and sounds for most sounds






20. 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






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

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






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






24. 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.






25. 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






26. 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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27. 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.






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






29. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words






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






31. 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






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






33. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development

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






35. 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.






36. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children






37. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words






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






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






40. 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.






41. 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.






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






43. 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






44. 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.






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






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






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






48. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






49. State Board of Eduation






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