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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. International Multisensory Structured Education Council






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. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet






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






5. 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.






6. 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.






7. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek






8. Individuals with a Disabilities Act






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






10. State Board of Eduation






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






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






13. 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.






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






15. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






16. 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.






17. Open syllable






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






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






20. 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






21. Academic Language Therapy Association






22. 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






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






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






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






26. Was a pivotal event in English history. It largely removed the native ruling class - replacing it with a foreign - French-speaking monarchy - aristocracy - and clerical hierarchy. This - in turn - brought about a transformation of the English languag






27. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder






28. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development






29. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"






30. Individual Educational Plan






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






32. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test






33. 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.






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






35. 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.






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






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






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






39. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability






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






41. Whole body learning






42. Wide Range Achievement Test






43. English as a second language






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






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






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






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






48. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound






49. Feeling through fingertips






50. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others