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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction
Components of Reading Instruction
Texas Education Code 28.06
Standard Scores
Sound Symbol Association
2. Ability to understand and express spoken language
Keith Stanovich
Oral Language
ESL
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
3. 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
Achievement test
Linguistic Method
Standard deviation
Phonology
4. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek
Vr
Progress Monitoring
Three Layers of Language
Syllable Instruction
5. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.
Base Word
Keith Stanovich
ALTA
Expressive language
6. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)
Standard Scores
Trigraph
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Accommodation
7. 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.
Combination
Stanine Scores
Synthetic Instruction
Norm-referenced tests
8. 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
Modern English
The Norman Conquest
Expressive language
Standard deviation
9. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.
Anglo Saxon
Vr
Auditory Processing
ALTA
10. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning
Macron
Composite Score
Anna Gillingham
Reading Comprehension Support
11. 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.
Multi-Sensory Approach
Modification
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Diagnostic Teaching
12. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies
Open Syllable
Tilde
Components of Reading Instruction
Prefix
13. Take frequent study breaks - move around to learn new things - work at a standing position - chew gum while standing - listen to music while studying - skim material first then read in detail
Oral Language
Syllable Instruction
Kinesthetic
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
14. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.
IDEA
Academic Achievement Tests
Texas Education Code 28.06
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
15. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Impulsivity
Syllable Instruction
Fluency
16. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.
17. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others
Diphthong
Simultaneous teaching
IMSLEC
Expressive language
18. 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.
Chall's Stage 5
Affix
Phoneme
Visual Learners
19. 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.
Receptive language
Keith Stanovich
Phonics
Samuel T. Orton
20. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships
21. Multisensory Structured Language
Standard score
Profile
MSL
Cognitive Assessment
22. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.
Derivative
Simultaneous teaching
Standard score
Chall's Stage 5
23. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)
WIATII
Auditory Learners
Whole Language
Quadrigraph
24. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.
Derivative
Orthography
Criterion referenced tests
Matthew Effect
25. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.
Age equivalent
Multisensory
Visual Processing
Mastery level
26. An ability test is designed to measure either your general intelligence or your mental aptitude in a particular area. For example
Orthography
VC
IMSLEC
Ability
27. The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send picture or phonic/dictionary notation that indicates a long sound.
Samuel T. Orton
Multisensory
Macron
Stanine Scores
28. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"
[-'le
Mastery level
Adolf Kusmaul
Phonology
29. 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
VV
Direct Instruction
ADHD
Multi-Sensory Approach
30. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children
Anna Gillingham
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Prefix
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
31. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view
32. Vowel - consonant - e syllable
NICHD
V-e
Accommodation
Anna Gillingham
33. Involve at least two people. It includes the ability to maintain eye contact - understand body language of others - take turns in a conversation - stick to the subject - and use oral language appropriate for the situation.
Social language
Auditory Processing
Dyslexia
IMSLEC
34. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Towre
Standardized test
Profile
35. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.
Syllable Instruction
Composite Score
Funding
Universal Screening
36. 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
Grade equivalents
Auditory Learners
Attention
Phonemic Awareness
37. 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
ESL
WRAT
James Hinshelwood
Prefix
38. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
Progress Monitoring
VC
Digraph
Phonics
39. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.
Great Vowel Shift
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Modification
Derivative
40. r-controlled syllable
Frank Smith
Visual Learners
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Vr
41. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language
ESL
Ability
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Rate
42. 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.
NICHD
Standard deviation
Tactile
Academic Achievement Tests
43. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile
Trigraph
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
VAKT
Matthew Effect
44. Reading for Learning "the New" - Expand vocabularies - build background and world knowledge - develop strategic habits
45. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.
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
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Whole Language
Phonology
Reliability
47. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.
VAKT
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Semantics
Mathew Effect
48. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test
Letter naming Chart
WIATII
Syllable Instruction
Standard score
49. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)
Open Syllable
Morpheme
Auditory Learners
Quadrigraph
50. One of a class of speech sounds in which sound moving through the vocal tract is constricted or obstructed by the lips - tongue or teeth during articulation.
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Diagnostic Teaching
Combination
Consonant