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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. 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
Curriculum referenced tests
VC
Norm-Referenced Test
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
2. Nationally known for research on both the prevention and remediation of reading difficulties in young children as well as work on assessment of phonological awareness and reading
Syllable
Composite Score
Joe Torgesen
Towre
3. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.
Accuracy
Latin layer of language
Vr
Norm-referenced tests
4. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U
ESL
Vowel
Cognition
MSL
5. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.
Six basic types of syllables
Kinesthetic
Analytic
Chall's Stage 0
6. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound
Funding
Vowel Digraph
Criterion-Referenced Test
Age equivalent
7. 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
Prefix
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Vowel
Expressive language
8. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.
RTI
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Breve
Social language
9. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.
Percentile
Multisensory
Mastery level
Fluency
10. English as a second language
ESL
Old English
CTOPP
Universal Screening
11. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.
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12. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes
Morphology
Impulsivity
Expressive language
Diagnostic tests
13. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Age equivalent
Visual Processing
IMSLEC
ADHD
14. 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.
Accommodation
Anglo Saxon
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
15. Federal Law. Nondiscrimination on the basis of handicap in programs receiving federal $$ - Civil Rights Law - to protect people with disabilities by allowing full participation in the workplace.
Impulsivity
Vowel
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Towre
16. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.
Oral Language
Sound Symbol Association
Progress Monitoring
Phonics approach
17. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.
Chall's Stage 5
Stanine Scores
Tactile
Fluency
18. 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.
Diphthong
Top-down Reading Approach
Old English
Syllable
19. 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.
Diagnostic Teaching
Expressive language
Universal Screening
VV
20. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.
Semantics
Modification
Digraph
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
21. 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.
Phoneme
Sight Words
Direct Instruction
Standard score
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
IMSLEC
Linguistic Method
Chall's Stage 3
Funding
23. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.
CTOPP
Standard score
Phonemic Awareness
RTI
24. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)
V-e
Simultaneous teaching
Open Syllable
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
25. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.
Texas Education Code 28.06
Syntax
Whole Language
Multisensory
26. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.
Morphology
Digraph
Modern English
Base Word
27. Whole body learning
Mathew Effect
Kinesthetic
Great Vowel Shift
NICHD
28. State Board of Eduation
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Morpheme
SBOE
Syllable
29. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes
Derivative
V >
Vowel Digraph
MSLE
30. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
Multi-Sensory Approach
Consonant Digraph
Criterion-Referenced Test
Semantics
31. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development
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32. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.
Standard Scores
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Morpheme
Visual Processing
33. The percentile score on - for example - a test is the score that represents the percent of other scores to or lower than is. If a student performs in the 85% of his or her class - it means the 85% of the other scores of students who also took the tes
Tactile
Percentile/ percentile rank
Consonant Digraph
Letter naming Chart
34. A diacritical marking. A wavy line placed over any vowel before r in a combination to indicate the unaccented pronunciation eg letter. The tildes used both in coding words and in a sound picture. When the pronunciation of any unaccented vowel-r combi
Tilde
Cognition
Adolf Kusmaul
Stanine Scores
35. 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
Impulsivity
MSLE
ESL
Achievement test
36. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view
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37. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words
Joe Torgesen
Phonological Awareness
Kinesthetic
Fluency
38. 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.
Digraph
Consonant
Suffix
Components of Reading Instruction
39. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Cedilla
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Academic Achievement Tests
40. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.
Universal Screening
Phonological Awareness
Phonemic/ decodable words
Standardized test
41. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel
Impulsivity
Attention
Adolf Kusmaul
V-e
42. r-controlled syllable
Phonics approach
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
Vr
Cognitive Assessment
43. 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.
Top-down Reading Approach
Vr
Phonemic Awareness
Reliability
44. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.
Prefix
Synthetic Instruction
Universal Screening
Ability
45. The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send picture or phonic/dictionary notation that indicates a long sound.
Accent
Dyslexia
Macron
Chall's Stage 2
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
Frank Smith
Whole Language
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Accommodation
47. Closed syllable
VC
Phonology
Consonant
V-e
48. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)
Curriculum referenced tests
Modification
Quadrigraph
Fluency
49. Feeling through fingertips
Affix
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
WRAT
Tactile
50. 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
Fluency
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Six basic types of syllables
The Norman Conquest