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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. 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






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






3. 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






4. Paired association between letters and letter sounds; an approach to teaching of reading and spelling that emphasizes sound-symbol relationships - especially in early instruction.






5. 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






6. State Board of Eduation






7. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.






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






9. 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.






10. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents






11. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder






12. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes






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






14. 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.






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






16. 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






17. International Multisensory Structured Education Council






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






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






20. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






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






22. 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 -






23. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.






24. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT






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






26. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning






27. 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






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






29. 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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30. 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






31. An ability test is designed to measure either your general intelligence or your mental aptitude in a particular area. For example






32. A type of derived score such that the distribution of these scores for a specified population has convenient known values for the mean and standard deviation.






33. 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)






34. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.






35. A significant unit of visual shape. We use the visual shape as to cover not only writing - but also any other shape perceived by the eye which is a visible representation of a unit of speech. A single graphic letter or letter cluster which represents






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






37. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






38. 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.






39. 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






40. 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.






41. Is one that provides for translating test scores into a statement about the behavior to be expected of a person with that score or their relationship to a specified subject matter. Most tests and quizzes written by school teachers are criterion-refer






42. Individuals with a Disabilities Act






43. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment






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

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45. 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






46. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time






47. 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.






48. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development

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






50. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia