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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. English as a second language
Grade equivalents
ESL
Samuel T. Orton
Chall's Stage 1
2. Ability to think reason and solve problems. Skills are usually measured by an individual test of intelligence/IQ test. Requires being able to generalize from past experience and use that knowledge to respond to new situations.
Latin layer of language
VC
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Cognition
3. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.
Diagnostic Teaching
Latin layer of language
Tactile
Raw score
4. 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
Great Vowel Shift
Chall's Stage 3
Chall's Stage 0
5. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)
Sound Symbol Association
Quadrigraph
Standardized test
Standard Scores
6. The curved diacritical mark above a vowel in a sound picture or phonic/dictionary symbol notation that indicates a short sound in a closed syllable in which at least one consonant comes after the vowel in the same syllable.
Chall's Stage 0
Syllable
Mathew Effect
Breve
7. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.
Texas Education Code 28.06
Phonemic/ decodable words
Top-down Reading Approach
Consonant
8. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.
Phoneme
Impulsivity
Base Word
Ability
9. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)
Anglo Saxon
Visual Processing
Old English
Open Syllable
10. 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
Consonant
Auditory Learners
GORT
Standard score
11. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning
Criterion referenced tests
Morphology
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Reading Comprehension Support
12. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.
Samuel T. Orton
Simultaneous teaching
Semantics
VV
13. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents
Phonemic Awareness
Composite Score
Kinesthetic
CTOPP
14. A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of structural linguistics.
Morpheme
Texas Education Code 38.003
Tilde
Suffix
15. International Multisensory Structured Education Council
SBOE
IMSLEC
Standardized test
James Hinshelwood
16. Closed syllable
Letter naming Chart
VC
Diphthong
Prefix
17. 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.
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Phonemic Awareness
Keith Stanovich
Digraph
18. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.
IDEA
Rate
Sound Symbol Association
V-e
19. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy
Grapheme
Breve
Diphthong
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
20. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Consonant Digraph
Universal Screening
Tactile
21. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.
Texas Education Code 28.06
Prefix
Dyslexia
Multisensory
22. 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.
Percentile/ percentile rank
[-'le
Latin layer of language
Standard deviation
23. The ancient Britons (Celts) conquered by Caesar in 54 c.e. - Celtic and Latin languages co-exist - Teutonic tribes (Jutes - Angles and Saxons invade) - Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Pre-English
Chall's Stage 1
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Chall's Stage 3
24. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound
Standardized test
Impulsivity
Keith Stanovich
Vowel Digraph
25. 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.
Chall's Stage 5
Social language
Battery
Anglo Saxon
26. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.
Suffix
Grade equivalents
Stanine Scores
Multisensory
27. 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
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Vowel Digraph
Affix
28. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.
Top-down Reading Approach
Accuracy
Stanine Scores
Achievement test
29. 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.
Accent
WRAT
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Synthetic Instruction
30. Whole body learning
Phonics
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Kinesthetic
Synthetic Instruction
31. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"
Greek layer of language
Adolf Kusmaul
Whole Language
Affix
32. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment
Phonology
Prefix
Matthew Effect
WRAT
33. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes
Whole Language
Standard score
VC
Morphology
34. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.
Phonemic/ decodable words
Syllable Instruction
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
35. 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.
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Consonant
Expressive language
Old English
36. 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
Universal Screening
Macron
Age equivalent
37. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.
Great Vowel Shift
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Progress Monitoring
Visual Processing
38. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.
Standard score
ALTA
NICHD
Six basic types of syllables
39. 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)
Syllable Instruction
Combination
Old English
Grade equivalents
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.
Expressive language
Sight Words
Composite Score
Macron
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
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Impulsivity
Phonemic Awareness
Macron
42. 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.
Top-down Reading Approach
IEP
WIATII
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
43. Paired association between letters and letter sounds; an approach to teaching of reading and spelling that emphasizes sound-symbol relationships - especially in early instruction.
Phonics
Orthography
Tilde
Combination
44. Multisensory Structured Language Education
MSLE
Phonics approach
Synthetic Instruction
Joe Torgesen
45. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia
Criterion-Referenced Test
Pre-English
Semantics
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
46. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile
Matthew Effect
VAKT
Open Syllable
Adolf Kusmaul
47. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)
Great Vowel Shift
Norm-referenced tests
Trigraph
Universal Screening
48. 1930 - Psychologist and teacher in New York; along with Samuel T. Orton at Columbia University - developed a non-traditional approach to teaching written language skills. Trained one teacher at a time. began working with Sally Childs and trained 50 t
Anna Gillingham
SBOE
Whole Language
Cognition
49. 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
Old English
Six basic types of syllables
Criterion referenced tests
Visual Learners
50. 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
Multi-Sensory Approach
Cognitive Assessment
Standard deviation
Macron
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