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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.
Direct Instruction
Closed Syllable
Simultaneous teaching
Whole Language
2. 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
Reliability
V >
Standard Scores
Auditory Learners
3. A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of structural linguistics.
Age equivalent
Funding
Morpheme
Middle English
4. Comprehensive end-of-year exams - reflecting the specific subject matter outlines in the curriculum.
Whole Language
The Norman Conquest
Curriculum referenced tests
MSLE
5. 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
Whole Language
V-e
Combination
Vr
6. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test
Reliability
Universal Screening
Semantics
Multi-Sensory Approach
7. 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.
Ability
Auditory Learners
Cedilla
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
8. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
Visual Learners
Standard score
Chall's Stage 4
Digraph
9. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
NICHD
Standard score
Expressive language
10. International Multisensory Structured Education Council
VAKT
Expressive language
IMSLEC
Adolf Kusmaul
11. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality
MSL
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Chall's Stage 2
Syntax
12. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928
Modern English
Rate
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Reading Comprehension Support
13. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test
WIATII
Sound Symbol Association
Chall's Stage 2
Affix
14. Final stable syllable
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15. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships
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16. Selective focus on what is important while screening out distractions.
Direct Instruction
Diphthong
Reliability
Attention
17. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.
RTI
Kinesthetic
Closed Syllable
Comprehension
18. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.
Prefix
Whole Language
Breve
Dyslexia
19. 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.
Oral Language
Affix
Morphology
IEP
20. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek
Three Layers of Language
Texas Education Code 38.003
Accuracy
Matthew Effect
21. Closed syllable
VC
Accent
Three Layers of Language
WRAT
22. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.
Fluency
Chall's Stage 2
MSLE
Accent
23. Wide Range Achievement Test
WRAT
ADHD
Analytic
Orthography
24. 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
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Prefix
Diagnostic tests
Grapheme
25. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)
Quadrigraph
Texas Education Code 38.003
Age equivalent
Chall's Stage 3
26. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes
Derivative
V >
Chall's Stage 2
Open Syllable
27. Inferential learning of a concept cannot be take for granted! Never assume!
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Direct Instruction
Joe Torgesen
Mathew Effect
28. 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.
Chall's Stage 4
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Old English
29. 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.
Closed Syllable
Oral Language
VV
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
30. 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
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Suffix
Reading Comprehension Support
Latin layer of language
31. 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
Digraph
Greek layer of language
Ability
32. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Accommodation
Analytic
Sight Words
33. 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.
Phonology
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Accuracy
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
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.
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Phonological Awareness
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Stanine Scores
35. r-controlled syllable
Oral Language
Sight Words
Middle English
Vr
36. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.
Consonant
Texas Education Code 38.003
VAKT
RTI
37. 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.
Joe Torgesen
Accuracy
Breve
Sight Words
38. 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.
Consonant Digraph
Diagnostic Teaching
Phoneme
NICHD
39. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet
Letter naming Chart
Phonemic/ decodable words
ALTA
Battery
40. 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.
Chall's Stage 0
Suffix
Joe Torgesen
Morpheme
41. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.
Multisensory
Prefix
Accuracy
Trigraph
42. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words
Multi-Sensory Approach
Fluency
Phonological Awareness
Cognitive Assessment
43. 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
Criterion-Referenced Test
Achievement test
Old English
Quadrigraph
44. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS
Achievement test
Mathew Effect
Phonemic/ decodable words
V >
45. 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
Social language
ESL
Samuel T. Orton
46. 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
Percentile/ percentile rank
Modern English
Chall's Stage 2
Visual Learners
47. 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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48. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Diagnostic tests
Digraph
Six basic types of syllables
49. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)
Consonant Digraph
Accent
Trigraph
Adolf Kusmaul
50. The curved line placed beneath c to indicate its "soft" or (s) pronunciation - as opposed to its hard or (k) pronunciation. Students use the coding on c before the letters e - i - or y (the softeners) - to remind themselves to pronounced the (s) soun
Cedilla
Rate
Great Vowel Shift
Six basic types of syllables