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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Whole body learning
Criterion referenced tests
Battery
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Kinesthetic
2. 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.
Phonics approach
Percentile/ percentile rank
Anglo Saxon
Closed Syllable
3. The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send picture or phonic/dictionary notation that indicates a long sound.
Chall's Stage 2
Macron
Simultaneous teaching
IDEA
4. 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
Three Layers of Language
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Funding
Social language
5. Most soundly supported by research for effective instruction in beginning reading - Must be explicitly taught - Must be systematically organized and sequenced - Must include learning how to blend sounds together
Curriculum referenced tests
Letter naming Chart
Greek layer of language
Phonics approach
6. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.
Auditory Processing
Fluency
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Grade equivalents
7. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U
Mastery level
Chall's Stage 5
Vowel
Joe Torgesen
8. A spoken or written unit that must have a vowel sound and that may include consonants that precede or follow that vowel. Syllables are units of sound made by one impulse of voice.
MSL
Syllable
Dyslexia
Vowel
9. Reading for Learning "the New" - Expand vocabularies - build background and world knowledge - develop strategic habits
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10. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development
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11. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.
Profile
Accommodation
WRAT
Tactile
12. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.
Morpheme
ALTA
Semantics
ADHD
13. 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
SBOE
Chall's Stage 4
Achievement test
Profile
14. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children
Phonics approach
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Simultaneous teaching
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
15. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.
Modification
Texas Education Code 38.003
Dyslexia
Vowel
16. 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.
Old English
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
Macron
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
17. A group of several test standardized on the same sample population so that results on the several tests are comparable. Example : School achievement tests
Rate
Battery
Achievement test
Modification
18. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.
Standard score
Vowel
Greek layer of language
Texas Education Code 38.003
19. Tests used to identify the nature and source of an individual's educational - psychological - or medical difficulties or disabilities in order to facilitate correction or remediation.
Synthetic Instruction
Quadrigraph
Comprehension
Diagnostic tests
20. 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
Orthography
NICHD
Macron
Joe Torgesen
21. 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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22. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.
Phonology
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Base Word
23. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Towre
Composite Score
24. Wide Range Achievement Test
WRAT
ESL
Percentile
Modern English
25. 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.
Linguistic Method
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Chall's Stage 5
Keith Stanovich
26. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept
Matthew Effect
Dyslexia
Mastery level
Frank Smith
27. Alphabetic principle" and its relationship to phonemic awareness and phonological awareness in reading
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Synthetic Instruction
Matthew Effect
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
28. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.
Accuracy
Expressive language
Achievement test
Academic Achievement Tests
29. 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.
Linguistic Method
Components of Reading Instruction
Visual Processing
Top-down Reading Approach
30. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others
Expressive language
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Old English
Visual Processing
31. Inferential learning of a concept cannot be take for granted! Never assume!
Direct Instruction
Fluency
Standardized test
Consonant Digraph
32. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment
Texas Education Code 28.06
Suffix
Standard Scores
Phonology
33. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.
Universal Screening
Tilde
Top-down Reading Approach
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
34. 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
The Norman Conquest
Diagnostic Teaching
Funding
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
35. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.
Matthew Effect
Trigraph
Academic Achievement Tests
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
36. 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
Diphthong
Direct Instruction
WIATII
Great Vowel Shift
37. 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.
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Comprehension
Tactile
Vowel Digraph
38. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)
Percentile/ percentile rank
Open Syllable
Sound Symbol Association
Texas Education Code 28.06
39. 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.
Sound Symbol Association
Breve
MSLE
Grapheme
40. 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.
V >
Accuracy
Consonant
Affix
41. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness
Top-down Reading Approach
Visual Processing
Quadrigraph
Phonemic Awareness
42. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Stanine Scores
Diagnostic Teaching
Rate
43. 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
Criterion-Referenced Test
Grapheme
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
WRAT
44. Open syllable
Direct Instruction
Syllable Instruction
Chall's Stage 2
V >
45. 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
GORT
Quadrigraph
CTOPP
46. Paired association between letters and letter sounds; an approach to teaching of reading and spelling that emphasizes sound-symbol relationships - especially in early instruction.
Greek layer of language
Phonics
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Texas Education Code 38.003
47. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality
Breve
Latin layer of language
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
48. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS
Tilde
Cognition
Age equivalent
Mathew Effect
49. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile
Phonological Awareness
GORT
VAKT
Closed Syllable
50. 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
Percentile/ percentile rank
Criterion-Referenced Test
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Matthew Effect