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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

Subject : certifications
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable






2. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others






3. 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.






4. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development






5. 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.






6. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






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






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






9. The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send picture or phonic/dictionary notation that indicates a long sound.






10. Selective focus on what is important while screening out distractions.






11. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder






12. 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.






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






14. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.






15. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.


16. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.






17. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies






18. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






19. 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.






20. Reading for Learning "the New" - Expand vocabularies - build background and world knowledge - develop strategic habits


21. 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






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. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.






24. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.






25. International Multisensory Structured Education Council






26. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children






27. 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






28. 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.






29. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.






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






31. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928






32. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.






33. Individuals with a Disabilities Act






34. 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.






35. 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






36. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.






37. A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of structural linguistics.






38. Test of Word Reading Efficiency. Screening test. measures an individual's ability to pronounce printed words accurately and fluently. Generates percentiles - standard scores - age equivalents - and grade equivalents.Decoding - Sight words






39. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U






40. 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.






41. Multisensory Structured Language Education






42. A score that describes student performance in terms of the statistical performance of an average student at a given grade level. Ranges from K.0 to 12.9 Are not a dependable representation of progress






43. 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






44. 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.






45. State Board of Eduation






46. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept






47. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.






48. 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.






49. Comprehensive end-of-year exams - reflecting the specific subject matter outlines in the curriculum.






50. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes