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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

Subject : certifications
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.






2. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






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






4. 1904 - reported 2 cases of "congenital word blindness" - called for schools to establish procedures for screening as well as appropriate teaching of those that were identified with congenital word-blindness






5. listening - remembering - and understanding what someone else says.






6. 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






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






8. Whole body learning






9. English as a second language






10. 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.






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






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






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






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






15. 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.






16. Open syllable






17. 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






18. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test






19. 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






20. Gray Oral Reading Test-Fourth Edition Screening test. Provides an efficient and objective measure of growth in oral reading and an aid in the diagnosis of oral reading difficulties Standard Scores - Percentile Ranks - Grade Equivalents - Age Equivale






21. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.

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22. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept






23. Is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the






24. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction






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






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






27. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability






28. 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)






29. 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






30. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)






31. One of a class of speech sounds in which sound moving through the vocal tract is constricted or obstructed by the lips - tongue or teeth during articulation.






32. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.






33. Confirmation and Fluency - Decoding skills - Fluency - additional strategies

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34. 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.






35. 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.






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

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37. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.






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






39. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children






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






41. Feeling through fingertips






42. 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






43. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)






44. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.






45. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.






46. r-controlled syllable






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






48. 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.






49. 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.






50. A term coined by Stanovich to describe a phenomenon observed in findings of cumulative advantage for children who read well and have good vocabulary and cumulative disadvantage for those who have inadequate vocabularies and read less and thus have lo