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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Individual Educational Plan
Anglo Saxon
IEP
Chall's Stage 0
Composite Score
2. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.
Chall's Stage 0
Analytic
Phonemic Awareness
Universal Screening
3. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes
Morphology
Trigraph
Percentile
Accent
4. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.
Pre-English
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Raw score
Cedilla
5. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test
V-e
Expressive language
[-'le
WIATII
6. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.
Base Word
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Syllable Instruction
VAKT
7. Individuals with a Disabilities Act
Prefix
Percentile/ percentile rank
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
IDEA
8. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)
Trigraph
Chall's Stage 0
VV
ESL
9. Open syllable
V >
ADHD
Academic Achievement Tests
Chall's Stage 0
10. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.
Ability
Orthography
Impulsivity
Composite Score
11. 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
VC
Fluency
Adolf Kusmaul
GORT
12. Closed syllable
VC
Chall's Stage 4
Samuel T. Orton
Reliability
13. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
ADHD
V >
Matthew Effect
VC
14. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel
Closed Syllable
Impulsivity
Diagnostic tests
Adolf Kusmaul
15. English as a second language
ESL
Letter naming Chart
V-e
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
16. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development
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17. 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.
Suffix
Anglo Saxon
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
IDEA
18. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents
CTOPP
The Norman Conquest
Prefix
Ability
19. Wide Range Achievement Test
Linguistic Method
Analytic
WRAT
Ability
20. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Breve
Simultaneous teaching
Base Word
21. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek
Phonics
Modification
Matthew Effect
Three Layers of Language
22. 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
Matthew Effect
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Norm-Referenced Test
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
23. Vowel - consonant - e syllable
Chall's Stage 5
Texas Education Code 38.003
V-e
Multisensory
24. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.
Latin layer of language
Kinesthetic
WRAT
Analytic
25. Paired association between letters and letter sounds; an approach to teaching of reading and spelling that emphasizes sound-symbol relationships - especially in early instruction.
Grade equivalents
Vowel
Phonics
Chall's Stage 3
26. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile
Percentile
VAKT
Derived Score
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
27. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
Suffix
Mathew Effect
Academic Achievement Tests
28. 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
Percentile/ percentile rank
Vowel Digraph
Anna Gillingham
Age equivalent
29. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.
Comprehension
Syllable Instruction
Stanine Scores
Social language
30. A test in which the results can be used to determine a student's progress toward mastery of a content area. performance is compared to an expected level of mastery in a content area rather that to other student's scores. Such tests usually include qu
Grapheme
Adolf Kusmaul
Syntax
Criterion referenced tests
31. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.
Standard deviation
Visual Processing
Multi-Sensory Approach
Stanine Scores
32. 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.
Accommodation
Norm-referenced tests
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
33. listening - remembering - and understanding what someone else says.
Comprehension
Multi-Sensory Approach
MSLE
Receptive language
34. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.
MSL
Phonemic/ decodable words
James Hinshelwood
ESL
35. 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.
Diagnostic Teaching
Multisensory
Greek layer of language
Visual Learners
36. 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)
James Hinshelwood
Components of Reading Instruction
Quadrigraph
Combination
37. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept
Frank Smith
Visual Learners
Keith Stanovich
Three Layers of Language
38. 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
SBOE
Grade equivalents
Criterion-Referenced Test
Consonant
39. Multisensory Structured Language Education
Chall's Stage 0
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
MSLE
Vowel
40. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)
Fluency
Top-down Reading Approach
Quadrigraph
Progress Monitoring
41. 1925 - Coined the term "strephosymbolia" which means twisted symbols; Pathologist - neurologist and psychitrist in the US - studied with Dr. Alzheimer in Germany - work influenced by James Hinshelwood
Samuel T. Orton
Prefix
Six basic types of syllables
Vowel
42. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet
James Hinshelwood
Anglo Saxon
Accent
Letter naming Chart
43. 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
Grapheme
Raw score
Semantics
44. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.
Semantics
RTI
Kinesthetic
Suffix
45. 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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46. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality
Synthetic Instruction
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
WIATII
Diagnostic tests
47. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes
Derivative
Derived Score
VC
Greek layer of language
48. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.
Syllable Instruction
Middle English
Greek layer of language
CTOPP
49. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.
RTI
IDEA
Chall's Stage 0
Standardized test
50. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children
Chall's Stage 4
Norm-referenced tests
Academic Achievement Tests
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan