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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. 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.
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Accent
Frank Smith
Mathew Effect
2. Final stable syllable
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3. Was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in England between 1350 and 1500.[1] This was first studied by Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) - a Danish linguist and Anglicist - who coined the term. Because English spellin
Great Vowel Shift
Mathew Effect
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Achievement test
4. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view
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5. A test in which a student's performance is compared to that of a norm group. Often used to measure and compare students - schools - districts and states.
Mastery level
Norm-referenced tests
Syntax
Tilde
6. 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.
Top-down Reading Approach
VV
Accommodation
Phonemic/ decodable words
7. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928
Phonemic Awareness
IEP
Modern English
Base Word
8. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes
VV
Derivative
Towre
Digraph
9. International Multisensory Structured Education Council
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
IMSLEC
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
10. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.
Universal Screening
Multi-Sensory Approach
Cedilla
Anna Gillingham
11. 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
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Towre
Accommodation
ADHD
12. 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
CTOPP
Frank Smith
James Hinshelwood
Phonological Awareness
13. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)
Macron
Quadrigraph
Fluency
Achievement test
14. 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
Linguistic Method
Middle English
Latin layer of language
WIATII
15. 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
Simultaneous teaching
V >
Comprehension
16. 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
Base Word
Grade equivalents
Texas Education Code 28.06
Percentile/ percentile rank
17. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Matthew Effect
VV
ESL
ADHD
18. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.
Multisensory
Percentile/ percentile rank
Mathew Effect
Norm-Referenced Test
19. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test
Reliability
Chall's Stage 1
Matthew Effect
Standard score
20. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.
SBOE
Profile
Matthew Effect
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
21. A type of derived score such that the distribution of these scores for a specified population has convenient known values for the mean and standard deviation.
Simultaneous teaching
Standard Scores
Reading Comprehension Support
VV
22. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
VC
Kinesthetic
Mastery level
23. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)
Profile
Percentile
Combination
Trigraph
24. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.
Percentile
Modern English
Oral Language
Vowel
25. 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.
Morpheme
VAKT
IEP
Suffix
26. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.
Raw score
Morphology
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Quadrigraph
27. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time
Rate
Composite Score
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
WRAT
28. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Greek layer of language
Diagnostic Teaching
Attention
29. Stress or emphasis on one syllable in a word or on one or more words in a phrase or sentence. The accented part is spoken louder - longer - and/or in a higher tone. The speaker's mouth opens wider while saying an accented syllable.
Suffix
Accent
Visual Learners
Norm-referenced tests
30. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.
Visual Processing
Diagnostic Teaching
IDEA
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
31. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
Comprehension
Digraph
Auditory Processing
Tactile
32. 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.
Consonant
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Attention
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
33. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound
Diagnostic Teaching
Vowel Digraph
Morphology
Open Syllable
34. Whole body learning
Kinesthetic
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Chall's Stage 3
Synthetic Instruction
35. 1930 - Psychologist and teacher in New York; along with Samuel T. Orton at Columbia University - developed a non-traditional approach to teaching written language skills. Trained one teacher at a time. began working with Sally Childs and trained 50 t
Prefix
Anna Gillingham
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
Multi-Sensory Approach
36. Effective for special needs - Uses all possible senses - tracing - saying - listening - looking - Typically called VAKT - Visual - Auditory - Kinesthetic - Tactile - Can be used with either Phonics or Whole Language
Diphthong
Multi-Sensory Approach
Profile
Joe Torgesen
37. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)
Texas Education Code 38.003
Diphthong
Quadrigraph
Adolf Kusmaul
38. State Board of Eduation
The Norman Conquest
SBOE
Auditory Processing
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
39. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.
IMSLEC
Diphthong
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Syllable Instruction
40. 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.
Frank Smith
Phonics approach
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Old English
41. Academic Language Therapy Association
ALTA
VC
Texas Education Code 28.06
Visual Processing
42. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.
Latin layer of language
Vr
Stanine Scores
Closed Syllable
43. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment
Anglo Saxon
VV
Phonology
Letter naming Chart
44. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others
WIATII
Chall's Stage 2
Expressive language
Multi-Sensory Approach
45. The process of systematically gathering test scores and related data in order to make judgement about an individuals ability to perform various mental activities involved in the processing - acquisition - retention - conceptualization - and organizat
Suffix
Visual Learners
Cognitive Assessment
Digraph
46. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children
Morpheme
Digraph
IEP
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
47. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.
Top-down Reading Approach
Modification
Standard deviation
Receptive language
48. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning
Six basic types of syllables
Reading Comprehension Support
Latin layer of language
Visual Learners
49. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.
Accuracy
Accommodation
Visual Processing
Chall's Stage 3
50. 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.
Phonology
Composite Score
Syllable
Multi-Sensory Approach