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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. 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
ESL
The Norman Conquest
Grade equivalents
Syntax
2. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Affix
Phoneme
Norm-referenced tests
3. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words
V >
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Chall's Stage 4
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
4. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies
Chall's Stage 4
Oral Language
Diagnostic Teaching
Components of Reading Instruction
5. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Three Layers of Language
Dyslexia
Universal Screening
6. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.
Norm-referenced tests
Cognitive Assessment
Prefix
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
7. Children may be physical and socially immature - may be awkward in social situations - may have difficulty reading social cues - may have trouble finding the right words - stammering. - may feel anxious in school
Semantics
Quadrigraph
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
James Hinshelwood
8. 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
Pre-English
Grapheme
Whole Language
Syllable Instruction
9. 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
Criterion-Referenced Test
Fluency
Dyslexia
Phonics approach
10. 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.
Syllable
Old English
ADHD
Standard deviation
11. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes
Auditory Learners
Great Vowel Shift
Derivative
Impulsivity
12. 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.
Accuracy
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
ALTA
Breve
13. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)
Trigraph
ALTA
NICHD
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
14. Paired association between letters and letter sounds; an approach to teaching of reading and spelling that emphasizes sound-symbol relationships - especially in early instruction.
Battery
Tactile
Trigraph
Phonics
15. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.
Top-down Reading Approach
Mastery level
Affix
Rate
16. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Cognitive Assessment
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Norm-Referenced Test
17. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928
Cognitive Assessment
Sight Words
Modern English
NICHD
18. 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.
Linguistic Method
Middle English
Chall's Stage 5
Syllable
19. The ancient Britons (Celts) conquered by Caesar in 54 c.e. - Celtic and Latin languages co-exist - Teutonic tribes (Jutes - Angles and Saxons invade) - Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Adolf Kusmaul
Mathew Effect
Pre-English
ALTA
20. 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
Simultaneous teaching
Sound Symbol Association
Anna Gillingham
GORT
21. 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
Texas Education Code 38.003
Base Word
Accuracy
Phonics approach
22. Alphabetic principle" and its relationship to phonemic awareness and phonological awareness in reading
Visual Processing
Phonology
VAKT
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
23. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.
Phonological Awareness
Digraph
Phonemic/ decodable words
NICHD
24. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound
Affix
WIATII
Top-down Reading Approach
Vowel Digraph
25. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.
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26. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.
Fluency
Standardized test
Base Word
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
27. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Chall's Stage 5
WIATII
Texas Education Code 28.06
ADHD
28. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel
Impulsivity
Vowel
Comprehension
Social language
29. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Chall's Stage 5
Percentile/ percentile rank
Texas Education Code 28.06
30. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.
Simultaneous teaching
Tilde
ESL
Profile
31. Whole body learning
Consonant Digraph
Tactile
Breve
Kinesthetic
32. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes
Digraph
Morphology
Stanine Scores
Quadrigraph
33. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language
WIATII
Top-down Reading Approach
Sound Symbol Association
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
34. State Board of Education Rule - District Board of Trustees must make sure dyslexia procedures are given to the district. - District must use SBOE approved strategies for screening and treating dyslexia
Six basic types of syllables
Base Word
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Grapheme
35. Making sense of what we read. Comprehension is dependent on good word recognition - fluency - vocabulary - worldly knowledge - and language ability.
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Ability
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Comprehension
36. 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
Modification
Auditory Learners
Base Word
37. 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.
Diagnostic Teaching
Old English
Diphthong
Semantics
38. 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
Combination
Chall's Stage 0
Joe Torgesen
Texas Education Code 38.003
39. English as a second language
Phonics
V-e
ESL
IDEA
40. Feeling through fingertips
Top-down Reading Approach
Tactile
Trigraph
Attention
41. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.
Attention
Six basic types of syllables
Closed Syllable
Sound Symbol Association
42. 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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43. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.
Sight Words
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Percentile
44. Comprehensive end-of-year exams - reflecting the specific subject matter outlines in the curriculum.
IEP
RTI
Curriculum referenced tests
V-e
45. 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.
Standardized test
Diagnostic Teaching
Kinesthetic
Texas Education Code 38.003
46. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.
Age equivalent
Vowel Digraph
Digraph
Adolf Kusmaul
47. 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
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Social language
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
48. 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
Cedilla
Texas Education Code 28.06
Texas Education Code 38.003
Matthew Effect
49. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Prefix
Frank Smith
Reliability
50. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Stanine Scores
ESL
Modification
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