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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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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. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program






2. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships

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3. An ability test is designed to measure either your general intelligence or your mental aptitude in a particular area. For example






4. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder






5. Ability to understand and express spoken language






6. Vowel - consonant - e syllable






7. Academic Language Therapy Association






8. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable






9. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents






10. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






11. 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






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






13. 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.






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






15. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.






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






17. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.






18. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development

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19. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning






20. 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.






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






22. 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






23. Proceeds from the whole to the part - suggests that processing of a text begins in the mind of the readers. Meaning is brought to print not derived from print.






24. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.






25. 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






26. 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.






27. 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.






28. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view

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29. English as a second language






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






31. 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






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






33. Alphabetic principle" and its relationship to phonemic awareness and phonological awareness in reading






34. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test






35. Is one that provides for translating test scores into a statement about the behavior to be expected of a person with that score or their relationship to a specified subject matter. Most tests and quizzes written by school teachers are criterion-refer






36. 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






37. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek






38. Feeling through fingertips






39. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)






40. Making sense of what we read. Comprehension is dependent on good word recognition - fluency - vocabulary - worldly knowledge - and language ability.






41. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language






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






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






44. Multisensory Structured Language Education






45. 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






46. 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)






47. 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.






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






49. 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.






50. 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.