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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Set of principles that dictate the sequence and function of words in a sentence in order to convey meaning - must include grammar - sentence types - and mechanics of language
Battery
ADHD
Syntax
Receptive language
2. 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
Vowel Digraph
Chall's Stage 1
Criterion referenced tests
Visual Processing
3. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.
MSLE
[-'le
Macron
Fluency
4. 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.
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Samuel T. Orton
Standard Scores
Visual Learners
5. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.
Standard score
Anglo Saxon
Quadrigraph
VV
6. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view
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7. Vowel - consonant - e syllable
Analytic
Criterion-Referenced Test
Cedilla
V-e
8. 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
Towre
VC
Auditory Processing
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
9. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)
Standard Scores
Chall's Stage 2
Texas Education Code 38.003
Six basic types of syllables
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.
Old English
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
VAKT
Semantics
11. 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.
Kinesthetic
Criterion-Referenced Test
Anglo Saxon
James Hinshelwood
12. 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.
Phonemic Awareness
Modification
Funding
Accent
13. 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)
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Rate
Linguistic Method
Combination
14. Participate in classroom discussions - make speeches/presentations - use tape records during lectures - read text out loud - create musical jingles - create mnemonics to aid memorization - discuss ideas verbally
Anglo Saxon
Quadrigraph
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Auditory Learners
15. Edward III - English again becomes the official language of the state -Chaucer - Canterbury Tales - English borrows from Latin and Greek languages - Anglo-French compounds appear (gentlewomen - gentlemen - faithful - etc) - Latin layer of language -
Vr
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
Expressive language
Middle English
16. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel
Curriculum referenced tests
Matthew Effect
Impulsivity
V >
17. International Multisensory Structured Education Council
Standard deviation
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Chall's Stage 0
IMSLEC
18. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.
Phonics approach
IMSLEC
ADHD
Greek layer of language
19. 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
MSLE
Universal Screening
Linguistic Method
Chall's Stage 5
20. 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
Quadrigraph
Matthew Effect
CTOPP
VV
21. Reading for Learning "the New" - Expand vocabularies - build background and world knowledge - develop strategic habits
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22. Alphabetic principle" and its relationship to phonemic awareness and phonological awareness in reading
Old English
Receptive language
Open Syllable
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
23. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.
Phonics
CTOPP
Phoneme
Standard Scores
24. A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that is different that the base word or root.
MSL
Great Vowel Shift
Affix
Macron
25. 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
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Mathew Effect
Multi-Sensory Approach
Phonological Awareness
26. 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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27. 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.
Top-down Reading Approach
Tilde
Chall's Stage 2
Tactile
28. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.
Profile
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Criterion referenced tests
Progress Monitoring
29. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words
Auditory Processing
Standard score
Linguistic Method
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
30. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.
Base Word
Age equivalent
Phonology
Phonological Awareness
31. 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
Percentile
Affix
Phonics approach
Chall's Stage 3
32. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.
Quadrigraph
Mathew Effect
Composite Score
Semantics
33. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development
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34. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928
Phonemic/ decodable words
IEP
Modern English
Grade equivalents
35. 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.
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Standard deviation
Percentile
Morpheme
36. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children
Frank Smith
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
RTI
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
37. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words
Expressive language
Cedilla
Phonological Awareness
Profile
38. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.
Profile
Letter naming Chart
RTI
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
39. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.
Auditory Processing
Expressive language
Dyslexia
Top-down Reading Approach
40. His research in the field of reading was fundamental to the emergence of today's scientific consensus about what reading is - how it works and what it does for the mind.
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
Keith Stanovich
Chall's Stage 4
41. 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.
Sight Words
VC
Criterion-Referenced Test
Macron
42. Making sense of what we read. Comprehension is dependent on good word recognition - fluency - vocabulary - worldly knowledge - and language ability.
Achievement test
Comprehension
Texas Education Code 28.06
Simultaneous teaching
43. Use - pictures - charts - maps - graphs - etc...clear view of teacher - color to highlight important text - ask teacher to provide handouts - illustrate ideas as pictures before writing them down - use multi media
Visual Learners
IDEA
Whole Language
RTI
44. 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.
Auditory Learners
Accommodation
Consonant
Base Word
45. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.
IEP
Oral Language
Stanine Scores
Orthography
46. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction
Affix
Suffix
Texas Education Code 28.06
VV
47. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.
Consonant
Accuracy
VAKT
Orthography
48. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)
[-'le
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Quadrigraph
49. State Board of Eduation
Accommodation
Tactile
SBOE
NICHD
50. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Multisensory
Analytic
Diagnostic Teaching