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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"
Adolf Kusmaul
Letter naming Chart
Latin layer of language
Receptive language
2. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.
Chall's Stage 4
Combination
Chall's Stage 3
Profile
3. Ability to think reason and solve problems. Skills are usually measured by an individual test of intelligence/IQ test. Requires being able to generalize from past experience and use that knowledge to respond to new situations.
RTI
Syllable Instruction
Cognition
Three Layers of Language
4. Final stable syllable
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5. 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
Standard score
Auditory Learners
Open Syllable
Funding
6. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928
Modern English
Dyslexia
Age equivalent
Adolf Kusmaul
7. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U
Tilde
Vowel
Syllable Instruction
WIATII
8. 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
Affix
VAKT
Pre-English
Rate
9. 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
ESL
Texas Education Code 38.003
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
10. 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
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Keith Stanovich
11. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.
Accent
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Syllable
Base Word
12. 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.
Phonemic Awareness
Anglo Saxon
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Impulsivity
13. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile
VAKT
Linguistic Method
Phonology
Modern English
14. Inferential learning of a concept cannot be take for granted! Never assume!
Middle English
Direct Instruction
Macron
Chall's Stage 3
15. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children
Auditory Learners
Top-down Reading Approach
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Open Syllable
16. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.
Simultaneous teaching
Derivative
Six basic types of syllables
Sight Words
17. 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 -
Attention
Middle English
Vr
Anglo Saxon
18. 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
Vowel
Matthew Effect
Profile
Latin layer of language
19. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies
Grapheme
Chall's Stage 0
Components of Reading Instruction
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
20. 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.
Standard Scores
IMSLEC
Criterion referenced tests
Pre-English
21. The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send picture or phonic/dictionary notation that indicates a long sound.
Cognitive Assessment
NICHD
Affix
Macron
22. 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
Keith Stanovich
Open Syllable
ALTA
Samuel T. Orton
23. 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
Phonemic Awareness
Cognitive Assessment
Tilde
Diagnostic Teaching
24. 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
Combination
ALTA
Morphology
25. 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.
Chall's Stage 2
Syntax
Macron
Keith Stanovich
26. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.
Composite Score
Accent
Modification
Samuel T. Orton
27. 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
Battery
Norm-referenced tests
IMSLEC
28. 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
Chall's Stage 4
GORT
Old English
Consonant
29. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Morphology
Tactile
Reliability
30. 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
Profile
Phonemic Awareness
Standardized test
Great Vowel Shift
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
Joe Torgesen
Phonics approach
Top-down Reading Approach
Open Syllable
32. Wide Range Achievement Test
Letter naming Chart
V-e
WRAT
Academic Achievement Tests
33. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Accommodation
Expressive language
Derived Score
34. 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
Semantics
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Digraph
Grapheme
35. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet
Mathew Effect
Curriculum referenced tests
Letter naming Chart
Kinesthetic
36. 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.
V >
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Auditory Learners
37. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.
Standard deviation
Phonemic Awareness
Universal Screening
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
38. 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.
Standardized test
Modern English
VV
Accent
39. State Board of Eduation
SBOE
MSLE
Rate
Trigraph
40. 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
Percentile/ percentile rank
Visual Learners
Morpheme
Texas Education Code 38.003
41. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.
Anna Gillingham
SBOE
Latin layer of language
Texas Education Code 38.003
42. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language
Grade equivalents
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Latin layer of language
Expressive language
43. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.
V >
V-e
Closed Syllable
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
44. Comprehensive end-of-year exams - reflecting the specific subject matter outlines in the curriculum.
Curriculum referenced tests
Grade equivalents
V >
GORT
45. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.
Standard score
James Hinshelwood
Phonemic/ decodable words
Accuracy
46. r-controlled syllable
Old English
Visual Processing
Grapheme
Vr
47. A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of structural linguistics.
Morpheme
Cognition
Diphthong
Accent
48. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction
Cedilla
Texas Education Code 28.06
Norm-Referenced Test
Letter naming Chart
49. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test
WIATII
Phonics approach
Macron
WRAT
50. 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
Vowel
Multi-Sensory Approach
Greek layer of language
Stanine Scores