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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Final stable syllable
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2. 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
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Accent
Percentile/ percentile rank
Middle English
3. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.
Auditory Learners
Syntax
Greek layer of language
Towre
4. 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)
Sight Words
Combination
Anglo Saxon
Phonological Awareness
5. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS
MSLE
Components of Reading Instruction
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Mathew Effect
6. Alphabetic principle" and its relationship to phonemic awareness and phonological awareness in reading
Keith Stanovich
Derived Score
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
7. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile
Morphology
VAKT
Phonics
Profile
8. 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.
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
[-'le
Combination
Top-down Reading Approach
9. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT
Consonant
Standardized test
ALTA
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
10. 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
Phonics approach
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
VAKT
11. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.
Auditory Processing
Syllable Instruction
Morphology
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
12. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.
WIATII
Macron
Base Word
Grade equivalents
13. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)
Trigraph
Affix
Cognitive Assessment
Derived Score
14. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
Matthew Effect
Consonant Digraph
Comprehension
IMSLEC
15. 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
Rate
Vr
Six basic types of syllables
Grade equivalents
16. Confirmation and Fluency - Decoding skills - Fluency - additional strategies
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17. Vowel - consonant - e syllable
V-e
Achievement test
WRAT
Attention
18. Multisensory Structured Language Education
Achievement test
MSLE
Diagnostic tests
Percentile
19. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Norm-referenced tests
Accent
20. 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
Battery
Progress Monitoring
MSLE
21. 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
Keith Stanovich
Morpheme
Phonemic/ decodable words
22. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.
Multisensory
Visual Processing
Auditory Processing
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
23. 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
Phonological Awareness
Old English
Joe Torgesen
Social language
24. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet
Latin layer of language
IDEA
Letter naming Chart
Old English
25. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Frank Smith
Vowel
MSL
26. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view
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27. 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.
Accent
Chall's Stage 2
Phonology
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
28. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"
Universal Screening
Adolf Kusmaul
Visual Learners
Tilde
29. Wide Range Achievement Test
Composite Score
ALTA
WRAT
Derived Score
30. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development
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31. Is a type of test - assessment - or evaluation which yields an estimate of the position of the tested individual in a predefined population - with respect to the trait being measured. This estimate is derived from the analysis of test scores and poss
[-'le
Linguistic Method
Composite Score
Norm-Referenced Test
32. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies
Components of Reading Instruction
Trigraph
Modern English
Diagnostic tests
33. 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.
Phonemic/ decodable words
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Dyslexia
Sight Words
34. 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.
Middle English
Keith Stanovich
Sound Symbol Association
Chall's Stage 4
35. Involve at least two people. It includes the ability to maintain eye contact - understand body language of others - take turns in a conversation - stick to the subject - and use oral language appropriate for the situation.
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Ability
Social language
Simultaneous teaching
36. 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.
Reliability
Consonant
Universal Screening
Old English
37. 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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38. 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
Trigraph
Curriculum referenced tests
GORT
V-e
39. Open syllable
V >
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Stanine Scores
Sound Symbol Association
40. 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.
Linguistic Method
Texas Education Code 38.003
V-e
Cognition
41. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.
Composite Score
Raw score
Chall's Stage 3
[-'le
42. 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
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Criterion-Referenced Test
Criterion referenced tests
Standard Scores
43. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.
VAKT
Six basic types of syllables
Visual Processing
Standard score
44. 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
Auditory Processing
IEP
James Hinshelwood
Norm-referenced tests
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.
Vowel Digraph
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Vr
Diagnostic Teaching
46. Academic Language Therapy Association
Rate
Chall's Stage 5
Standardized test
ALTA
47. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Simultaneous teaching
Academic Achievement Tests
Kinesthetic
48. A standardized test designed to efficiently measure the amount of knowledge and/or skill a person has acquired - usually as a result of classroom instruction. Such testing produces a statistical profile used as a measurement to evaluate student learn
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
Percentile
Achievement test
Grapheme
49. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Accent
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
ADHD
Texas Education Code 28.06
50. Multisensory Structured Language
MSL
Kinesthetic
Criterion-Referenced Test
Orthography