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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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Instructions:
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1. 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.






2. Final stable syllable

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3. 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






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

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5. A test in which a student's performance is compared to that of a norm group. Often used to measure and compare students - schools - districts and states.






6. 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.






7. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928






8. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes






9. International Multisensory Structured Education Council






10. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.






11. 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






12. 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






13. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






14. 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






15. 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






16. 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






17. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder






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






19. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test






20. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.






21. 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.






22. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.






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






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






25. A morpheme attached to the end of a word that creates a word with a different form or use. Suffixes include inflected forms indicating tense - number - person and comparatives.






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






27. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time






28. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.






29. 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.






30. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.






31. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






32. One of a class of speech sounds in which sound moving through the vocal tract is constricted or obstructed by the lips - tongue or teeth during articulation.






33. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound






34. Whole body learning






35. 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






36. 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






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






38. State Board of Eduation






39. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.






40. 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.






41. Academic Language Therapy Association






42. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.






43. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment






44. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others






45. 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






46. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children






47. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.






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






49. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.






50. 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.