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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.






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






3. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.






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






5. 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






6. 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






7. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






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






9. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.






10. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words






11. A group of several test standardized on the same sample population so that results on the several tests are comparable. Example : School achievement tests






12. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.






13. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"






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






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






16. 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.






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






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






19. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test






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






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






22. 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






23. 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.






24. The curved line placed beneath c to indicate its "soft" or (s) pronunciation - as opposed to its hard or (k) pronunciation. Students use the coding on c before the letters e - i - or y (the softeners) - to remind themselves to pronounced the (s) soun






25. Take frequent study breaks - move around to learn new things - work at a standing position - chew gum while standing - listen to music while studying - skim material first then read in detail






26. Vowel - consonant - e syllable






27. Whole body learning






28. r-controlled syllable






29. English as a second language






30. The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send picture or phonic/dictionary notation that indicates a long sound.






31. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept






32. Closed syllable






33. 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.






34. 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






35. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia






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






37. 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






38. 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






39. A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of structural linguistics.






40. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction






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






42. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet






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






44. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek






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






46. 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.






47. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.






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






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






50. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder