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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies
Chall's Stage 2
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Chall's Stage 5
Components of Reading Instruction
2. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek
Three Layers of Language
Analytic
Profile
Chall's Stage 4
3. Multisensory Structured Language
Semantics
Percentile
MSL
VV
4. Paired association between letters and letter sounds; an approach to teaching of reading and spelling that emphasizes sound-symbol relationships - especially in early instruction.
Three Layers of Language
Rate
Phonics
Funding
5. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.
Norm-referenced tests
Raw score
Chall's Stage 3
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
6. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Trigraph
Towre
Receptive language
7. Vowel - consonant - e syllable
Breve
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
V-e
Age equivalent
8. 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.
Cognitive Assessment
Percentile/ percentile rank
Norm-referenced tests
Academic Achievement Tests
9. 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
Frank Smith
Phonemic/ decodable words
Anna Gillingham
Vowel
10. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships
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11. 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.
WIATII
Breve
Standard deviation
Macron
12. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Semantics
Criterion referenced tests
Frank Smith
13. 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 -
V >
Matthew Effect
Diagnostic Teaching
Middle English
14. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test
WIATII
Consonant Digraph
Battery
Greek layer of language
15. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.
Modification
Funding
Grade equivalents
Vr
16. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.
Auditory Processing
Old English
Joe Torgesen
Universal Screening
17. 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.
Tactile
Curriculum referenced tests
Criterion referenced tests
Syllable
18. An ability test is designed to measure either your general intelligence or your mental aptitude in a particular area. For example
Criterion-Referenced Test
ESL
Ability
Analytic
19. Tests used to identify the nature and source of an individual's educational - psychological - or medical difficulties or disabilities in order to facilitate correction or remediation.
Composite Score
WRAT
Semantics
Diagnostic tests
20. 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
Morpheme
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
21. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view
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22. r-controlled syllable
The Norman Conquest
Joe Torgesen
Vr
Norm-Referenced Test
23. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy
RTI
Morpheme
IDEA
Diphthong
24. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
Consonant Digraph
Attention
Quadrigraph
Semantics
25. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
Digraph
Funding
Chall's Stage 5
MSLE
26. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words
Percentile/ percentile rank
Auditory Learners
Universal Screening
Phonological Awareness
27. 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
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Vowel Digraph
Phonics approach
28. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.
Accuracy
Rate
Multisensory
Texas Education Code 38.003
29. Reading can be learned as naturally as speaking - reading is focused on constructing meaning from texts using children's books rather than basal or controlled readers - reading is best learned in the context of the group - phonics is taught indirectl
Reliability
Whole Language
Grade equivalents
ADHD
30. 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
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Prefix
Pre-English
Syntax
31. 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
Vowel
GORT
Cognitive Assessment
Standard score
32. Children may be physical and socially immature - may be awkward in social situations - may have difficulty reading social cues - may have trouble finding the right words - stammering. - may feel anxious in school
Attention
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Latin layer of language
Visual Processing
33. 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
Standard score
Cedilla
RTI
Letter naming Chart
34. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.
Stanine Scores
Digraph
Synthetic Instruction
Norm-Referenced Test
35. Reading for Learning "the New" - Expand vocabularies - build background and world knowledge - develop strategic habits
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36. Multisensory Structured Language Education
Cognition
MSLE
Digraph
Composite Score
37. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Percentile
Latin layer of language
Phoneme
38. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound
Cognition
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Vowel Digraph
WIATII
39. The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send picture or phonic/dictionary notation that indicates a long sound.
Digraph
Grade equivalents
James Hinshelwood
Macron
40. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept
Percentile/ percentile rank
Joe Torgesen
Derivative
Frank Smith
41. Making sense of what we read. Comprehension is dependent on good word recognition - fluency - vocabulary - worldly knowledge - and language ability.
Diphthong
Comprehension
Components of Reading Instruction
Diagnostic Teaching
42. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.
Analytic
GORT
Accommodation
Chall's Stage 5
43. The curved diacritical mark above a vowel in a sound picture or phonic/dictionary symbol notation that indicates a short sound in a closed syllable in which at least one consonant comes after the vowel in the same syllable.
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
Breve
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
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
Frank Smith
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
James Hinshelwood
Percentile/ percentile rank
45. 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.
Chall's Stage 5
Phonemic Awareness
Sight Words
Derived Score
46. Confirmation and Fluency - Decoding skills - Fluency - additional strategies
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47. State Board of Eduation
Chall's Stage 5
Chall's Stage 1
Social language
SBOE
48. 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)
Base Word
ESL
Combination
Diagnostic Teaching
49. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents
MSL
CTOPP
Chall's Stage 1
Mastery level
50. Inferential learning of a concept cannot be take for granted! Never assume!
Direct Instruction
Prefix
Macron
[-'le