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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 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






2. Set of principles that dictate the sequence and function of words in a sentence in order to convey meaning - must include grammar - sentence types - and mechanics of language






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






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






5. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships

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6. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel






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






8. English as a second language






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






10. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test






11. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia






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






13. r-controlled syllable






14. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.






15. State Board of Eduation






16. Individuals with a Disabilities Act






17. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U






18. Paired association between letters and letter sounds; an approach to teaching of reading and spelling that emphasizes sound-symbol relationships - especially in early instruction.






19. 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






20. 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.






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






22. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"






23. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)






24. 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






25. 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






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

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27. 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






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






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






31. 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.






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






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






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






35. 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






36. 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






37. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






38. 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.






39. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS






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






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






42. Whole body learning






43. Final stable syllable

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44. 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






45. A diacritical marking. A wavy line placed over any vowel before r in a combination to indicate the unaccented pronunciation eg letter. The tildes used both in coding words and in a sound picture. When the pronunciation of any unaccented vowel-r combi






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






47. 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






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. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness






50. 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.