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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies






2. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek






3. Multisensory Structured Language






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.






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






6. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language






7. Vowel - consonant - e syllable






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.






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






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.






12. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.






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 -






14. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test






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.






16. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.






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.






18. An ability test is designed to measure either your general intelligence or your mental aptitude in a particular area. For example






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.






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






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

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22. r-controlled syllable






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






24. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






25. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






26. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words






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






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






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






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






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






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. 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






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






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






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






38. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound






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






40. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept






41. Making sense of what we read. Comprehension is dependent on good word recognition - fluency - vocabulary - worldly knowledge - and language ability.






42. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.






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.






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






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.






46. Confirmation and Fluency - Decoding skills - Fluency - additional strategies

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47. State Board of Eduation






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)






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






50. Inferential learning of a concept cannot be take for granted! Never assume!