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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.
Universal Screening
Matthew Effect
MSL
Criterion referenced tests
2. Alphabetic principle" and its relationship to phonemic awareness and phonological awareness in reading
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Chall's Stage 1
Phoneme
Direct Instruction
3. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.
Phoneme
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
[-'le
Consonant Digraph
4. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.
Profile
Vowel Digraph
ESL
Middle English
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
Combination
Anna Gillingham
Affix
Simultaneous teaching
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
Norm-referenced tests
Affix
Dyslexia
Norm-Referenced Test
7. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)
Chall's Stage 0
Matthew Effect
Linguistic Method
Quadrigraph
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
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Pre-English
Visual Processing
Open Syllable
9. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.
Simultaneous teaching
IDEA
Anna Gillingham
Syllable
10. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words
Comprehension
Texas Education Code 38.003
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Sight 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
Greek layer of language
Battery
Towre
Letter naming Chart
12. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.
Academic Achievement Tests
Sight Words
WIATII
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
13. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"
Greek layer of language
Comprehension
The Norman Conquest
Adolf Kusmaul
14. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies
Fluency
Components of Reading Instruction
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Linguistic Method
15. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.
Derived Score
Phonics
Attention
Phonemic/ decodable words
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.
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Standard Scores
Modification
Profile
17. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable
GORT
Six basic types of syllables
Joe Torgesen
Syllable
18. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928
Oral Language
Modern English
Fluency
Vr
19. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test
Vowel Digraph
Trigraph
WIATII
Vowel
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.
Percentile
Composite Score
Modification
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
21. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.
Morphology
Rate
V-e
Syllable Instruction
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
Percentile
Cognitive Assessment
V-e
Digraph
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.
Percentile/ percentile rank
Keith Stanovich
Phonology
Accent
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
Standard score
Cedilla
Anna Gillingham
Vowel
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
Universal Screening
Receptive language
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Top-down Reading Approach
26. Vowel - consonant - e syllable
Linguistic Method
Tactile
Cognition
V-e
27. Whole body learning
Auditory Learners
SBOE
Kinesthetic
The Norman Conquest
28. r-controlled syllable
Standardized test
Synthetic Instruction
V >
Vr
29. English as a second language
ESL
Phonics approach
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
30. The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send picture or phonic/dictionary notation that indicates a long sound.
Sound Symbol Association
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Components of Reading Instruction
Macron
31. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept
Frank Smith
Combination
MSLE
Kinesthetic
32. Closed syllable
VC
IDEA
Percentile/ percentile rank
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
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.
WRAT
Matthew Effect
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
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
Chall's Stage 0
Keith Stanovich
Pre-English
Phonics approach
35. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Diagnostic tests
Diagnostic Teaching
Social language
36. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time
Adolf Kusmaul
Rate
Cognition
Visual Processing
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
Percentile/ percentile rank
Vowel Digraph
Great Vowel Shift
Mathew Effect
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
Vowel
Social language
Matthew Effect
Stanine Scores
39. A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of structural linguistics.
Whole Language
Morpheme
Phoneme
Mathew Effect
40. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction
Texas Education Code 28.06
Towre
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Diagnostic Teaching
41. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning
Six basic types of syllables
Reading Comprehension Support
NICHD
Old English
42. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet
Letter naming Chart
Top-down Reading Approach
Tactile
Reading Comprehension Support
43. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others
Expressive language
Standard score
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Grapheme
44. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek
Middle English
Trigraph
Accommodation
Three Layers of Language
45. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment
RTI
Phonology
Auditory Learners
Samuel T. Orton
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.
Cognitive Assessment
Top-down Reading Approach
Six basic types of syllables
Curriculum referenced tests
47. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.
MSLE
Fluency
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Consonant Digraph
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
Linguistic Method
CTOPP
Auditory Learners
WRAT
49. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes
Derivative
Semantics
IDEA
Phonological Awareness
50. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Attention
ADHD
Standard deviation
Great Vowel Shift