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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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Instructions:
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1. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound






2. 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 -






3. A significant unit of visual shape. We use the visual shape as to cover not only writing - but also any other shape perceived by the eye which is a visible representation of a unit of speech. A single graphic letter or letter cluster which represents






4. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.






5. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.






6. A standardized test designed to efficiently measure the amount of knowledge and/or skill a person has acquired - usually as a result of classroom instruction. Such testing produces a statistical profile used as a measurement to evaluate student learn






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






8. Multisensory Structured Language






9. Test of Word Reading Efficiency. Screening test. measures an individual's ability to pronounce printed words accurately and fluently. Generates percentiles - standard scores - age equivalents - and grade equivalents.Decoding - Sight words






10. 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






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






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






13. 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.






14. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






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






16. 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






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






18. Is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the






19. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.






20. A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that is different that the base word or root.






21. A morpheme attached to the end of a word that creates a word with a different form or use. Suffixes include inflected forms indicating tense - number - person and comparatives.






22. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept






23. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.






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

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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. Feeling through fingertips






27. 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.






28. 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






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






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






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






32. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words






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






34. Involve at least two people. It includes the ability to maintain eye contact - understand body language of others - take turns in a conversation - stick to the subject - and use oral language appropriate for the situation.






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






36. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.

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37. Provide different ways for kids to take in information or communicate their knowledge back to you. The changes do not alter or lower the standards or expectations of a subject or a test.






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






39. Open syllable






40. 1925 - Coined the term "strephosymbolia" which means twisted symbols; Pathologist - neurologist and psychitrist in the US - studied with Dr. Alzheimer in Germany - work influenced by James Hinshelwood






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






42. 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.






43. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek






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






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






46. Selective focus on what is important while screening out distractions.






47. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)






48. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






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






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