Test your basic knowledge |

ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

Subject : certifications
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. 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.






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






3. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.






4. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies






5. 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






6. Multisensory Structured Language






7. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program






8. listening - remembering - and understanding what someone else says.






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






10. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)






11. 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






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






13. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






14. 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






15. 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.






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






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






18. 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.






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






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






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






22. 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






23. One of a class of speech sounds in which sound moving through the vocal tract is constricted or obstructed by the lips - tongue or teeth during articulation.






24. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.






25. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.






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






27. 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






28. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






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

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


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






31. 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






32. Federal Law. Nondiscrimination on the basis of handicap in programs receiving federal $$ - Civil Rights Law - to protect people with disabilities by allowing full participation in the workplace.






33. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children






34. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents






35. Reading for Learning "the New" - Expand vocabularies - build background and world knowledge - develop strategic habits

Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /var/www/html/basicversity.com/show_quiz.php on line 183


36. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






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






38. 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






39. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development






40. 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.






41. His research in the field of reading was fundamental to the emergence of today's scientific consensus about what reading is - how it works and what it does for the mind.






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. 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.






44. Effective for special needs - Uses all possible senses - tracing - saying - listening - looking - Typically called VAKT - Visual - Auditory - Kinesthetic - Tactile - Can be used with either Phonics or Whole Language






45. 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






46. English as a second language






47. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.






48. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.






49. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning






50. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept