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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable
Morphology
Six basic types of syllables
Vowel
ALTA
2. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.
Syllable Instruction
Standard score
Orthography
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
3. Alphabetic principle" and its relationship to phonemic awareness and phonological awareness in reading
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Reading Comprehension Support
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
4. 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.
Criterion referenced tests
Top-down Reading Approach
Great Vowel Shift
Direct Instruction
5. Whole body learning
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Pre-English
Kinesthetic
Reliability
6. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.
Raw score
Phonics approach
Cognition
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
7. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.
Orthography
Battery
VC
Direct Instruction
8. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness
Universal Screening
Texas Education Code 28.06
Phonemic Awareness
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
9. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.
Chall's Stage 2
Grapheme
Phonemic/ decodable words
Vowel Digraph
10. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others
Derived Score
Morpheme
Expressive language
CTOPP
11. 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
Phonics approach
Analytic
Latin layer of language
Anglo Saxon
12. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
Grade equivalents
RTI
Profile
13. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.
Diagnostic Teaching
CTOPP
Prefix
Academic Achievement Tests
14. 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.
Age equivalent
Standard Scores
Morphology
VAKT
15. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U
Vowel
Greek layer of language
Orthography
Anna Gillingham
16. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.
17. 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.
V >
Consonant
Visual Learners
Raw score
18. English as a second language
Curriculum referenced tests
ESL
Linguistic Method
Morpheme
19. 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
Phonemic/ decodable words
Affix
Percentile/ percentile rank
Funding
20. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.
Closed Syllable
Derivative
Syntax
Visual Processing
21. 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
James Hinshelwood
Derived Score
Visual Processing
Pre-English
22. 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
GORT
Chall's Stage 2
Frank Smith
Phonics approach
23. Multisensory Structured Language
Kinesthetic
MSL
NICHD
Phonological Awareness
24. Wide Range Achievement Test
Phoneme
Matthew Effect
MSLE
WRAT
25. 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
Pre-English
IMSLEC
Curriculum referenced tests
V >
26. Multisensory Structured Language Education
Funding
Multi-Sensory Approach
MSL
MSLE
27. 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.
Sight Words
Fluency
Anna Gillingham
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
28. 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
Syllable Instruction
Chall's Stage 1
Multisensory
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
29. 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
VAKT
Criterion referenced tests
Anglo Saxon
Accommodation
30. 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.
Accent
Syllable Instruction
WRAT
Phoneme
31. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.
Achievement test
Phoneme
Greek layer of language
Open Syllable
32. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time
NICHD
Rate
Phonics approach
Phonemic Awareness
33. A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of structural linguistics.
Dyslexia
Morpheme
Visual Processing
Analytic
34. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.
Comprehension
Derivative
Standard Scores
Universal Screening
35. 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
Chall's Stage 5
Joe Torgesen
Old English
Standard deviation
36. 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
CTOPP
GORT
Letter naming Chart
Syntax
37. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel
Texas Education Code 28.06
Impulsivity
Modification
Norm-referenced tests
38. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words
Accuracy
Semantics
Phonological Awareness
Synthetic Instruction
39. Selective focus on what is important while screening out distractions.
Universal Screening
Matthew Effect
Attention
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
40. 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.
Phonemic/ decodable words
IDEA
Accommodation
Auditory Processing
41. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.
42. 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
Trigraph
Great Vowel Shift
Frank Smith
Progress Monitoring
43. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes
Middle English
Morphology
Direct Instruction
Texas Education Code 28.06
44. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.
Closed Syllable
Age equivalent
Semantics
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
45. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability
WRAT
Phoneme
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Kinesthetic
46. 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
Multisensory
Achievement test
Profile
Auditory Learners
47. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
NICHD
ESL
Matthew Effect
Direct Instruction
48. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.
Battery
Modification
Progress Monitoring
Dyslexia
49. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.
Phoneme
Phonology
Curriculum referenced tests
ESL
50. Academic Language Therapy Association
Matthew Effect
ALTA
Expressive language
Phonics approach