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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. 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.
Reading Comprehension Support
Sight Words
Accommodation
Receptive language
2. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes
Ability
Derivative
Diphthong
Accuracy
3. Individuals with a Disabilities Act
IDEA
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Vowel
Tilde
4. English as a second language
RTI
ESL
Curriculum referenced tests
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
5. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.
Academic Achievement Tests
Progress Monitoring
Digraph
Great Vowel Shift
6. 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
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Pre-English
Phonics approach
7. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language
ADHD
Matthew Effect
Dyslexia
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
8. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.
Phoneme
Ability
Orthography
Achievement test
9. listening - remembering - and understanding what someone else says.
ESL
Receptive language
V >
IMSLEC
10. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928
Accommodation
Grapheme
Modern English
Components of Reading Instruction
11. 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.
Fluency
Prefix
Joe Torgesen
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
12. A group of several test standardized on the same sample population so that results on the several tests are comparable. Example : School achievement tests
Battery
Top-down Reading Approach
Kinesthetic
WRAT
13. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.
Reliability
ESL
Modification
Syllable Instruction
14. 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.
Chall's Stage 1
VV
Middle English
Keith Stanovich
15. A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of structural linguistics.
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Chall's Stage 2
Vowel
Morpheme
16. The teacher musts be adept at individualized teaching based on continual assessment of the student's needs. Content should be mastered to a level of automaticity.
Whole Language
Diagnostic Teaching
Pre-English
Modern English
17. Inferential learning of a concept cannot be take for granted! Never assume!
Criterion referenced tests
Direct Instruction
Phonemic/ decodable words
Expressive language
18. Use - pictures - charts - maps - graphs - etc...clear view of teacher - color to highlight important text - ask teacher to provide handouts - illustrate ideas as pictures before writing them down - use multi media
Ability
Visual Learners
Vr
Syllable
19. 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.
Syllable
Cognitive Assessment
Breve
Social language
20. 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
Components of Reading Instruction
Consonant Digraph
GORT
Fluency
21. 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.
Breve
Towre
Anna Gillingham
IMSLEC
22. 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
Auditory Processing
Middle English
CTOPP
23. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test
MSLE
Percentile
Reliability
Great Vowel Shift
24. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.
Chall's Stage 4
Analytic
Chall's Stage 1
Phonics
25. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies
Percentile/ percentile rank
Visual Learners
Components of Reading Instruction
Curriculum referenced tests
26. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.
Fluency
IDEA
Grapheme
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
27. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek
The Norman Conquest
Towre
Three Layers of Language
Accuracy
28. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.
Closed Syllable
Six basic types of syllables
Mastery level
ALTA
29. Final stable syllable
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30. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
ADHD
Phoneme
Grapheme
Auditory Learners
31. 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.
RTI
Standard deviation
Composite Score
Phonemic/ decodable words
32. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable
Vowel Digraph
Comprehension
Closed Syllable
Six basic types of syllables
33. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Grapheme
Standard score
Suffix
34. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness
Phonics approach
Letter naming Chart
Dyslexia
Phonemic Awareness
35. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.
Phoneme
Stanine Scores
Mastery level
Standardized test
36. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)
Combination
Open Syllable
Expressive language
Criterion-Referenced Test
37. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.
Norm-referenced tests
Greek layer of language
ALTA
Anna Gillingham
38. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Macron
Morphology
39. 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
Top-down Reading Approach
Tactile
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
NICHD
40. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.
Social language
Orthography
Chall's Stage 3
Whole Language
41. 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
Phonology
Joe Torgesen
Phonemic Awareness
Chall's Stage 2
42. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.
Sound Symbol Association
Reliability
ESL
Affix
43. 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.
Semantics
Consonant
Visual Processing
Suffix
44. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words
Diphthong
WIATII
Auditory Processing
Phonological Awareness
45. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT
Age equivalent
Standardized test
Cognitive Assessment
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
46. Expects child to learn reading as "naturally" as speech - Uses child's oral language as content for reading - Uses child's oral language as basis for spelling instruction - Children learn to "read" by reading and re-reading "big books" together with
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47. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.
RTI
Multisensory
Quadrigraph
Reading Comprehension Support
48. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.
Accuracy
Keith Stanovich
RTI
Latin layer of language
49. Multisensory Structured Language
Dyslexia
Six basic types of syllables
Consonant Digraph
MSL
50. 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
Auditory Processing
Chall's Stage 1
Chall's Stage 5