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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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

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






3. 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






4. 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






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






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






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

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






10. 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






11. 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.






12. State Board of Education Rule - District Board of Trustees must make sure dyslexia procedures are given to the district. - District must use SBOE approved strategies for screening and treating dyslexia






13. Open syllable






14. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test






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






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






17. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.






18. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.






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






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






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






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






23. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound






24. 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.






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






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






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






28. 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






29. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek






30. 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






31. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes






32. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"






33. 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






34. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






35. 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






36. Vowel - consonant - e syllable






37. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test






38. Ability to understand and express spoken language






39. 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.






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






41. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia






42. 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






43. Paired association between letters and letter sounds; an approach to teaching of reading and spelling that emphasizes sound-symbol relationships - especially in early instruction.






44. 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.






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






46. 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.






47. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.






48. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.






49. 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.






50. 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







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