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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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






2. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words






3. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek






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






5. Multisensory Structured Language Education






6. 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






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

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8. Ability to understand and express spoken language






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






10. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development

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11. Was a pivotal event in English history. It largely removed the native ruling class - replacing it with a foreign - French-speaking monarchy - aristocracy - and clerical hierarchy. This - in turn - brought about a transformation of the English languag






12. 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






13. Ability to think reason and solve problems. Skills are usually measured by an individual test of intelligence/IQ test. Requires being able to generalize from past experience and use that knowledge to respond to new situations.






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






15. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






16. A pattern of letters (found in a single syllable) which occurs frequently together. The pronunciation of at least one of the component parts is unexpected or the letters stand in an unexpected sequence ( ar - er - ir - or - us - qu - wh)






17. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test






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






19. Is a type of test - assessment - or evaluation which yields an estimate of the position of the tested individual in a predefined population - with respect to the trait being measured. This estimate is derived from the analysis of test scores and poss






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






21. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability






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






23. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound






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






25. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)






26. 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






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






28. 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






29. Comprehensive end-of-year exams - reflecting the specific subject matter outlines in the curriculum.






30. Is one that provides for translating test scores into a statement about the behavior to be expected of a person with that score or their relationship to a specified subject matter. Most tests and quizzes written by school teachers are criterion-refer






31. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)






32. 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.






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






34. Vowel - consonant - e syllable






35. 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.






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






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






38. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






39. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.






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






41. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.






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






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






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

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45. A score that describes student performance in terms of the statistical performance of an average student at a given grade level. Ranges from K.0 to 12.9 Are not a dependable representation of progress






46. 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






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






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






49. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children






50. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable







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