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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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






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






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






4. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development






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






6. 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






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






8. 1930 - Psychologist and teacher in New York; along with Samuel T. Orton at Columbia University - developed a non-traditional approach to teaching written language skills. Trained one teacher at a time. began working with Sally Childs and trained 50 t






9. 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






10. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






11. 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.






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

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13. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.






14. 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






15. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet






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






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

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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






19. A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that is different that the base word or root.






20. 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.






21. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept






22. 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.






23. 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.






24. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test






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






26. Multisensory Structured Language Education






27. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






28. 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






29. 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.






30. 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






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






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






33. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek






34. 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






35. Final stable syllable

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






37. 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






38. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.






39. 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






40. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






41. Academic Language Therapy Association






42. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound






43. A group of several test standardized on the same sample population so that results on the several tests are comparable. Example : School achievement tests






44. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness






45. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U






46. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test






47. MSLE instruction requires that organization on material follow the logical order of the language. Sequence must begin with the easiest and progress to more difficult material. Each step must be based on prior knowledge.






48. 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






49. Reading can be learned as naturally as speaking - reading is focused on constructing meaning from texts using children's books rather than basal or controlled readers - reading is best learned in the context of the group - phonics is taught indirectl






50. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder







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