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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
Texas Education Code 28.06
Tactile
Percentile
Six basic types of syllables
2. 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
Matthew Effect
IEP
Grade equivalents
GORT
3. 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.
CTOPP
Chall's Stage 4
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Sight Words
4. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy
Diphthong
Affix
Prefix
Matthew Effect
5. 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.
Accommodation
Kinesthetic
Phonological Awareness
Chall's Stage 2
6. Individual Educational Plan
Pre-English
Whole Language
Diagnostic Teaching
IEP
7. Final stable syllable
8. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents
Morpheme
Auditory Processing
Reliability
CTOPP
9. 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
10. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.
Diphthong
Chall's Stage 0
Simultaneous teaching
Age equivalent
11. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes
Letter naming Chart
Morphology
Visual Learners
Percentile/ percentile rank
12. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.
13. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment
MSL
Morphology
Phonology
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
14. 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
Chall's Stage 2
Towre
Suffix
Expressive language
15. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.
Suffix
Universal Screening
Mastery level
Syntax
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.
Great Vowel Shift
Diagnostic Teaching
Raw score
NICHD
17. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.
Standard score
Derived Score
Chall's Stage 5
Auditory Processing
18. 1925 - Coined the term "strephosymbolia" which means twisted symbols; Pathologist - neurologist and psychitrist in the US - studied with Dr. Alzheimer in Germany - work influenced by James Hinshelwood
Sound Symbol Association
Chall's Stage 0
Prefix
Samuel T. Orton
19. Is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the
Raw score
Simultaneous teaching
The Norman Conquest
Dyslexia
20. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Percentile
Keith Stanovich
Norm-Referenced Test
21. A test in which a student's performance is compared to that of a norm group. Often used to measure and compare students - schools - districts and states.
Modification
Reading Comprehension Support
Norm-referenced tests
Keith Stanovich
22. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.
Diagnostic Teaching
Chall's Stage 4
Digraph
Closed Syllable
23. The term is also used for the language now called Old English - spoken and written by the ________ and their descendants in much of what is now England and some of southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century.
Synthetic Instruction
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Anglo Saxon
Chall's Stage 2
24. English as a second language
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Sight Words
Direct Instruction
ESL
25. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view
26. 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
Latin layer of language
Syntax
VC
Greek layer of language
27. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Base Word
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Matthew Effect
28. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time
Criterion-Referenced Test
Rate
The Norman Conquest
Battery
29. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Chall's Stage 1
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Diagnostic tests
30. Selective focus on what is important while screening out distractions.
Attention
VV
Components of Reading Instruction
Percentile
31. Closed syllable
ADHD
Three Layers of Language
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
VC
32. 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
Morphology
Criterion referenced tests
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Phoneme
33. Involve at least two people. It includes the ability to maintain eye contact - understand body language of others - take turns in a conversation - stick to the subject - and use oral language appropriate for the situation.
Phoneme
Percentile
Social language
Matthew Effect
34. A significant unit of visual shape. We use the visual shape as to cover not only writing - but also any other shape perceived by the eye which is a visible representation of a unit of speech. A single graphic letter or letter cluster which represents
Mastery level
Accent
Grapheme
Base Word
35. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.
Profile
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
IMSLEC
SBOE
36. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Tactile
NICHD
Adolf Kusmaul
37. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)
Quadrigraph
WRAT
Grade equivalents
Norm-Referenced Test
38. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Expressive language
Criterion-Referenced Test
Macron
39. 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.
Vr
Modern English
Kinesthetic
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
40. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.
Dyslexia
Multisensory
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
41. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies
Affix
Funding
Age equivalent
Components of Reading Instruction
42. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)
GORT
Standard Scores
Chall's Stage 2
Trigraph
43. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development
44. Edward III - English again becomes the official language of the state -Chaucer - Canterbury Tales - English borrows from Latin and Greek languages - Anglo-French compounds appear (gentlewomen - gentlemen - faithful - etc) - Latin layer of language -
Top-down Reading Approach
Universal Screening
Middle English
Chall's Stage 1
45. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.
Derivative
Tactile
RTI
Auditory Processing
46. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Fluency
Standard deviation
Reliability
47. A group of several test standardized on the same sample population so that results on the several tests are comparable. Example : School achievement tests
Modern English
Sound Symbol Association
Battery
RTI
48. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet
James Hinshelwood
Top-down Reading Approach
Letter naming Chart
Auditory Processing
49. 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.
Standard deviation
Age equivalent
Achievement test
Chall's Stage 0
50. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.
Dyslexia
Joe Torgesen
James Hinshelwood
Modification