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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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






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






3. Multisensory Structured Language






4. Individual Educational Plan






5. 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






6. Vowel - consonant - e syllable






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






8. Open syllable






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






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






11. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.






12. 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.






13. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment






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






15. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound






16. Closed syllable






17. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile






18. 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






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






20. 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.






21. 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






22. 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.






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






24. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






25. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.






26. 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.






27. 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






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






29. 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






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






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






32. 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






33. The process of systematically gathering test scores and related data in order to make judgement about an individuals ability to perform various mental activities involved in the processing - acquisition - retention - conceptualization - and organizat






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






35. Final stable syllable

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36. A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of structural linguistics.






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






38. 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






39. 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.






40. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development






41. 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.






42. 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






43. A districts dyslexia program is considered part of the basic - required curriculum. Therefore - state compensatory education funds can only be used to provide programs - projects - activities - and materials that supplement that district's regular dy






44. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS






45. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928






46. Proceeds from the whole to the part - suggests that processing of a text begins in the mind of the readers. Meaning is brought to print not derived from print.






47. 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.






48. 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






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






50. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.