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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. 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.
IEP
Accommodation
Whole Language
ADHD
2. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel
Stanine Scores
Achievement test
Anglo Saxon
Impulsivity
3. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.
Orthography
Derived Score
Base Word
MSL
4. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
ADHD
Whole Language
Sight Words
WRAT
5. Comprehensive end-of-year exams - reflecting the specific subject matter outlines in the curriculum.
Cognitive Assessment
Top-down Reading Approach
Grade equivalents
Curriculum referenced tests
6. 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
Whole Language
Anglo Saxon
Phonological Awareness
Linguistic Method
7. Open syllable
Direct Instruction
Chall's Stage 0
V >
Chall's Stage 3
8. Wide Range Achievement Test
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
WRAT
NICHD
9. 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
Semantics
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Mastery level
Diphthong
10. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.
Profile
Comprehension
Three Layers of Language
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
11. 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
Rate
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Vowel Digraph
Linguistic Method
12. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.
Auditory Processing
Matthew Effect
Fluency
V >
13. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others
Phoneme
Suffix
Open Syllable
Expressive language
14. 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
Digraph
Criterion-Referenced Test
Adolf Kusmaul
Vowel Digraph
15. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.
ESL
Percentile
Battery
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
16. 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.
Auditory Learners
Whole Language
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Phoneme
17. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept
Dyslexia
Direct Instruction
Frank Smith
GORT
18. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.
Auditory Processing
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Auditory Learners
Cognitive Assessment
19. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time
Phonemic/ decodable words
Rate
Age equivalent
GORT
20. 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
Phonics
Mastery level
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Macron
21. 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
Standard deviation
Towre
Sound Symbol Association
IEP
22. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.
Linguistic Method
Curriculum referenced tests
Six basic types of syllables
Academic Achievement Tests
23. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.
Simultaneous teaching
Semantics
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Prefix
24. Reading for Learning "the New" - Expand vocabularies - build background and world knowledge - develop strategic habits
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25. 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
Accuracy
Syntax
Samuel T. Orton
Mathew Effect
26. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
Digraph
Receptive language
Quadrigraph
ESL
27. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.
The Norman Conquest
Whole Language
Frank Smith
Raw score
28. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.
Whole Language
Age equivalent
Trigraph
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
29. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness
Phonemic Awareness
Auditory Learners
Frank Smith
Six basic types of syllables
30. 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.
ALTA
Norm-referenced tests
The Norman Conquest
Middle English
31. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.
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32. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.
Multisensory
ESL
Raw score
Auditory Processing
33. 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
Profile
Phonics approach
ADHD
Greek layer of language
34. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS
Rate
GORT
Derived Score
Mathew Effect
35. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound
Vowel Digraph
Funding
CTOPP
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
36. 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
Joe Torgesen
Funding
MSLE
Sound Symbol Association
37. Individuals with a Disabilities Act
GORT
Norm-Referenced Test
IDEA
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
38. 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
Auditory Processing
Age equivalent
Vr
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
39. Teutonic invasion and settlement - The Christianizing of Britain - The creation of a national English culture - Danish-English warfare - Political adjustment and cultural assimilation and the decline of Old English as a result of The Norman Conquest.
Open Syllable
Old English
Criterion referenced tests
Visual Processing
40. Ability to understand and express spoken language
Oral Language
Auditory Learners
Grapheme
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
41. English as a second language
ALTA
Battery
Percentile
ESL
42. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.
Visual Processing
Modern English
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Standard Scores
43. 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
Samuel T. Orton
Macron
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Achievement test
44. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.
RTI
Mastery level
Semantics
Visual Learners
45. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies
Components of Reading Instruction
Trigraph
Norm-Referenced Test
ESL
46. 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.
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Three Layers of Language
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Towre
47. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928
Oral Language
Modern English
Keith Stanovich
Phonology
48. 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
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Great Vowel Shift
Tactile
Modern English
49. 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.
Anglo Saxon
Three Layers of Language
Suffix
Joe Torgesen
50. Final stable syllable
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