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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






2. 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.






3. The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send picture or phonic/dictionary notation that indicates a long sound.






4. 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.






5. The curved line placed beneath c to indicate its "soft" or (s) pronunciation - as opposed to its hard or (k) pronunciation. Students use the coding on c before the letters e - i - or y (the softeners) - to remind themselves to pronounced the (s) soun






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






7. State Board of Eduation






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






9. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel






10. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






11. Final stable syllable

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12. Wide Range Achievement Test






13. 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.






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






15. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships

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16. 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.






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






18. Ability to understand and express spoken language






19. Feeling through fingertips






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






21. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words






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






23. 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






24. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.






25. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies






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






27. 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

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






29. 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






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






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






32. 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 -






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






34. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development

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35. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.






36. 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






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






38. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"






39. The ancient Britons (Celts) conquered by Caesar in 54 c.e. - Celtic and Latin languages co-exist - Teutonic tribes (Jutes - Angles and Saxons invade) - Anglo-Saxon layer of language






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






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






42. 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.






43. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.






44. Individual Educational Plan






45. 1904 - reported 2 cases of "congenital word blindness" - called for schools to establish procedures for screening as well as appropriate teaching of those that were identified with congenital word-blindness






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






47. Closed syllable






48. 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






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






50. 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.