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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view
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2. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.
Rate
Derivative
Analytic
Phonemic/ decodable words
3. 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
Visual Learners
Chall's Stage 2
Phonics approach
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
4. 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
Auditory Learners
Cedilla
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Tactile
5. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.
Morphology
Progress Monitoring
Great Vowel Shift
James Hinshelwood
6. 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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7. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language
James Hinshelwood
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Cedilla
Accent
8. Confirmation and Fluency - Decoding skills - Fluency - additional strategies
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9. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.
Fluency
Components of Reading Instruction
Anna Gillingham
Closed Syllable
10. Take frequent study breaks - move around to learn new things - work at a standing position - chew gum while standing - listen to music while studying - skim material first then read in detail
Stanine Scores
Standard Scores
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
RTI
11. 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.
Auditory Learners
Syntax
Mathew Effect
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
12. 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
Raw score
Receptive language
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Latin layer of language
13. Open syllable
IMSLEC
V >
Pre-English
Texas Education Code 28.06
14. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test
Multisensory
Accommodation
Reliability
Standard score
15. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel
Standard Scores
Chall's Stage 3
Latin layer of language
Impulsivity
16. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.
Sound Symbol Association
Dyslexia
Vowel Digraph
WRAT
17. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.
Tactile
Percentile/ percentile rank
SBOE
Universal Screening
18. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.
ALTA
Matthew Effect
Universal Screening
Latin layer of language
19. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning
Rate
Reliability
Chall's Stage 0
Reading Comprehension Support
20. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.
Linguistic Method
Diagnostic tests
Greek layer of language
Components of Reading Instruction
21. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)
Greek layer of language
Combination
Funding
Texas Education Code 38.003
22. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
VV
Frank Smith
GORT
23. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound
Rate
Vowel Digraph
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Syllable
24. 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.
Keith Stanovich
Components of Reading Instruction
Cognition
V-e
25. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.
Anna Gillingham
Grapheme
Syllable
Semantics
26. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.
Battery
Phonemic/ decodable words
Greek layer of language
Morphology
27. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.
Standard score
Curriculum referenced tests
Diphthong
Multi-Sensory Approach
28. 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
VC
Achievement test
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Adolf Kusmaul
29. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek
SBOE
Three Layers of Language
Attention
Criterion referenced tests
30. Gray Oral Reading Test-Fourth Edition Screening test. Provides an efficient and objective measure of growth in oral reading and an aid in the diagnosis of oral reading difficulties Standard Scores - Percentile Ranks - Grade Equivalents - Age Equivale
Suffix
IDEA
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
GORT
31. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes
Fluency
Derivative
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
32. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"
Adolf Kusmaul
Progress Monitoring
Samuel T. Orton
GORT
33. 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
Criterion referenced tests
Joe Torgesen
Stanine Scores
Samuel T. Orton
34. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
Digraph
Chall's Stage 3
Phonics approach
Modern English
35. A term coined by Stanovich to describe a phenomenon observed in findings of cumulative advantage for children who read well and have good vocabulary and cumulative disadvantage for those who have inadequate vocabularies and read less and thus have lo
Matthew Effect
Reading Comprehension Support
Analytic
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
36. Vowel - consonant - e syllable
V-e
Combination
Great Vowel Shift
Syllable Instruction
37. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test
Top-down Reading Approach
Phonics approach
WIATII
Standard Scores
38. Ability to understand and express spoken language
Visual Processing
Cedilla
Oral Language
Components of Reading Instruction
39. 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.
Auditory Learners
Diagnostic Teaching
Phonology
Visual Learners
40. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.
Phoneme
Academic Achievement Tests
Six basic types of syllables
Multisensory
41. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia
Derivative
Dyslexia
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Middle English
42. 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
IDEA
Towre
James Hinshelwood
Sight Words
43. Paired association between letters and letter sounds; an approach to teaching of reading and spelling that emphasizes sound-symbol relationships - especially in early instruction.
WRAT
Sound Symbol Association
Phonics
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
44. 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.
Great Vowel Shift
Mastery level
MSLE
Suffix
45. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others
Three Layers of Language
Base Word
Expressive language
Semantics
46. 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.
Expressive language
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Frank Smith
Consonant
47. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.
Phonology
Multi-Sensory Approach
Prefix
Macron
48. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.
Quadrigraph
WIATII
VC
Orthography
49. 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.
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Diphthong
Impulsivity
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
50. 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
Towre
NICHD
Components of Reading Instruction
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
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