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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS
V-e
Chall's Stage 5
Mathew Effect
Criterion referenced tests
2. 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
Rate
IDEA
Achievement test
Standard Scores
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.
Sight Words
Reliability
Syllable
Trigraph
4. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view
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5. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)
Keith Stanovich
Morphology
Quadrigraph
ESL
6. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment
Trigraph
Phonology
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
V-e
7. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile
Cognition
VAKT
V-e
Linguistic Method
8. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
VV
Digraph
Trigraph
Linguistic Method
9. Ability to understand and express spoken language
Chall's Stage 1
Oral Language
Vowel
Modern English
10. 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
Cognitive Assessment
Sound Symbol Association
Phonics approach
Auditory Processing
11. 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
Quadrigraph
James Hinshelwood
Diagnostic tests
Battery
12. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.
Multisensory
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Standard score
RTI
13. 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.
Joe Torgesen
RTI
Syllable
Standard deviation
14. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel
Adolf Kusmaul
Impulsivity
Chall's Stage 5
IEP
15. An ability test is designed to measure either your general intelligence or your mental aptitude in a particular area. For example
Ability
Consonant Digraph
Diagnostic tests
Matthew Effect
16. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.
Visual Learners
Visual Processing
Consonant Digraph
Chall's Stage 1
17. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928
Modern English
Components of Reading Instruction
Vowel Digraph
Percentile/ percentile rank
18. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.
WRAT
Semantics
Modification
Pre-English
19. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable
Six basic types of syllables
Syllable Instruction
Social language
MSL
20. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Old English
Accuracy
21. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.
James Hinshelwood
Simultaneous teaching
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Standard Scores
22. Open syllable
Semantics
V >
James Hinshelwood
Standard Scores
23. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.
Macron
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Simultaneous teaching
Morpheme
24. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.
Matthew Effect
Multisensory
Standard deviation
Curriculum referenced tests
25. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Chall's Stage 4
Base Word
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
26. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)
Joe Torgesen
Derived Score
The Norman Conquest
Greek layer of language
27. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)
Top-down Reading Approach
Trigraph
Morphology
RTI
28. 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
GORT
Components of Reading Instruction
VC
Derivative
29. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time
Social language
Suffix
Rate
Whole Language
30. English as a second language
ESL
Mathew Effect
Multi-Sensory Approach
CTOPP
31. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.
WRAT
Analytic
Phonemic/ decodable words
Consonant
32. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.
Profile
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Anna Gillingham
Texas Education Code 28.06
33. Inferential learning of a concept cannot be take for granted! Never assume!
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Direct Instruction
Tilde
Mathew Effect
34. Final stable syllable
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35. Multisensory Structured Language
Semantics
Direct Instruction
VV
MSL
36. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
Achievement test
Breve
Consonant Digraph
Trigraph
37. 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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38. 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
Linguistic Method
Achievement test
Rate
Cognition
39. 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
Auditory Learners
Combination
Visual Learners
Old English
40. A diacritical marking. A wavy line placed over any vowel before r in a combination to indicate the unaccented pronunciation eg letter. The tildes used both in coding words and in a sound picture. When the pronunciation of any unaccented vowel-r combi
Raw score
Tilde
Percentile
Percentile/ percentile rank
41. 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
Accent
Phoneme
Chall's Stage 0
Grade equivalents
42. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes
Derivative
V-e
V >
Analytic
43. Vowel - consonant - e syllable
Samuel T. Orton
Mastery level
V-e
VC
44. Multisensory Structured Language Education
Three Layers of Language
MSLE
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Profile
45. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words
Composite Score
Vr
Sight Words
Phonological Awareness
46. A group of several test standardized on the same sample population so that results on the several tests are comparable. Example : School achievement tests
Battery
Closed Syllable
Norm-Referenced Test
Phoneme
47. Nationally known for research on both the prevention and remediation of reading difficulties in young children as well as work on assessment of phonological awareness and reading
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Joe Torgesen
Synthetic Instruction
Consonant
48. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children
Norm-referenced tests
Letter naming Chart
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
WIATII
49. Alphabetic principle" and its relationship to phonemic awareness and phonological awareness in reading
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Vowel
Impulsivity
Syllable
50. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness
Phonemic Awareness
Digraph
Auditory Processing
Diagnostic tests