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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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






2. Alphabetic principle" and its relationship to phonemic awareness and phonological awareness in reading






3. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.






4. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction






5. Reading for Learning "the New" - Expand vocabularies - build background and world knowledge - develop strategic habits

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






7. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet






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






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






10. 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.






11. 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






12. 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






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






14. 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.






15. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia






16. An ability test is designed to measure either your general intelligence or your mental aptitude in a particular area. For example






17. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.






18. 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






19. 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






20. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.






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






22. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children






23. 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.






24. 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.






25. 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






26. Is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the






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






28. 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






29. 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.






30. Inferential learning of a concept cannot be take for granted! Never assume!






31. 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.






32. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.






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






34. listening - remembering - and understanding what someone else says.






35. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






36. 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






37. Whole body learning






38. Individuals with a Disabilities Act






39. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.






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






41. Individual Educational Plan






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






43. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)






44. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.






45. Open syllable






46. 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 -






47. 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.






48. Participate in classroom discussions - make speeches/presentations - use tape records during lectures - read text out loud - create musical jingles - create mnemonics to aid memorization - discuss ideas verbally






49. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.






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