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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.






2. Whole body learning






3. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






4. 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






5. Academic Language Therapy Association






6. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes






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






8. 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






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






10. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT






11. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test






12. 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.






13. Multisensory Structured Language






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






15. 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






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.






17. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






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. Open syllable






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






21. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.






22. 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.






23. 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






24. 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






25. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test






26. Selective focus on what is important while screening out distractions.






27. 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.






28. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time






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






30. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view

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31. 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.






32. 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






33. 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.






34. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development






35. Wide Range Achievement Test






36. 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.






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

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38. A type of derived score such that the distribution of these scores for a specified population has convenient known values for the mean and standard deviation.






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






40. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek






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






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






43. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.

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44. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.






45. 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.






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






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






48. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.






49. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.






50. 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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