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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.
Battery
Consonant Digraph
Age equivalent
Academic Achievement Tests
2. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words
Phonemic Awareness
Chall's Stage 5
Phonological Awareness
Impulsivity
3. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek
Mathew Effect
Three Layers of Language
Accommodation
Criterion referenced tests
4. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.
Reliability
Rate
Stanine Scores
V-e
5. Multisensory Structured Language Education
MSLE
Rate
Phonics
Accent
6. 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
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Consonant
Fluency
Macron
7. Reading for Learning "the New" - Expand vocabularies - build background and world knowledge - develop strategic habits
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8. Ability to understand and express spoken language
Prefix
Oral Language
Old English
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
9. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)
Combination
Trigraph
ADHD
Ability
10. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development
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11. 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
Simultaneous teaching
The Norman Conquest
Vowel
VC
12. Most soundly supported by research for effective instruction in beginning reading - Must be explicitly taught - Must be systematically organized and sequenced - Must include learning how to blend sounds together
Stanine Scores
Accuracy
Phonics approach
Sight Words
13. 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.
Age equivalent
Cognition
Affix
Chall's Stage 4
14. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.
Criterion-Referenced Test
Sound Symbol Association
Mastery level
Great Vowel Shift
15. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)
V >
Digraph
Grapheme
VV
16. A pattern of letters (found in a single syllable) which occurs frequently together. The pronunciation of at least one of the component parts is unexpected or the letters stand in an unexpected sequence ( ar - er - ir - or - us - qu - wh)
Norm-Referenced Test
Attention
Orthography
Combination
17. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test
Reliability
Vowel
Base Word
Impulsivity
18. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.
Phonemic/ decodable words
MSL
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Joe Torgesen
19. Is a type of test - assessment - or evaluation which yields an estimate of the position of the tested individual in a predefined population - with respect to the trait being measured. This estimate is derived from the analysis of test scores and poss
Components of Reading Instruction
Funding
Cognition
Norm-Referenced Test
20. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.
Modification
Chall's Stage 5
Three Layers of Language
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
21. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability
Consonant Digraph
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Stanine Scores
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
22. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.
Derivative
Closed Syllable
Accuracy
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
23. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound
Fluency
Vowel Digraph
Composite Score
Standard deviation
24. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.
Latin layer of language
Kinesthetic
Consonant
CTOPP
25. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)
Macron
Open Syllable
Affix
Battery
26. 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
James Hinshelwood
Top-down Reading Approach
Progress Monitoring
Towre
27. Making sense of what we read. Comprehension is dependent on good word recognition - fluency - vocabulary - worldly knowledge - and language ability.
Comprehension
Combination
Sound Symbol Association
Expressive language
28. 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
SBOE
Phonics approach
Great Vowel Shift
Samuel T. Orton
29. Comprehensive end-of-year exams - reflecting the specific subject matter outlines in the curriculum.
Modern English
Macron
Raw score
Curriculum referenced tests
30. Is one that provides for translating test scores into a statement about the behavior to be expected of a person with that score or their relationship to a specified subject matter. Most tests and quizzes written by school teachers are criterion-refer
Semantics
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Keith Stanovich
Criterion-Referenced Test
31. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)
Battery
Derived Score
Accommodation
Auditory Processing
32. 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
Comprehension
Reading Comprehension Support
Phonology
33. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.
Modern English
Mastery level
Progress Monitoring
Phonemic Awareness
34. Vowel - consonant - e syllable
Greek layer of language
Diagnostic Teaching
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
V-e
35. 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.
Suffix
V >
Stanine Scores
Standard deviation
36. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.
Keith Stanovich
Modification
James Hinshelwood
Semantics
37. Paired association between letters and letter sounds; an approach to teaching of reading and spelling that emphasizes sound-symbol relationships - especially in early instruction.
Phonics
Visual Processing
Trigraph
Rate
38. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
Morphology
Prefix
Closed Syllable
Consonant Digraph
39. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.
Three Layers of Language
Diagnostic Teaching
Base Word
Receptive language
40. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning
Visual Processing
Frank Smith
Percentile
Reading Comprehension Support
41. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Dyslexia
Pre-English
42. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.
Three Layers of Language
Multisensory
Trigraph
Composite Score
43. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.
Mathew Effect
Universal Screening
Modification
Chall's Stage 4
44. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.
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45. 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
Phonics approach
Derivative
Grade equivalents
Towre
46. 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
Phonemic/ decodable words
GORT
Letter naming Chart
Percentile/ percentile rank
47. Selective focus on what is important while screening out distractions.
Attention
Components of Reading Instruction
VAKT
Vowel Digraph
48. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents
CTOPP
Expressive language
MSL
Breve
49. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children
VAKT
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Reliability
Chall's Stage 3
50. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable
Six basic types of syllables
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Great Vowel Shift
Chall's Stage 5
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