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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. Effective for special needs - Uses all possible senses - tracing - saying - listening - looking - Typically called VAKT - Visual - Auditory - Kinesthetic - Tactile - Can be used with either Phonics or Whole Language






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






3. 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






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






5. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.






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






7. 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






8. 1925 - Coined the term "strephosymbolia" which means twisted symbols; Pathologist - neurologist and psychitrist in the US - studied with Dr. Alzheimer in Germany - work influenced by James Hinshelwood






9. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.






10. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.






11. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies






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






13. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.






14. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"






15. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.






16. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)






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






18. 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






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






20. 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






21. 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.






22. Final stable syllable

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23. 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)






24. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.

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25. Provide different ways for kids to take in information or communicate their knowledge back to you. The changes do not alter or lower the standards or expectations of a subject or a test.






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






27. 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






28. Involve at least two people. It includes the ability to maintain eye contact - understand body language of others - take turns in a conversation - stick to the subject - and use oral language appropriate for the situation.






29. 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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30. 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.






31. 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






32. 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






33. English as a second language






34. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia






35. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder






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






37. Proceeds from the whole to the part - suggests that processing of a text begins in the mind of the readers. Meaning is brought to print not derived from print.






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






39. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable






40. 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.






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






42. 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






43. Two vowels standing adjacent in the same syllable whose sounds blend smoothly together in one syllable. There are only four diphthongs in English. These are ou/out - ow/cow - oi/oil - oy - boy






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






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

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46. 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






47. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept






48. 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






49. 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






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