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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.
Sight Words
Academic Achievement Tests
Phonics approach
Letter naming Chart
2. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Attention
Consonant Digraph
Phoneme
3. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.
Percentile
Texas Education Code 28.06
Semantics
Joe Torgesen
4. 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
Phonemic Awareness
Achievement test
Chall's Stage 4
MSL
5. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.
Pre-English
Reading Comprehension Support
IDEA
Standard score
6. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)
Quadrigraph
Combination
CTOPP
Multisensory
7. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)
Criterion referenced tests
Breve
Receptive language
Trigraph
8. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others
MSLE
Criterion-Referenced Test
Expressive language
Composite Score
9. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality
Derived Score
Visual Learners
Morpheme
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
10. 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)
Breve
Combination
Criterion referenced tests
Diagnostic Teaching
11. 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
Criterion referenced tests
[-'le
SBOE
Criterion-Referenced Test
12. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.
Orthography
Chall's Stage 4
Texas Education Code 38.003
Oral Language
13. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness
Chall's Stage 2
Phonemic Awareness
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
14. 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.
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Battery
IMSLEC
Standard deviation
15. 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.
Progress Monitoring
Anglo Saxon
Cedilla
Texas Education Code 38.003
16. r-controlled syllable
Vr
IDEA
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Cognition
17. 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
Achievement test
Phonics approach
IDEA
Academic Achievement Tests
18. Set of principles that dictate the sequence and function of words in a sentence in order to convey meaning - must include grammar - sentence types - and mechanics of language
Letter naming Chart
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
ADHD
Syntax
19. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.
Phonology
Auditory Learners
Latin layer of language
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
20. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children
Trigraph
V >
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Norm-referenced tests
21. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.
Base Word
Phoneme
Phonology
MSLE
22. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test
Reliability
Trigraph
VC
Chall's Stage 4
23. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile
VAKT
Latin layer of language
Comprehension
Achievement test
24. 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
V-e
Diphthong
ADHD
Morpheme
25. Academic Language Therapy Association
IEP
ALTA
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Ability
26. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.
Letter naming Chart
Modification
Top-down Reading Approach
Progress Monitoring
27. 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
Sight Words
Towre
CTOPP
IMSLEC
28. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.
Closed Syllable
Criterion-Referenced Test
RTI
ESL
29. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"
Adolf Kusmaul
Linguistic Method
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Anna Gillingham
30. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.
Funding
Profile
Texas Education Code 28.06
Phonemic/ decodable words
31. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view
32. A districts dyslexia program is considered part of the basic - required curriculum. Therefore - state compensatory education funds can only be used to provide programs - projects - activities - and materials that supplement that district's regular dy
Three Layers of Language
Grade equivalents
Funding
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
33. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)
Vowel
Components of Reading Instruction
VV
SBOE
34. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.
Receptive language
Phoneme
Three Layers of Language
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
35. 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.
James Hinshelwood
Keith Stanovich
Standard Scores
Diagnostic Teaching
36. 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
Joe Torgesen
ADHD
Profile
Rate
37. The percentile score on - for example - a test is the score that represents the percent of other scores to or lower than is. If a student performs in the 85% of his or her class - it means the 85% of the other scores of students who also took the tes
Syntax
IDEA
Criterion referenced tests
Percentile/ percentile rank
38. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.
Consonant
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Trigraph
Diagnostic tests
39. 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
40. State Board of Eduation
Visual Processing
SBOE
Derived Score
James Hinshelwood
41. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.
Accuracy
VAKT
Composite Score
Analytic
42. 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
Auditory Learners
Standard score
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
43. 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
Achievement test
Multi-Sensory Approach
Affix
The Norman Conquest
44. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.
45. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.
Orthography
Mastery level
Stanine Scores
Visual Processing
46. Inferential learning of a concept cannot be take for granted! Never assume!
Morphology
Prefix
Direct Instruction
Latin layer of language
47. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT
Phoneme
Standardized test
Tilde
Expressive language
48. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.
49. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.
Kinesthetic
ADHD
Raw score
V >
50. Comprehensive end-of-year exams - reflecting the specific subject matter outlines in the curriculum.
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Curriculum referenced tests
Universal Screening