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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. A spoken or written unit that must have a vowel sound and that may include consonants that precede or follow that vowel. Syllables are units of sound made by one impulse of voice.
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Chall's Stage 4
Standardized test
Syllable
2. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.
Stanine Scores
Age equivalent
Derivative
ADHD
3. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies
Academic Achievement Tests
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Components of Reading Instruction
Open Syllable
4. 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.
Accuracy
Standard score
Consonant
Middle English
5. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program
Morpheme
Consonant Digraph
Synthetic Instruction
Standardized test
6. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words
Battery
Profile
Phonological Awareness
Rate
7. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.
RTI
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Auditory Processing
Rate
8. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development
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9. Multisensory Structured Language
Whole Language
Achievement test
MSL
Phonological Awareness
10. Reading for Learning "the New" - Expand vocabularies - build background and world knowledge - develop strategic habits
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11. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.
Phonics
VV
Texas Education Code 28.06
Closed Syllable
12. 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
Criterion referenced tests
Grade equivalents
Derivative
Sight Words
13. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test
Linguistic Method
WIATII
Visual Processing
RTI
14. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.
Standard Scores
Age equivalent
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
MSLE
15. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)
Quadrigraph
IDEA
Academic Achievement Tests
Chall's Stage 2
16. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.
Standard deviation
Syllable Instruction
Prefix
Fluency
17. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Whole Language
Syllable Instruction
Rate
18. 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
Phonological Awareness
Morphology
Great Vowel Shift
Analytic
19. 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
Kinesthetic
Criterion referenced tests
Phonics
Progress Monitoring
20. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes
Morphology
Cognition
Closed Syllable
Kinesthetic
21. 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.
Standardized test
Anna Gillingham
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Sight Words
22. 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
Towre
VAKT
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Grade equivalents
23. Final stable syllable
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24. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.
Base Word
Curriculum referenced tests
Rate
Greek layer of language
25. 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
Tilde
Three Layers of Language
Syllable Instruction
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
26. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.
Prefix
Cognition
WRAT
Affix
27. 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
Consonant Digraph
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Impulsivity
Norm-Referenced Test
28. An ability test is designed to measure either your general intelligence or your mental aptitude in a particular area. For example
Synthetic Instruction
VC
Ability
Combination
29. 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
Cedilla
Kinesthetic
Syntax
Morpheme
30. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)
Derived Score
Social language
Oral Language
Phonics approach
31. 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
Letter naming Chart
Auditory Learners
Attention
Diagnostic tests
32. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
ADHD
Syntax
Standardized test
IDEA
33. Academic Language Therapy Association
Cedilla
ALTA
GORT
Vowel
34. Multisensory Structured Language Education
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Phonological Awareness
MSLE
Social language
35. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept
Joe Torgesen
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Frank Smith
Rate
36. 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
Diphthong
Consonant Digraph
Phonemic Awareness
ADHD
37. 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.
Closed Syllable
Chall's Stage 3
Accent
VV
38. Supported only by "qualitative research" instead of quantitative research - Teaches "whole words" in word families - Students are not explicitly taught that there is a relationship between letters and sounds for most sounds
Linguistic Method
Prefix
Towre
V-e
39. 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
Whole Language
Cedilla
Matthew Effect
Auditory Processing
40. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.
Profile
Simultaneous teaching
Direct Instruction
Standard deviation
41. 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
Academic Achievement Tests
Letter naming Chart
Cognition
42. 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.
Components of Reading Instruction
Tactile
Old English
Modern English
43. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet
Letter naming Chart
Diagnostic Teaching
Standard deviation
Percentile
44. The ancient Britons (Celts) conquered by Caesar in 54 c.e. - Celtic and Latin languages co-exist - Teutonic tribes (Jutes - Angles and Saxons invade) - Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Linguistic Method
Pre-English
Syntax
Consonant Digraph
45. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.
Chall's Stage 0
Stanine Scores
Six basic types of syllables
Chall's Stage 3
46. 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
Orthography
Funding
Receptive language
47. 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
Old English
Consonant Digraph
Prefix
48. State Board of Eduation
IDEA
[-'le
Base Word
SBOE
49. Open syllable
V >
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Digraph
Impulsivity
50. 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.
James Hinshelwood
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
ALTA
Cognition