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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

Subject : certifications
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 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.






2. 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






3. English as a second language






4. 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






5. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.






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






7. Confirmation and Fluency - Decoding skills - Fluency - additional strategies


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






9. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"






10. 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.






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






12. 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






13. 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.






14. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment






15. The teacher musts be adept at individualized teaching based on continual assessment of the student's needs. Content should be mastered to a level of automaticity.






16. 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






17. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






18. Individual Educational Plan






19. 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






20. 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






21. 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






22. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.






23. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






24. r-controlled syllable






25. 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.






26. A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of structural linguistics.






27. 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.






28. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






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






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






31. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






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






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






34. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words






35. 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.






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






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






38. Final stable syllable


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






40. 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.






41. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.






42. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.






43. A group of several test standardized on the same sample population so that results on the several tests are comparable. Example : School achievement tests






44. 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


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






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






47. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.






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






49. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test






50. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound