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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. 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






2. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children






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






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






5. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.






6. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.






7. Children may be physical and socially immature - may be awkward in social situations - may have difficulty reading social cues - may have trouble finding the right words - stammering. - may feel anxious in school






8. A significant unit of visual shape. We use the visual shape as to cover not only writing - but also any other shape perceived by the eye which is a visible representation of a unit of speech. A single graphic letter or letter cluster which represents






9. Is a specific learning disability that is neurological in origin. It is characterized by difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities. These difficulties typically result from a deficit in the






10. 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.






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






12. 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.






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






14. Paired association between letters and letter sounds; an approach to teaching of reading and spelling that emphasizes sound-symbol relationships - especially in early instruction.






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






16. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia






17. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928






18. 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.






19. 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






20. 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






21. 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






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






23. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.






24. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound






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

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






27. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder






28. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel






29. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction






30. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.






31. Whole body learning






32. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes






33. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language






34. 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






35. Making sense of what we read. Comprehension is dependent on good word recognition - fluency - vocabulary - worldly knowledge - and language ability.






36. 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






37. 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.






38. 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






39. English as a second language






40. Feeling through fingertips






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






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






44. Comprehensive end-of-year exams - reflecting the specific subject matter outlines in the curriculum.






45. 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.






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






47. 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






48. 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






49. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test






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







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