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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. listening - remembering - and understanding what someone else says.






2. 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.






3. 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)






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






5. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program






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






7. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.






8. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.






9. 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






10. 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.






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






12. 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






13. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound






14. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)






15. 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.






16. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.






17. 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.






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






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






20. Multisensory Structured Language






21. 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






22. Ability to understand and express spoken language






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






24. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)






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






26. 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






27. Inferential learning of a concept cannot be take for granted! Never assume!






28. Edward III - English again becomes the official language of the state -Chaucer - Canterbury Tales - English borrows from Latin and Greek languages - Anglo-French compounds appear (gentlewomen - gentlemen - faithful - etc) - Latin layer of language -






29. A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that is different that the base word or root.






30. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






31. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.






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






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






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






35. 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






36. English as a second language






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






38. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.






39. 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






40. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.






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

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42. Individuals with a Disabilities Act






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






44. 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.






45. Whole body learning






46. Gray Oral Reading Test-Fourth Edition Screening test. Provides an efficient and objective measure of growth in oral reading and an aid in the diagnosis of oral reading difficulties Standard Scores - Percentile Ranks - Grade Equivalents - Age Equivale






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






48. Academic Language Therapy Association






49. 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






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