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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
Diagnostic tests
Grade equivalents
Social language
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
2. 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
Syntax
Texas Education Code 38.003
Anna Gillingham
Attention
3. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.
Morpheme
Kinesthetic
Percentile
RTI
4. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes
V >
Grade equivalents
Derivative
Texas Education Code 38.003
5. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships
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6. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel
Impulsivity
ALTA
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Visual Learners
7. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.
Phonics approach
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Greek layer of language
Raw score
8. English as a second language
ESL
Age equivalent
Visual Processing
Texas Education Code 28.06
9. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.
Letter naming Chart
Universal Screening
Comprehension
Academic Achievement Tests
10. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test
Phonics
Chall's Stage 3
WIATII
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
11. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia
V-e
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Vr
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
12. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment
Phonology
Pre-English
Derivative
CTOPP
13. r-controlled syllable
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Latin layer of language
Chall's Stage 2
Vr
14. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.
Base Word
Profile
Morphology
Oral Language
15. State Board of Eduation
Suffix
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
Rate
SBOE
16. Individuals with a Disabilities Act
IDEA
Phonology
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Six basic types of syllables
17. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U
Academic Achievement Tests
Diagnostic Teaching
Open Syllable
Vowel
18. Paired association between letters and letter sounds; an approach to teaching of reading and spelling that emphasizes sound-symbol relationships - especially in early instruction.
Phonics
Cedilla
Stanine Scores
Frank Smith
19. 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
Modern English
WIATII
Breve
Auditory Learners
20. 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.
Anglo Saxon
Visual Processing
Derived Score
Multisensory
21. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.
SBOE
Sight Words
Visual Processing
WRAT
22. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"
Progress Monitoring
Letter naming Chart
Chall's Stage 1
Adolf Kusmaul
23. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)
Reading Comprehension Support
Derived Score
Vowel Digraph
Phoneme
24. 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
Academic Achievement Tests
Texas Education Code 38.003
Phoneme
Criterion referenced tests
25. 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
Open Syllable
Joe Torgesen
ALTA
Comprehension
26. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view
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27. 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
Great Vowel Shift
Battery
Six basic types of syllables
Morpheme
28. 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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29. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.
Multisensory
Simultaneous teaching
Reading Comprehension Support
Profile
30. A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of structural linguistics.
[-'le
Joe Torgesen
Morpheme
IDEA
31. 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.
ALTA
Orthography
Analytic
Syllable
32. 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
Auditory Processing
Modern English
Vr
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
33. A group of several test standardized on the same sample population so that results on the several tests are comparable. Example : School achievement tests
Semantics
Fluency
Sight Words
Battery
34. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable
Accent
Auditory Learners
ESL
Six basic types of syllables
35. 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
Breve
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Phonemic/ decodable words
Cedilla
36. 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
Oral Language
Anna Gillingham
The Norman Conquest
Phonological Awareness
37. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
Fluency
Chall's Stage 3
NICHD
Digraph
38. 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.
Vr
Old English
Cognition
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
39. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS
Morphology
Morpheme
Phoneme
Mathew Effect
40. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.
SBOE
Universal Screening
Phonics
Stanine Scores
41. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.
SBOE
Derived Score
Accuracy
Visual Learners
42. Whole body learning
VV
Base Word
Kinesthetic
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
43. Final stable syllable
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44. 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
Samuel T. Orton
Morphology
Impulsivity
Matthew Effect
45. 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
ESL
Diphthong
Chall's Stage 4
Tilde
46. Alphabetic principle" and its relationship to phonemic awareness and phonological awareness in reading
Morphology
Combination
Receptive language
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
47. 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
Oral Language
Percentile/ percentile rank
Matthew Effect
Greek layer of language
48. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents
Simultaneous teaching
Sight Words
CTOPP
Attention
49. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness
Phonemic Awareness
VC
Orthography
Impulsivity
50. 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.
Middle English
Morphology
Top-down Reading Approach
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia