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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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






2. 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






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






4. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.






5. Effective for special needs - Uses all possible senses - tracing - saying - listening - looking - Typically called VAKT - Visual - Auditory - Kinesthetic - Tactile - Can be used with either Phonics or Whole Language






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






7. 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.






8. State Board of Eduation






9. 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 -






10. r-controlled syllable






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






12. 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






13. Feeling through fingertips






14. 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






15. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents






16. 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.






17. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






18. 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






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






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






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






22. 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






23. 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.






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






25. The process of systematically gathering test scores and related data in order to make judgement about an individuals ability to perform various mental activities involved in the processing - acquisition - retention - conceptualization - and organizat






26. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships

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27. 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






28. Final stable syllable

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29. Vowel - consonant - e syllable






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






31. 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






32. 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.






33. 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.






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






35. Was a pivotal event in English history. It largely removed the native ruling class - replacing it with a foreign - French-speaking monarchy - aristocracy - and clerical hierarchy. This - in turn - brought about a transformation of the English languag






36. 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






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






38. Tests used to identify the nature and source of an individual's educational - psychological - or medical difficulties or disabilities in order to facilitate correction or remediation.






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






40. 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






41. Use - pictures - charts - maps - graphs - etc...clear view of teacher - color to highlight important text - ask teacher to provide handouts - illustrate ideas as pictures before writing them down - use multi media






42. A morpheme attached to the end of a word that creates a word with a different form or use. Suffixes include inflected forms indicating tense - number - person and comparatives.






43. Wide Range Achievement Test






44. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U






45. A districts dyslexia program is considered part of the basic - required curriculum. Therefore - state compensatory education funds can only be used to provide programs - projects - activities - and materials that supplement that district's regular dy






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






47. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development






48. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.

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

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50. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder