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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Accuracy
Kinesthetic
Direct Instruction
ADHD
2. 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.
Standard Scores
Consonant Digraph
Criterion referenced tests
ADHD
3. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability
Greek layer of language
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Visual Processing
Progress Monitoring
4. Academic Language Therapy Association
Derived Score
SBOE
ALTA
Reading Comprehension Support
5. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view
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6. Final stable syllable
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7. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel
WIATII
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Phoneme
Impulsivity
8. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Breve
ALTA
Modern English
9. Paired association between letters and letter sounds; an approach to teaching of reading and spelling that emphasizes sound-symbol relationships - especially in early instruction.
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Expressive language
Phonics
Grade equivalents
10. 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
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Vowel Digraph
Whole Language
Standard score
11. Reading for Learning "the New" - Expand vocabularies - build background and world knowledge - develop strategic habits
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12. 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.
Top-down Reading Approach
RTI
Syllable
Diagnostic tests
13. English as a second language
Suffix
MSL
ESL
Chall's Stage 0
14. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.
Analytic
Derived Score
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Texas Education Code 28.06
15. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Matthew Effect
Simultaneous teaching
V-e
16. Confirmation and Fluency - Decoding skills - Fluency - additional strategies
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17. Open syllable
Cognitive Assessment
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
V >
Vr
18. 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
Macron
Matthew Effect
Whole Language
Syntax
19. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies
Cedilla
Phonics
Components of Reading Instruction
ESL
20. Making sense of what we read. Comprehension is dependent on good word recognition - fluency - vocabulary - worldly knowledge - and language ability.
Auditory Learners
Pre-English
Comprehension
IMSLEC
21. 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
GORT
Dyslexia
Tilde
Greek layer of language
22. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.
Digraph
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Chall's Stage 1
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
23. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"
Morphology
Adolf Kusmaul
Stanine Scores
Direct Instruction
24. 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.
WIATII
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Cedilla
Diagnostic Teaching
25. 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
Curriculum referenced tests
Visual Learners
V >
Accommodation
26. 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
Multi-Sensory Approach
Middle English
Standard score
Percentile/ percentile rank
27. 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
Matthew Effect
Modern English
Grapheme
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
28. Feeling through fingertips
Tactile
Multisensory
Attention
Oral Language
29. Is one that provides for translating test scores into a statement about the behavior to be expected of a person with that score or their relationship to a specified subject matter. Most tests and quizzes written by school teachers are criterion-refer
Criterion-Referenced Test
Linguistic Method
Phonemic Awareness
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
30. State Board of Eduation
ESL
Battery
Kinesthetic
SBOE
31. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program
Synthetic Instruction
Diphthong
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Mathew Effect
32. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.
Sound Symbol Association
Phonemic Awareness
Accommodation
Norm-referenced tests
33. Whole body learning
Trigraph
Accuracy
Joe Torgesen
Kinesthetic
34. 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
Frank Smith
Derived Score
Morpheme
Dyslexia
35. 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
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Kinesthetic
Cognition
VV
36. 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.
Modification
Chall's Stage 2
Standard deviation
Chall's Stage 0
37. A word that is immediately recognized as a whole and does not require decoding to identify. A sight word may or may not be phonetically regular.
ESL
Sight Words
WRAT
Orthography
38. 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
Comprehension
Phonemic Awareness
GORT
Cedilla
39. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents
Percentile
Grade equivalents
CTOPP
Diphthong
40. 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
Fluency
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Tilde
Stanine Scores
41. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile
Linguistic Method
VC
Auditory Learners
VAKT
42. 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
Auditory Processing
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Letter naming Chart
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
43. Closed syllable
Impulsivity
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
VC
Direct Instruction
44. listening - remembering - and understanding what someone else says.
Kinesthetic
Standardized test
Percentile/ percentile rank
Receptive language
45. Ability to understand and express spoken language
Cognition
Diagnostic tests
Oral Language
VV
46. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.
IEP
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Battery
Base Word
47. 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
Grapheme
Digraph
Texas Education Code 28.06
Mastery level
48. 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
Accuracy
Diphthong
Phoneme
Digraph
49. 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.
Keith Stanovich
Impulsivity
Combination
Syllable
50. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.
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