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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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






2. Open syllable






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






4. 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






5. Closed syllable






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






7. 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






8. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable






9. 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






10. 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.






11. English as a second language






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






13. Multisensory Structured Language Education






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






15. 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 -






16. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness






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

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18. 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






19. 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






20. Individuals with a Disabilities Act






21. 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.






22. 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.






23. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.






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






25. 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.






26. 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






27. A test in which a student's performance is compared to that of a norm group. Often used to measure and compare students - schools - districts and states.






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






29. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.






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






31. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning






32. State Board of Eduation






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






34. 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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35. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






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






37. 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






38. 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






39. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






40. 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.






41. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development

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42. 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






43. The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send picture or phonic/dictionary notation that indicates a long sound.






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






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. 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






47. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.






48. 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






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






50. State Law. Requires testing - Requires that students enrolled in public schools be tested for dyslexia. - Requires treatment (teaching)