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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.






2. 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.






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






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






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






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






7. Feeling through fingertips






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


9. MSLE instruction requires that organization on material follow the logical order of the language. Sequence must begin with the easiest and progress to more difficult material. Each step must be based on prior knowledge.






10. 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






11. 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






12. Academic Language Therapy Association






13. 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)






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






15. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development


16. 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.






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






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






19. English as a second language






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






21. Open syllable






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






23. 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.






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






25. Multisensory Structured Language






26. 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






27. Final stable syllable


28. 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






29. 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.






30. Individual Educational Plan






31. 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






32. 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






33. Comprehensive end-of-year exams - reflecting the specific subject matter outlines in the curriculum.






34. 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






35. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.






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






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






38. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






39. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.






40. Reading for Learning "the New" - Expand vocabularies - build background and world knowledge - develop strategic habits


41. Vowel - consonant - e syllable






42. 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






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






44. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)






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






46. 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






47. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile






48. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS






49. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound






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