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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

Subject : certifications
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. Stress or emphasis on one syllable in a word or on one or more words in a phrase or sentence. The accented part is spoken louder - longer - and/or in a higher tone. The speaker's mouth opens wider while saying an accented syllable.






2. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.






3. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies






4. Ability to understand and express spoken language






5. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.






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






7. 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.






8. 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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9. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel






10. Individual Educational Plan






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






12. 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.






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






14. 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






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






16. Provide different ways for kids to take in information or communicate their knowledge back to you. The changes do not alter or lower the standards or expectations of a subject or a test.






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

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






19. 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.






20. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction






21. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development

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22. Open syllable






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






24. 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






25. English as a second language






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






27. Confirmation and Fluency - Decoding skills - Fluency - additional strategies

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28. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






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






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






31. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view

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






33. 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






34. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






35. 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.






36. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT






37. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality






38. Vowel - consonant - e syllable






39. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development






40. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children






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






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






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






44. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.






45. Individuals with a Disabilities Act






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






47. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test






48. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.






49. The ancient Britons (Celts) conquered by Caesar in 54 c.e. - Celtic and Latin languages co-exist - Teutonic tribes (Jutes - Angles and Saxons invade) - Anglo-Saxon layer of language






50. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test