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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Paired association between letters and letter sounds; an approach to teaching of reading and spelling that emphasizes sound-symbol relationships - especially in early instruction.
Phonics
Receptive language
Academic Achievement Tests
Consonant Digraph
2. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words
Syllable
Sound Symbol Association
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Frank Smith
3. 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.
Impulsivity
Chall's Stage 4
Accuracy
Sight Words
4. 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
Phonology
Joe Torgesen
VV
Multisensory
5. 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
Phonemic/ decodable words
Battery
WIATII
Anna Gillingham
6. Test of Word Reading Efficiency. Screening test. measures an individual's ability to pronounce printed words accurately and fluently. Generates percentiles - standard scores - age equivalents - and grade equivalents.Decoding - Sight words
Three Layers of Language
MSLE
VAKT
Towre
7. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)
Pre-English
Attention
VV
Sight Words
8. 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
Linguistic Method
Morpheme
James Hinshelwood
Phonemic/ decodable words
9. Whole body learning
Kinesthetic
Reliability
ESL
Digraph
10. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.
Composite Score
Grade equivalents
Phoneme
Trigraph
11. 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
VAKT
Quadrigraph
Impulsivity
The Norman Conquest
12. 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
Syntax
Raw score
James Hinshelwood
Diphthong
13. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes
Morphology
Phonology
Cognition
Chall's Stage 2
14. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.
Standard score
Closed Syllable
Visual Processing
Diphthong
15. A word to which affixes are added. A base word can stand alone.
Base Word
Chall's Stage 2
Standardized test
Modern English
16. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.
Fluency
Age equivalent
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Diagnostic Teaching
17. 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
Tactile
Consonant Digraph
Criterion-Referenced Test
Ability
18. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.
The Norman Conquest
Great Vowel Shift
Semantics
Percentile
19. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.
Sound Symbol Association
Universal Screening
Combination
Visual Learners
20. 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)
Combination
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Phonological Awareness
Open Syllable
21. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928
Mathew Effect
Phonics
Modern English
MSLE
22. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.
ESL
Profile
IMSLEC
CTOPP
23. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.
Grade equivalents
Progress Monitoring
Phonology
Diphthong
24. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Chall's Stage 5
Impulsivity
Phonemic/ decodable words
25. State Board of Eduation
SBOE
Frank Smith
Base Word
Breve
26. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program
Grade equivalents
Accuracy
Synthetic Instruction
Cognition
27. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes
Derivative
Visual Processing
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Linguistic Method
28. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia
Standardized test
Towre
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Criterion-Referenced Test
29. English as a second language
Percentile
Modification
Derivative
ESL
30. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
Chall's Stage 5
Digraph
Multi-Sensory Approach
Anna Gillingham
31. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time
Social language
Stanine Scores
Linguistic Method
Rate
32. 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
Impulsivity
Dyslexia
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Reliability
33. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.
Percentile
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Curriculum referenced tests
Standardized test
34. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others
Battery
Expressive language
Visual Learners
Chall's Stage 2
35. 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
Tilde
Cedilla
Pre-English
Vr
36. 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
[-'le
Closed Syllable
Pre-English
Kinesthetic
37. 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
Phonics approach
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Syllable
Chall's Stage 3
38. Making sense of what we read. Comprehension is dependent on good word recognition - fluency - vocabulary - worldly knowledge - and language ability.
Cognitive Assessment
Phonemic Awareness
Comprehension
Receptive language
39. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words
Orthography
Old English
Phonological Awareness
Linguistic Method
40. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.
Phonics
Mastery level
Consonant
Middle English
41. 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
Consonant
GORT
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
Diphthong
42. A spoken or written unit that must have a vowel sound and that may include consonants that precede or follow that vowel. Syllables are units of sound made by one impulse of voice.
Syllable
Middle English
Derivative
Receptive language
43. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction
Texas Education Code 28.06
Battery
Norm-referenced tests
Attention
44. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children
Age equivalent
Frank Smith
Matthew Effect
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
45. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
Fluency
V-e
Consonant Digraph
Joe Torgesen
46. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Digraph
Affix
Phonemic/ decodable words
47. 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.
Cognitive Assessment
Combination
Top-down Reading Approach
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
48. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.
Multisensory
Academic Achievement Tests
Matthew Effect
Social language
49. 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 -
Middle English
Phonemic/ decodable words
Macron
CTOPP
50. 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.
Modification
Breve
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'