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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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






2. English as a second language






3. 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






4. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.






5. 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






6. Multisensory Structured Language Education






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






8. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.






9. 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.






10. 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






11. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.






12. 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 -






13. State Board of Eduation






14. 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.






15. One of a class of speech sounds in which sound moving through the vocal tract is constricted or obstructed by the lips - tongue or teeth during articulation.






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






17. Participate in classroom discussions - make speeches/presentations - use tape records during lectures - read text out loud - create musical jingles - create mnemonics to aid memorization - discuss ideas verbally






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






19. 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.






20. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






21. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.






22. 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.






23. Given normal vision - the ability to recognize and interpret information taken in with the eye.






24. 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


25. 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






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






27. 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






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






29. Individual Educational Plan






30. 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






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






32. A standardized test designed to efficiently measure the amount of knowledge and/or skill a person has acquired - usually as a result of classroom instruction. Such testing produces a statistical profile used as a measurement to evaluate student learn






33. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek






34. 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.






35. A quick probe that is done frequently in order to make instructional changes in a timely fashion.






36. 1925 - Coined the term "strephosymbolia" which means twisted symbols; Pathologist - neurologist and psychitrist in the US - studied with Dr. Alzheimer in Germany - work influenced by James Hinshelwood






37. 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






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






39. 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






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


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






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.






43. Was a major change in the pronunciation of the English language that took place in England between 1350 and 1500.[1] This was first studied by Otto Jespersen (1860-1943) - a Danish linguist and Anglicist - who coined the term. Because English spellin






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






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


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






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






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






49. International Multisensory Structured Education Council






50. 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.