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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. The term is also used for the language now called Old English - spoken and written by the ________ and their descendants in much of what is now England and some of southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century.
Anglo Saxon
Accommodation
Greek layer of language
Diagnostic tests
2. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"
Linguistic Method
Direct Instruction
Chall's Stage 1
Adolf Kusmaul
3. 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.
Standard Scores
Syllable Instruction
Multisensory
Consonant
4. 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.
SBOE
Social language
V-e
Syllable
5. 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
6. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.
Simultaneous teaching
RTI
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Diphthong
7. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia
Phonics approach
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Consonant Digraph
Curriculum referenced tests
8. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.
Accuracy
Keith Stanovich
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Digraph
9. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928
Modern English
Universal Screening
The Norman Conquest
Texas Education Code 38.003
10. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)
Achievement test
Visual Learners
Open Syllable
Criterion-Referenced Test
11. 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
Percentile/ percentile rank
Profile
Diphthong
Whole Language
12. 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
Old English
Funding
Chall's Stage 3
Standardized test
13. Federal Law. Nondiscrimination on the basis of handicap in programs receiving federal $$ - Civil Rights Law - to protect people with disabilities by allowing full participation in the workplace.
Dyslexia
Phonological Awareness
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
ESL
14. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view
15. Multisensory Structured Language Education
V >
Phonics
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
MSLE
16. 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.
Reading Comprehension Support
Sight Words
Derivative
VAKT
17. 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.
Quadrigraph
Syllable
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Universal Screening
18. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words
Phoneme
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Semantics
Academic Achievement Tests
19. A score that combines several scores according to a specified formula.
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Base Word
Composite Score
20. 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
Standard Scores
Anna Gillingham
Top-down Reading Approach
Towre
21. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children
Phonics
Joe Torgesen
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Derived Score
22. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet
Old English
Syntax
Sight Words
Letter naming Chart
23. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test
Accuracy
Vowel
WIATII
Phonics approach
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
Impulsivity
Auditory Processing
Stanine Scores
Components of Reading Instruction
25. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.
Modification
Diagnostic tests
Percentile/ percentile rank
SBOE
26. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes
GORT
V >
Raw score
Derivative
27. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.
Reliability
Phoneme
Standard Scores
Auditory Learners
28. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.
Tilde
Syllable Instruction
MSLE
Joe Torgesen
29. Individual Educational Plan
Rehabilitation Act of 1973/504
Chall's Stage 5
IEP
Chall's Stage 4
30. 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
Affix
Phonology
Achievement test
Chall's Stage 3
31. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents
Phonemic Awareness
Ability
Anglo Saxon
CTOPP
32. 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
Simultaneous teaching
Combination
Attention
33. Reading for Learning "the New" - Expand vocabularies - build background and world knowledge - develop strategic habits
34. 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.
Breve
Ability
Reading Comprehension Support
Pre-English
35. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships
36. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Social language
Percentile
37. 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.
Composite Score
Components of Reading Instruction
MSLE
Cognition
38. 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.
Consonant
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
IDEA
Diagnostic tests
39. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.
WIATII
Closed Syllable
Greek layer of language
VAKT
40. Wide Range Achievement Test
WRAT
Syllable
Three Layers of Language
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
41. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.
Chall's Stage 0
VV
Six basic types of syllables
Phonemic/ decodable words
42. 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.
Accommodation
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Battery
Whole Language
43. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Chall's Stage 0
NICHD
Samuel T. Orton
Accommodation
44. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)
Battery
Reading Comprehension Support
VV
Samuel T. Orton
45. 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
Chall's Stage 4
Kinesthetic
Dyslexia
Criterion-Referenced Test
46. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction
VC
Diphthong
Whole Language
Texas Education Code 28.06
47. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.
Vr
Derivative
Academic Achievement Tests
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
48. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.
Stanine Scores
Diphthong
Anna Gillingham
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
49. Tests used to identify the nature and source of an individual's educational - psychological - or medical difficulties or disabilities in order to facilitate correction or remediation.
SBOE
Old English
Diagnostic tests
Quadrigraph
50. Response to Intervention - a multi-step or tiered approach to providing services and interventions at increasing intensity to students or an entire class.
RTI
Base Word
Adolf Kusmaul
Sound Symbol Association