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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. Scientific terminology and often appear in science texts - Greek roots are often combining forms and compound to form words.






2. 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.






3. Wechsler Individual Achievement Test






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






5. 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






6. 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.






7. Closed syllable






8. 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






9. 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






10. 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.






11. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children






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






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






14. English as a second language






15. Taught visual to auditory - Taught auditory to visual - Students should also master blending of sounds into words and as well segmenting whole words into individual sounds.






16. Vocabulary stressed the events of daily life - Common - everyday - down to earth words - Most are one syllable words






17. Individual Educational Plan






18. 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






19. 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.






20. International Multisensory Structured Education Council






21. A score to which raw scores are converted by numerical transformation ( conversion of raw scores to percentile ranks or standard scores)






22. Children may be physical and socially immature - may be awkward in social situations - may have difficulty reading social cues - may have trouble finding the right words - stammering. - may feel anxious in school






23. 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.






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






25. 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






26. 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






27. 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






28. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test






29. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program






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






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






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






33. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia






34. 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.






35. 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






36. 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






37. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability






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






39. 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






40. Use - pictures - charts - maps - graphs - etc...clear view of teacher - color to highlight important text - ask teacher to provide handouts - illustrate ideas as pictures before writing them down - use multi media






41. Multisensory Structured Language Education






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






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






44. 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






45. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept






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






47. Academic Language Therapy Association






48. Multisensory Structured Language






49. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development






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

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