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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. 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.






2. Alphabetic principle" and its relationship to phonemic awareness and phonological awareness in reading






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






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






5. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek






6. Multisensory Structured Language






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






8. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.






9. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.






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






11. 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.






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

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






14. 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.






15. 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






16. Statistical measure of the degree of dispersion in distribution of scores. Measures spread of a set of data around mean of the data. The more widely the values are spread out - the larger the standard deviation.






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






18. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.

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19. 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






20. Selective focus on what is important while screening out distractions.






21. Individual Educational Plan






22. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






23. 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






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






25. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






26. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928






27. 1904 - reported 2 cases of "congenital word blindness" - called for schools to establish procedures for screening as well as appropriate teaching of those that were identified with congenital word-blindness






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






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






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






31. Gray Oral Reading Test-Fourth Edition Screening test. Provides an efficient and objective measure of growth in oral reading and an aid in the diagnosis of oral reading difficulties Standard Scores - Percentile Ranks - Grade Equivalents - Age Equivale






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






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






34. A test in which the results can be used to determine a student's progress toward mastery of a content area. performance is compared to an expected level of mastery in a content area rather that to other student's scores. Such tests usually include qu






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






36. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.






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






38. 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.






39. 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






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






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






42. 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






43. 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






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






45. 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.






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






47. 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






48. The flat diacritical mark above a vowel in a send picture or phonic/dictionary notation that indicates a long sound.






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






50. 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