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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.






2. 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)






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






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






5. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment






6. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.






7. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.






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






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






10. 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






11. Academic Language Therapy Association






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






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






14. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






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






16. His research in the field of reading was fundamental to the emergence of today's scientific consensus about what reading is - how it works and what it does for the mind.






17. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.






18. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children






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

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






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






22. 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






23. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek






24. Wide Range Achievement Test






25. A type of test score that is calculated based on the age that an average person earns a given score within the tested population.






26. Attempt - Failure - Frustration - Avoidance - Lack of Practice - No improvement - Loss of esteem - loss of motivation = THIS






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






28. Closed syllable






29. Ability to understand and express spoken language






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

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31. 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






32. A class of open speech sounds produced by the easy passage of air through a relatively open vocal tract. A - E - I - O - U






33. Feeling through fingertips






34. Multisensory Structured Language Education






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






36. 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






37. 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






38. English as a second language






39. 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.






40. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time






41. Effective for special needs - Uses all possible senses - tracing - saying - listening - looking - Typically called VAKT - Visual - Auditory - Kinesthetic - Tactile - Can be used with either Phonics or Whole Language






42. 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






43. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound






44. Individual Educational Plan






45. State Board of Education Rule - District Board of Trustees must make sure dyslexia procedures are given to the district. - District must use SBOE approved strategies for screening and treating dyslexia






46. Standards of Personal Conduct - Standards of Professional Conduct - Conflict of Interest - Confidentiality






47. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships

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48. 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.






49. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes






50. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies