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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. Comprehensive end-of-year exams - reflecting the specific subject matter outlines in the curriculum.






2. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words






3. 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.






4. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.






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






6. Whole language. Founder of Whole language concept






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

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8. 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

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9. 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






10. 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






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






12. 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.






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






14. 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.






15. 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






16. 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






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






18. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia






19. The ability to organize thoughts and express them verbally to convey meaning to others






20. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel






21. 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






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

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23. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound






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






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

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






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






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






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






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






31. International Multisensory Structured Education Council






32. 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






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






34. Open syllable






35. 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






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






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






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






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

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40. 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.






41. Multisensory Structured Language






42. The teacher musts be adept at individualized teaching based on continual assessment of the student's needs. Content should be mastered to a level of automaticity.






43. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.






44. 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.






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






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






47. State Board of Eduation






48. 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






49. 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






50. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.







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