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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program
Reliability
Synthetic Instruction
Three Layers of Language
Vr
2. International Multisensory Structured Education Council
Phonological Awareness
IMSLEC
Texas Education Code 28.06
Three Layers of Language
3. 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
Towre
Mastery level
Diagnostic tests
CTOPP
4. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
Quadrigraph
Digraph
Standardized test
ADHD
5. Feeling through fingertips
Tactile
Diagnostic tests
Cognition
Auditory Learners
6. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Impulsivity
Sound Symbol Association
Visual Processing
7. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek
Three Layers of Language
Diagnostic Teaching
Pre-English
Anglo Saxon
8. A syllable ending with a long vowel sound. (labor - freedom)
Open Syllable
Chall's Stage 5
Texas Education Code 28.06
Grapheme
9. Students proceed trough predictable stages of learning to reading.
10. A test in which a student's performance is compared to that of a norm group. Often used to measure and compare students - schools - districts and states.
Mastery level
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Norm-referenced tests
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
11. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.
Oral Language
Phonological Awareness
Modification
Impulsivity
12. 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
Multisensory
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Percentile/ percentile rank
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
13. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)
Percentile/ percentile rank
Adolf Kusmaul
Trigraph
Chall's Stage 0
14. 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
Standard deviation
ALTA
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Dyslexia
15. 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
Diphthong
Anglo Saxon
Chall's Stage 0
Analytic
16. Take frequent study breaks - move around to learn new things - work at a standing position - chew gum while standing - listen to music while studying - skim material first then read in detail
WRAT
Consonant
Accent
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
17. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development
18. 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
Cognition
Modification
Derivative
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
19. 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
Phonological Awareness
Visual Learners
Simultaneous teaching
Macron
20. 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.
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Percentile
Chall's Stage 0
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
21. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Reading Comprehension Support
Norm-Referenced Test
ADHD
22. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.
Syllable Instruction
Multi-Sensory Approach
Towre
Base Word
23. Vowel - consonant - e syllable
Reading Comprehension Support
Cognitive Assessment
V-e
Tactile
24. 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
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Anna Gillingham
VV
Macron
25. A way of describing - in standard deviation units - a raw score's distance from its distribution means.
Standard score
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
Texas Education Code 28.06
Derived Score
26. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Accuracy
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
27. 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.
Great Vowel Shift
Sight Words
Auditory Processing
Norm-referenced tests
28. 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
WRAT
Orthography
Whole Language
Cedilla
29. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.
Morpheme
Samuel T. Orton
Frank Smith
Profile
30. r-controlled syllable
Chall's Stage 3
Cedilla
Vr
Chall's Stage 1
31. Are standardized and measure your progress and achievements as a student.
Academic Achievement Tests
Norm-referenced tests
Vr
VC
32. 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
Semantics
GORT
Consonant Digraph
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
33. Academic Language Therapy Association
ALTA
Mathew Effect
Universal Screening
Diphthong
34. 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
Achievement test
Curriculum referenced tests
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
Morphology
35. 1925 - Coined the term "strephosymbolia" which means twisted symbols; Pathologist - neurologist and psychitrist in the US - studied with Dr. Alzheimer in Germany - work influenced by James Hinshelwood
Samuel T. Orton
Profile
Standard score
Norm-referenced tests
36. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.
37. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction
ADHD
Standard score
Texas Education Code 28.06
Derived Score
38. 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
Components of Reading Instruction
Modification
Breve
Multi-Sensory Approach
39. Wide Range Achievement Test
Simultaneous teaching
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Ability
WRAT
40. Multisensory Structured Language Education
MSL
Ability
MSLE
Impulsivity
41. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability
5 disorders the related to dyslexia
Letter naming Chart
Criterion referenced tests
Norm-Referenced Test
42. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies
Criterion referenced tests
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Texas Education Code 38.003
Components of Reading Instruction
43. 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.
Syllable
Adolf Kusmaul
Battery
Letter naming Chart
44. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.
Greek layer of language
Vowel
Analytic
Oral Language
45. 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
James Hinshelwood
Morphology
[-'le
ALTA
46. 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.
IEP
Phonemic Awareness
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Consonant
47. 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.
Texas Education Code 28.06
VC
Progress Monitoring
Top-down Reading Approach
48. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes
Texas Education Code 28.06
V-e
Morphology
VC
49. Teaching that uses all learning pathways in the brain (VAK-T) simultaneously in order to enhance memory and learning.
Tilde
Simultaneous teaching
Consonant
MSL
50. Set of principles that dictate the sequence and function of words in a sentence in order to convey meaning - must include grammar - sentence types - and mechanics of language
Norm-Referenced Test
Syntax
Grapheme
Standardized test