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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. 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
VV
Criterion-Referenced Test
Kinesthetic
Great Vowel Shift
2. Whole language - Drop Everythng and read - evaluation through miscues - founds of whole language
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Social language
Macron
Semantics
3. 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
Quadrigraph
Pre-English
Morpheme
4. Paired association between letters and letter sounds; an approach to teaching of reading and spelling that emphasizes sound-symbol relationships - especially in early instruction.
Greek layer of language
Phonics approach
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
Phonics
5. 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
Whole Language
Chall's Stage 0
Chall's Stage 3
Samuel T. Orton
6. State Board of Eduation
SBOE
Tactile
The Norman Conquest
Vowel Digraph
7. Changes in curriculum - supplementary aides or equipment - and provision of specialized facilities that allow students to participate in educational environment to fullest extent possible.
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
GORT
MSL
Modification
8. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.
Comprehension
Cognitive Assessment
Orthography
Chall's Stage 5
9. 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.
Frank Smith
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Linguistic Method
Prefix
10. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents
Phonics
Greek layer of language
Linguistic Method
CTOPP
11. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
Visual Learners
Joe Torgesen
Breve
ADHD
12. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes
Derivative
Oral Language
GORT
Rate
13. Inferential learning of a concept cannot be take for granted! Never assume!
Prefix
Direct Instruction
Anna Gillingham
Digraph
14. Stress or emphasis on one syllable in a word or on one or more words in a phrase or sentence. The accented part is spoken louder - longer - and/or in a higher tone. The speaker's mouth opens wider while saying an accented syllable.
Accent
Samuel T. Orton
Morphology
Cognition
15. A single functioning or signaling unit of our word patterns. The separate sound units of spoken words.
Phoneme
Simultaneous teaching
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Quadrigraph
16. 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
Three Layers of Language
Base Word
Multi-Sensory Approach
Synthetic Instruction
17. International Multisensory Structured Education Council
IMSLEC
Macron
Affix
Chall's Stage 3
18. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.
Profile
Vr
Phoneme
Accuracy
19. Alphabetic principle" and its relationship to phonemic awareness and phonological awareness in reading
Phonemic/ decodable words
RTI
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
20. Two adjacent letters repressing a single consonant sound
Receptive language
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
Consonant Digraph
21. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.
GORT
V-e
Multisensory
Stanine Scores
22. Edward III - English again becomes the official language of the state -Chaucer - Canterbury Tales - English borrows from Latin and Greek languages - Anglo-French compounds appear (gentlewomen - gentlemen - faithful - etc) - Latin layer of language -
Quadrigraph
Middle English
Fluency
Raw score
23. A syllable ending with one or more consonants. The vowel is usually short.
Percentile
Raw score
Closed Syllable
Tilde
24. An objective test that is given and scored in a uniform manner. Scores are often norm-referenced. For example SAT
RTI
Standardized test
Reliability
MSL
25. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet
Joe Torgesen
Universal Screening
Suffix
Letter naming Chart
26. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning
Reliability
Norm-referenced tests
Multisensory
Reading Comprehension Support
27. 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
Tilde
Anglo Saxon
Suffix
RTI
28. Present the parts of the language and then teaches how the parts work together to make a whole. Part of a MSLE Program
Synthetic Instruction
Base Word
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Chall's Stage 2
29. 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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30. 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
Standardized test
Stanine Scores
Direct Instruction
Visual Learners
31. An ability test is designed to measure either your general intelligence or your mental aptitude in a particular area. For example
Ability
Matthew Effect
Reliability
Percentile
32. 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.
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Standard Scores
Three Layers of Language
33. 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)
WIATII
Texas Education Code 28.06
Combination
Phonological Awareness
34. Normalized standard scores with a range of 1 to 9. They are status score within a particulur norm group.
VC
Stanine Scores
Breve
Ability
35. A significant unit of visual shape. We use the visual shape as to cover not only writing - but also any other shape perceived by the eye which is a visible representation of a unit of speech. A single graphic letter or letter cluster which represents
Matthew Effect
Anglo-Saxon layer of language
Grapheme
RTI
36. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.
MSLE
Vowel
Standardized test
Universal Screening
37. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)
MSL
Quadrigraph
Trigraph
Morphology
38. 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.
Funding
Suffix
Percentile
Top-down Reading Approach
39. 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
Funding
The Norman Conquest
Cognitive Assessment
Linguistic Method
40. 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.
Multisensory
Consonant
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Sight Words
41. 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
Greek layer of language
Adolf Kusmaul
VAKT
Criterion-Referenced Test
42. Individuals with a Disabilities Act
IDEA
Greek layer of language
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
43. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment
Auditory Learners
Expressive language
Phonology
ESL
44. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view
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45. 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
Criterion referenced tests
Old English
Phonological Awareness
Semantics
46. The number of words which a reader can translate meaningfully in a given period of time
CTOPP
Rate
Keith Stanovich
NICHD
47. 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.
IDEA
Visual Processing
Chall's Six Stages of Reading
Norm-referenced tests
48. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development
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49. Words that are able to be broken apart by the position of the vowels and consonants in order to pronounce.
Phonemic/ decodable words
Visual Learners
Percentile/ percentile rank
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
50. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Consonant Digraph
Texas Education Code 38.003
Latin layer of language