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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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






2. Paired association between letters and letter sounds; an approach to teaching of reading and spelling that emphasizes sound-symbol relationships - especially in early instruction.






3. 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.






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






5. Developmental Auditory Impercepion - Dysphasia - Specific Developmental Dyslexia - Developmental Dysgraphia - Developmental Spelling Disability






6. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek






7. Individuals with a Disabilities Act






8. 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






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






10. Any learning activity that includes 2 or more sensory modalities simultaneously to take in or express information.






11. Final stable syllable

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12. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia






13. 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






14. Involve at least two people. It includes the ability to maintain eye contact - understand body language of others - take turns in a conversation - stick to the subject - and use oral language appropriate for the situation.






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






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






17. 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






18. 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






19. 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.






20. State Board of Eduation






21. 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.






22. A student with mastery can utilize the information successfully - but may struggle or need to call upon learning strategies to do so.






23. 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)






24. International Multisensory Structured Education Council






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






26. Making sense of what we read. Comprehension is dependent on good word recognition - fluency - vocabulary - worldly knowledge - and language ability.






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






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






29. 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






30. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents






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






32. 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.






33. 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.






34. 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






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






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

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

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39. 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






40. A morpheme attached to the end of a word that creates a word with a different form or use. Suffixes include inflected forms indicating tense - number - person and comparatives.






41. A districts dyslexia program is considered part of the basic - required curriculum. Therefore - state compensatory education funds can only be used to provide programs - projects - activities - and materials that supplement that district's regular dy






42. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






43. Aspect of language concerned with meaning. Curriculum should include comprehension of written language.






44. Screening test. Elementary age only. Asks test taker to name the letters of the alphabet






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






46. Most soundly supported by research for effective instruction in beginning reading - Must be explicitly taught - Must be systematically organized and sequenced - Must include learning how to blend sounds together






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






48. 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






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






50. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder