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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children






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






3. 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






4. Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder






5. 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.






6. 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.






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

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8. Pre-reading - Oral Language Development

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






10. 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.






11. Teutonic invasion and settlement - The Christianizing of Britain - The creation of a national English culture - Danish-English warfare - Political adjustment and cultural assimilation and the decline of Old English as a result of The Norman Conquest.






12. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.






13. Construction and Reconstruction - Construct understanding based on analysis and synthesis.

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






15. 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






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






17. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words






18. 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






19. 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






20. Refers tot he measurement consistency of a test






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. Instruction must include the six basic types of these and the division rules.






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






24. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile






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






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






27. Vowel team syllable (digraph - dipthong)






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

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29. Scores expressed in their original form without statistical treatment - such as the number of correct answers on a test.






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






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






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






33. The number of words a student can read correctly in a given period of time.






34. The term is also used for the language now called Old English - spoken and written by the ________ and their descendants in much of what is now England and some of southeastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century.






35. 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 -






36. Final stable syllable

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37. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"






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






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






40. An ability test is designed to measure either your general intelligence or your mental aptitude in a particular area. For example






41. 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.






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

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43. A word made from a base word by the addition of one or more affixes






44. 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






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






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






47. The percentage is defined to include scores in a specified distribution that fall below the point at which a given score lies.






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






49. Ability to understand and express spoken language






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