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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy

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1. English as a second language






2. Ability to think reason and solve problems. Skills are usually measured by an individual test of intelligence/IQ test. Requires being able to generalize from past experience and use that knowledge to respond to new situations.






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






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






5. Four adjacent letters representing one sound (eigh)






6. The curved diacritical mark above a vowel in a sound picture or phonic/dictionary symbol notation that indicates a short sound in a closed syllable in which at least one consonant comes after the vowel in the same syllable.






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






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






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






10. Participate in classroom discussions - make speeches/presentations - use tape records during lectures - read text out loud - create musical jingles - create mnemonics to aid memorization - discuss ideas verbally






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






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






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






14. A base word or meaningful unit in there terminology of structural linguistics.






15. International Multisensory Structured Education Council






16. Closed syllable






17. 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.






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






19. 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






20. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.






21. An affix attached to the beginning of a word that changes the meaning of that word.






22. Statistical measure of the degree of dispersion in distribution of scores. Measures spread of a set of data around mean of the data. The more widely the values are spread out - the larger the standard deviation.






23. The ancient Britons (Celts) conquered by Caesar in 54 c.e. - Celtic and Latin languages co-exist - Teutonic tribes (Jutes - Angles and Saxons invade) - Anglo-Saxon layer of language






24. To adjacent letters representing a single vowel sound






25. 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.






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






27. 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






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






29. 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.






30. Whole body learning






31. 1877 - first to use the term "word-blindness"






32. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment






33. Study of how morphemes are combined into words - must include study of base words - roots - and affixes






34. Proceeds from the part to the whole.Reading is driven by the text. Emphasizes the written or printed text. Flesch - Gough - LaBerge and Samuels.






35. 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.






36. 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.






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






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






39. 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)






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.






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






42. Federal Law. Nondiscrimination on the basis of handicap in programs receiving federal $$ - Civil Rights Law - to protect people with disabilities by allowing full participation in the workplace.






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






44. Multisensory Structured Language Education






45. 1887 - ophthalmologist - introduced the term dyslexia






46. Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile






47. Three adjacent letters which represent one speech sound (tch)






48. 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






49. 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






50. 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







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