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ALTA Certification Academic Language Therapy
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1. The ability to segment words into their component phonemes. Is an important aspect of phonological awareness
Adolf Kusmaul
Accuracy
Phonemic Awareness
Diphthong
2. Explicitly teaches strategies and techniques for studying texts and acquiring meaning
Reading Comprehension Support
Reliability
Accent
Bottom-up Reading Approachs
3. Closed syllable - open syllable - vowel- consonant-e - r controlled syllable - vowel team - final stable syllable
Whole Language
Standard score
Fluency
Six basic types of syllables
4. Reading for Learning "the New" - Expand vocabularies - build background and world knowledge - develop strategic habits
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5. Shakespeare - Samuel Johnson - first comprehensive dictionary of English - Noah Webster - first dictionary of American English - Oxford Dictionary published in full 1928
Modern English
Multisensory
Impulsivity
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
6. 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.
Anglo Saxon
Consonant
Consonant Digraph
Towre
7. The knowledge of the various sounds in the English language and their correspondence to the letter or letters that represent those sounds.
Syntax
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Top-down Reading Approach
Sound Symbol Association
8. Given normal hearing - the ability to understand spoken language in a meaningful way.
Impulsivity
Texas Education Code 38.003
Auditory Processing
Reliability
9. 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.
VAKT
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Accent
Composite Score
10. 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
ESL
Cognitive Assessment
Joe Torgesen
Cedilla
11. Comprehensive end-of-year exams - reflecting the specific subject matter outlines in the curriculum.
Curriculum referenced tests
Grade equivalents
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
MSLE
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
Percentile/ percentile rank
Phonemic Awareness
Chall's Stage 1
VV
13. 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
Mathew Effect
Anna Gillingham
Battery
Latin layer of language
14. Anglo-Saxon - Latin - Greek
V >
Latin layer of language
Three Layers of Language
Old English
15. Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing. Screening test. test phonological awareness - phonological memory - rapid naming...norms given in Percentiles - Standard Scores - Age and Grade Equivalents
Dyslexia
CTOPP
Vowel Digraph
Modern English
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
James Hinshelwood
Tactile/Kinesthetic Learners
Six basic types of syllables
Vowel
17. State Law - Requires administration of reading instruments to diagnose reading problems. Each district does - has to notify parents and provide instruction
Chall's Stage 3
Rate
Texas Education Code 28.06
Middle English
18. 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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19. 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
Vowel Digraph
Syllable
Attention
Auditory Learners
20. Academic Language Therapy Association
Direct Instruction
ALTA
Auditory Learners
IMSLEC
21. State Board of Eduation
Language Experience called 'Whole Language'
Direct Instruction
SBOE
Phoneme
22. 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.
Old English
Samuel T. Orton
Social language
Breve
23. Selective focus on what is important while screening out distractions.
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Reliability
ADHD
Attention
24. Multiple Viewpoints - Analyze text critically - understand multiple point of view
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25. 1896 - wrote first article in medical literature on "word blindness" in children
Dr. W. Pringle Morgan
Base Word
Middle English
Profile
26. Present the whole and teaches how this can be broken down into component parts.
Norm-Referenced Test
4 Principles of ALTA Code of Ethics
Semantics
Analytic
27. A letter or a group of letters attached to the beginning or ending of a base word or root that creates a derivative with a meaning or grammatical form that is different that the base word or root.
Chall's Stage 4
MSL
Affix
Vowel Digraph
28. Words used in more formal settings - Often found in literature - science - social studies in upper elem. texts. Longer than words of Anglo-Saxon Origin.
Universal Screening
Norm-referenced tests
Latin layer of language
Suffix
29. 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.
Kenneth and Yetta Goodman
Vowel Digraph
Cognition
Progress Monitoring
30. Feeling through fingertips
Dr. Rudolf Berlin
Tactile
MSLE
Open Syllable
31. Study of sounds and how the work within their environment
Phonology
Visual Learners
ALTA
Standard score
32. 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
Mathew Effect
Phonemic/ decodable words
Funding
Anna Gillingham
33. 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.
Texas Education Code 28.06
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
ALTA
GORT
34. 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
Texas Administrative Code 74.28
Whole Language
Grade equivalents
Mastery level
35. A graphic compilation of the performance of an individual on a series of assessments.
Mastery level
Profile
Norm-Referenced Test
Battery
36. Behaving without thinking about possible consequences. May act or speak without first thinking about how their behavior might make other people react of feel
VAKT
Impulsivity
Semantics
Profile
37. Making sense of what we read. Comprehension is dependent on good word recognition - fluency - vocabulary - worldly knowledge - and language ability.
Academic Achievement Tests
Accommodation
Comprehension
Phonemic/ decodable words
38. A step taken by school personnel to determine which students are at risk for not meeting grade level standards.
Auditory Learners
James Hinshelwood
Universal Screening
SBOE
39. Alphabetic principle" and its relationship to phonemic awareness and phonological awareness in reading
Modern English
Cognitive Assessment
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Six basic types of syllables
40. The writing system of a language. Correct or standardized spelling according to established usage.
Consonant Digraph
Orthography
Macron
Syllable Instruction
41. Initial Reading - Letters represent sounds - sound-spelling relationships
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42. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
Impulsivity
Multisensory
NICHD
Vowel
43. 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
Reliability
Dyslexia
Diphthong
Social language
44. Phonemic Awareness - Phonics - Vocabulary Development - Reading Fluency - including oral reading skills - Reading Comprehension Strategies
Components of Reading Instruction
Base Word
Chall's Stage 0
Samuel T. Orton
45. 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
Phonics approach
Social and emotional problems related to dyslexia
Consonant Digraph
Criterion referenced tests
46. Understanding of the internal linguistic structure of words
Macron
Modification
Social language
Phonological Awareness
47. 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.
Criterion-Referenced Test
Profile
Sound Symbols Association is taught to mastery in two directions...
Grade equivalents
48. 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.
Diagnostic Teaching
Greek layer of language
Systematic and Cumulative Instruction
James Hinshelwood
49. 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.
Raw score
Academic Achievement Tests
Joe Torgesen
Sight Words
50. The ability to translate print to speech with rapidity and automaticity that allows the reader to focus on meaning.
Receptive language
Fluency
Alvin and Isabel Liberman
Consonant Digraph