CALT ALTA Exam Questions with Correct Answers

CALT ALTA Exam Questions with Correct Answers1. decoding: recognition of the visual symbol, symbol/sound correspondence, and blending sounds into a word are all part of2. Pre-Reading Stage: language appreciation, awareness of printed words, mastery of alphabet and simple words 3. Greek elements: eu, chloro 4. Current Research on the brain and developmental dyslexia: A "glitch" may have taken place during fetal development 5. Dyslexia and Social Development: May see: a lack of good judgement, the inability to stick with a game, erratic emotional behavior 6. Grade equivalent scores: Not a dependable representation of progress 7. Woodcock Johnson Psycho-Education Battery: a cognitive/ norm referenced test 8. synthetic instruction: Teaching phonics by taking sounds and blending them together into words. 9. analytic instruction: Teaching phonics by taking words and breaking them into parts. Whole to part approach. 10. linguistics: Study of production, properties, structure, meaning and or use of language. 11. % of students with specific learning disabilities receiving special education services that have a deficit in reading: 70-80% 12. According to the National Reading Panel (2000) this represents the strongest indication of a reading disability: a deficit in phonology 13. Section 504 and IDEA: A person who has, has a history of having, or is regarded as having an impairment that significantly limits one or more of life's major functions receives benefits under 14. Appropriate education under Section 504 may include: regular classroom, regular classroom with accommodations, or special education and related services 15. ALTA Code of Ethics and IMSLEC: provide reasonable expectations of student outcomes to parents and students 16. Recommendations for private students: give parents documentation of the services received from you and discuss gradual transition into the classroom 17. Professional Communication: Personal pronouns are unprofessional 18. ADHD: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder A+ 2022/2023 CALT ALTA Exam Questions with Correct Answers 2 / 25 19. ALTA: Academic Language Therapy Association 20. ESL: English as a Second Language 21. IDEA: Individuals with Disabilities Education Act 22. IEP: Individualized Education Plan 23. IMSLEC: International Multi-sensory Structured Education Council 24. MSL: Multisensory Structured Language 25. MSLE: Multisensory Structured Language Education 26. NICHD: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development 27. VAKT: Visual-Auditory-Kinesthetic/Tactile 28. WRAT: Wide Range Achievement Test 29. swing up, stop: i,t,p,u,w,j,r,s 30. push up and over: m,n,v,x,y,z 31. curve under, over, stop: a, ca, d,g,o,q 32. curve way up, loop left: b,f,h,k,l,e 33. grapheme: single letters or groups of letter groups that represent specific phonemes or speech sounds 34. Closed syllable: napkin, button 35. Open syllable: lilac, tulip 36. Vowel- consonant e: shake, shine 37. Vowel pair: bread, nail 38. Vowel-r: doctor, dollar 39. Final Stable: cable, sandle,stle 40. Inflectional suffixes: when added to a base word change the number, tense, voice, mood, or comparison. -s, -er (more than), -ed, -est -ing 41. Derivational suffixes are: added to a base word or root and change the part of speech or the function of the base word. -less, -ful, -ness, - cian 42. Doubling rule: one vowel, one consonant, one accent, and a vowel suffix is being added A+ 2022/2023 CALT ALTA Exam Questions with Correct Answers 3 / 25 43. Silent e situations: to make a vowel long, to make a c or g soft, part of consonant le, added when the word ends in a final v 44. norm-referenced test: assessment that measures performance in relation to a norm cohort or group 45. criterion referenced test: assessment that measures knowledge attained and knowledge yet to be acquired in a domain 46. curriculum-referenced test: assessment that measures knowledge that has been taught 47. screening: brief assessment that identifies students who may need additional or alternate forms of instruction 48. progress monitoring: periodic assessment that measures progress in response to specific intstruction 49. diagnostic measure: assessment that provides a detailed analysis of a student's strengths and weakenesses 50. outcome measure: assessment that classifies a student in terms of achievement or improvement of grade-level performance 51. formal assessment: standardized assessment that must be administered and scored according to prescribed procedures 52. informal assessment: assessments that are not standardized 53. pseudowords: nonsense words that are phonetically regular 54. formative data: data collected that provides information about knowledge to be applied to short-term goals 55. summative data: data collected that provides information about knowledge to be applied for long-term comprehensive goals 56. DIBELS: Dynamic Indicators of Basic Literacy Skills, K-3, early literacy skills 57. TPRI: Texas Primary Reading Inventory, starts in K and includes inventories through 3rd grade. focuses on age appropriate skills. 58. PALS: Phonological Awareness Literacy Screening, for PK-3rd, allows teachers to find weaknesses 59. qualitative research: research that collects data through various kinds of observations 60. quantitative research: research in which results are based on a large sample that is representative of