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ALTA COMPETENCY EXAM WITH ALL QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS
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Affixes are prefixes or suffixes that are added to basic words. ex. unhelpfulActive learning is ANSWER learning in which the student mentally explores
for connections between new and previously known material.
Allophone is a variety of a speech sound (/t/ in top, stop, spits, and quick).
Analytic - ANSWER relating to instruction or a procedure that divides the
WHOLE into its parts. Analytic phonics divides a full word into its parts,
allowing pupils to derive the phonological correlations of the individual
orthographic patterns.
The angular gyrus is a region of the brain responsible for visual-verbal
connections.
anomaly - ANSWER irregularity; divergence from the common conception of
fitness or order
ARD - ANSWER advanced reading deck displays only the letter.
Auditory discrimination - ANSWER Required to "break the code" when
reading. It requires the ability to distinguish between speech sounds and
sequence them into meaningful words.
basic word - the simplest form of an English word; a word without any affixes,
such as spell.
ANSWER progress measurements are administered at the end of each program,
when pupils have done enough practice.
breve is a diacritical mark that signifies a short vowel sound.
, Broca's region is the posterior section of the frontal lobe responsible for
phonological processing and language semantics. This area in the front left of
the brain is responsible for EXPRESSIVE language—articulating spoken words
and processing words.
Broca's aphasia – ANSWER person cannot say the words but understands.
Cedilla is a diacritical mark (,) put below the letter c to indicate that it is
pronounced as an s.
Chameleon prefix - ANSWER a prefix whose last consonant changes depending
on the beginning letter of the root (in- changes to ir- before regular, irregular);
done for euphony.
Circumflex is a diacritical mark (^) applied above a vowel in a combination to
denote an accented syllable.
Coarticulation - ANSWER Adjacent sounds are frequently pronounced in such
a way that one phoneme appears to overlap, is altered by, or affects another.
Coarticulation is the process by which the brain arranges sequences of vowels
and consonants, combining the discrete movements required for each into a
single smooth whole. In fact, the process applies to all body movements, not
only speaking, and is a component of how humans function.
ANSWER two letters in a single syllable when one creates an unexpected sound
or stands in an unexpected order: ar, er, ir, or, ur, qu, wh.
Co-morbidity - ANSWER More than one weakness, such as dysgraphia/reading
comprehension disorder, phonological processing speed, or written expression.
ANSWER: a class of speaking sounds having limited or impeded airflow.
decoding - ANSWER reading, combining letters to read
A derivation is a word formed by adding a suffix or prefix to another word.
Diacritical marks - ANSWER a dictionary mark that indicates pronunciation
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