ALTA Study Guide Questions And Answers
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Dyslexia: - ANSWER An unexpected written language disorder that is
neurological in origin.
Difficulties with:
Accurate/fluent word recognition
Spelling
Decoding abilities
Misread common words, choppy, hesitant
Normal intellect
Core deficit- Phonological Awareness
Dysgraphia- - ANSWER difficulty or poor handwriting
Strephosymbolia- - ANSWER Twisted symbols, 1st term used to describe
dyslexia coined by S. Orton
Phonetics- - ANSWER the study of speech sounds
Phonological Awareness- - ANSWER ability to focus on units of sounds in
spoken language and sentence/words/syllable/phoneme levels
Phonemic Awareness- - ANSWER awareness of speech sounds/phonemes in
spoken words
, CALT
Phonics- - ANSWER instruction that connects sounds -> letters
Phonology- - ANSWER rules that determine how sounds are used in spoken
language
Alphabetic Principle- - ANSWER understanding that spoken sounds are
represented in print by written letters *Cox-Childs*
Phoneme- - ANSWER smallest unit of sound
Fluency- - ANSWER reading with rapidity and automaticity
Prosody- - ANSWER rhythmic flow of oral reading
Pragmatics- - ANSWER set of rules that dictate communicative behavior- rules
we communicate by
Syntax- - ANSWER sentence structure ***Grammar
Semantics- - ANSWER word meaning
Grapheme- - ANSWER a letter or cluster of letters that represent a single
speech sound
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