ALTA Competency Exam 2025 Questions And
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affix - ANSWER prefix or suffix added to a base word. ex. unhelpful
active learning - ANSWER learning in which the learner mentally searches for
connections between new and already known information
allophone - ANSWER a variation of a speech sound (/t/ in top, stop, spits, swift)
analytic - ANSWER pertaining to instruction or a process that separates WHOLE
into its PARTS. Analytic phonics separates a whole word into its parts so students
can deduce the phonics relationships of the separate orthographic patterns
angular gyrus - ANSWER an area of the brain for visual-verbal associations
anomaly - ANSWER irregularity; deviation from the common notion of fitness
or order
ARD - ANSWER advanced reading deck; shows only the letter
auditory discrimination - ANSWER Necessary to "break the code" for reading. It
involves being able to perceive the differences between speech sounds and to
sequence these sounds into meaningful words.
, CALT
base word - ANSWER the simplest form of an English word; a word without
affixes, such as spell
benchmark measures - ANSWER progress measurement administered at the
end of each schedule, when students have had enough practice
breve - ANSWER a diacritical marking that indicates a short vowel sound
Broca's area - ANSWER posterior portion of the frontal lobe that is in charge of
phonological processing and semantics of language. This are in the front left of the
brain is responsible for EXPRESSIVE language - articulating spoken words and
analyzing words
Broca's aphasia - ANSWER person cannot get the words out but understands
cedilla - ANSWER a diacritical mark (,) placed below the letter c to indicate that
it is pronounced as an s
chameleon prefix - ANSWER a prefix whose final consonant changes based on
the initial letter of the root (in- changes to ir- before regular, irregular); done for
euphony
circumflex - ANSWER a diacritical mark (^) placed above a vowel in a
combination to indicate accented syllable
coarticulation - ANSWER adjacent sounds often are spoken in such a way that
one phoneme seems to overlap, is changed by, and/or modifies another.
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