ALTA Competency Exam questions with correct answers

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. 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 e