ICLA Standard 5 Questions with Detailed Verified
Answers for Accuracy
504 Plan
✓✓ The Section 504 regulations require a school district to
provide a 'free appropriate public education' (FAPE) to each
qualified student with a disability who is in the school district's
jurisdiction, regardless of the nature or severity of the
disability.
Accommodation
✓✓ Changes in the curriculum, instruction, or testing format or
procedures that enable students with disabilities to participate
in a way that allows them to demonstrate their abilities rather
than disabilities.
Adaptation
✓✓ Changes to curriculum, instruction, or assessments that
enable a student with a disability that significantly impacts
performance an opportunity to participate.
Accurate and Fluent Word Recognition
✓✓ Ability to read words quickly and accurately and read at a
sufficient rate to support comprehension
Alphabetic Principle
, ACCURACY IS GUARANTEED
✓✓ 1. The principle that letters are used to represent individual
phonemes in the spoken word
2. Representing the sounds of speech with a set of distinct
symbols (letters), each denoting a single sound
Assessment
✓✓ The act or process of gathering data in order to better
understand the strengths and needs of student learning
Assistive Technology
✓✓ Any item, piece of equipment, software, app, or extension
that is used to support the individual functional needs of a
student
Automaticity
✓✓ Automatic accurate word recognition when reading
Comprehension
✓✓ The "essence of reading"; the process of simultaneously
extracting and constructing meaning through interaction and
involvement with written language; involves the reader, the
text, and the activity or purpose all situated within the
sociocultural context
Decoding
✓✓ Ability to translate a word from print to speech, usually by
employing knowledge of sound-symbol correspondences; also
the act of deciphering a new word by sounding it out.