ICLA STANDARD 5 TEST QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS
504 Plan - Answer The Section 504 requirements compel a school district to
provide a 'free adequate public education' (FAPE) to every qualifying student
with a disability who lives in its jurisdiction, regardless of the nature or severity
of their disability.
Accommodation: ANSWER Changes in the curriculum, instruction, or
assessment format or processes that allow students with disabilities to engage in
ways that highlight their skills rather than their impairments.
Adaptation - Answer Changes in curriculum, instruction, or assessments that
allow a student with a handicap who has a major impact on performance to
participate.
Accurate and Fluent Word Recognition - Answer Ability to read words rapidly,
accurately, and at a sufficient rate to support comprehension.
The alphabetic principle states that letters are employed to represent distinct
phonemes in the spoken word.
2. Representing speech sounds with a collection of different symbols (letters),
each of which denotes a single sound
Assessment: ANSWER The act of obtaining data to better understand the
strengths and needs of student learning.
Assistive Technology - Answer Any device, piece of equipment, program, app,
or extension utilised to support a student's particular functional needs.
Automaticity: ANSWER When reading, words are recognised automatically
and accurately.
, Comprehension - Answer The "essence of reading" is the process of extracting
and building meaning through interaction and involvement with written
language; it incorporates the reader, the text, and the activity or purpose, all
positioned within the sociocultural environment.
Decoding: ANSWER The ability to translate a word from print to voice,
typically using knowledge of sound-symbol correspondences; also, the act of
sounding out a new word.
Deficit in the phonological component - answer Difficulty pronouncing,
remembering, or thinking about the different speech sounds that comprise
words.
Diagnostic Assessment - Answer A type of pre-assessment that enables a
teacher to identify pupils' particular strengths, limitations, knowledge, and skills
prior to instruction.
Differentiated Instruction: ANSWER An approach to teaching in which
educators actively organise instruction based on students' learning peculiarities.
Dyslexia - Answer A neurological learning deficit in reading, characterised by
"difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition as well as poor
spelling and decoding abilities."
Dysgraphia - Answer The condition of defective letter writing by hand, also
known as handicapped handwriting.
Encoding: ANSWER Writing or spelling a word; The ability to transfer a word
from speech to print.
Evidence-based practice - ANSWER Teaching practices supported by high-
quality research and scientific investigations that have been reproduced with
beneficial results.
Executive Function - ANSWER The frontal lobe of the brain controls the use of
mental skills such as working memory, flexible thinking, and self-control.
AND ANSWERS
504 Plan - Answer The Section 504 requirements compel a school district to
provide a 'free adequate public education' (FAPE) to every qualifying student
with a disability who lives in its jurisdiction, regardless of the nature or severity
of their disability.
Accommodation: ANSWER Changes in the curriculum, instruction, or
assessment format or processes that allow students with disabilities to engage in
ways that highlight their skills rather than their impairments.
Adaptation - Answer Changes in curriculum, instruction, or assessments that
allow a student with a handicap who has a major impact on performance to
participate.
Accurate and Fluent Word Recognition - Answer Ability to read words rapidly,
accurately, and at a sufficient rate to support comprehension.
The alphabetic principle states that letters are employed to represent distinct
phonemes in the spoken word.
2. Representing speech sounds with a collection of different symbols (letters),
each of which denotes a single sound
Assessment: ANSWER The act of obtaining data to better understand the
strengths and needs of student learning.
Assistive Technology - Answer Any device, piece of equipment, program, app,
or extension utilised to support a student's particular functional needs.
Automaticity: ANSWER When reading, words are recognised automatically
and accurately.
, Comprehension - Answer The "essence of reading" is the process of extracting
and building meaning through interaction and involvement with written
language; it incorporates the reader, the text, and the activity or purpose, all
positioned within the sociocultural environment.
Decoding: ANSWER The ability to translate a word from print to voice,
typically using knowledge of sound-symbol correspondences; also, the act of
sounding out a new word.
Deficit in the phonological component - answer Difficulty pronouncing,
remembering, or thinking about the different speech sounds that comprise
words.
Diagnostic Assessment - Answer A type of pre-assessment that enables a
teacher to identify pupils' particular strengths, limitations, knowledge, and skills
prior to instruction.
Differentiated Instruction: ANSWER An approach to teaching in which
educators actively organise instruction based on students' learning peculiarities.
Dyslexia - Answer A neurological learning deficit in reading, characterised by
"difficulties with accurate and/or fluent word recognition as well as poor
spelling and decoding abilities."
Dysgraphia - Answer The condition of defective letter writing by hand, also
known as handicapped handwriting.
Encoding: ANSWER Writing or spelling a word; The ability to transfer a word
from speech to print.
Evidence-based practice - ANSWER Teaching practices supported by high-
quality research and scientific investigations that have been reproduced with
beneficial results.
Executive Function - ANSWER The frontal lobe of the brain controls the use of
mental skills such as working memory, flexible thinking, and self-control.
