ALTA Review (in progress)
ALTA Review (progressive) Exam with
516 Correctly Answered Questions
Updated 2024.
(This is review for the Academic
Language Therapy Association (ALTA)
national certification exam)
Dyslexia*** - Answer: adequate intelligence yet trouble with reading, writing and
spelling.
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Strephosymbolia*** - Answer: means twisted symbols. The first term Orton used
for dyslexia.
phonetics - Answer: the study of speech sounds in spoken language
phonological awareness - Answer: the ability to focus on units of sound in spoken
language at the sentence, word, syllable and phoneme levels
phonemic awareness - Answer: awareness of speech sounds or phonemes in
spoken words
phonics - Answer: instruction that connects sounds and letters
intensive phonics*** - Answer: Intensive phonics refers to the early focused
emphasis on teaching and practicing sound/symbol relationships.
synthetic phonics*** - Answer: explicitly teaches individual grapheme-phoneme
correspondences before they are blended to form syllables or whole words
Synthetic phonics refers to teaching individual sound/symbol relationships, then
blending those learned into words
alphabetic principle - Answer: the understanding that spoken sounds are
represented in print by written letters
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consonant - Answer: blocked / voiced or unvoiced sounds - a class of speech
sounds with air flow that is constricted or obstructed
vowel - Answer: open and voiced sounds - a class of open speech sounds
produced by the passage of air through an open vocal tract
phonology, morphology, syntax*** - Answer: form of language
phonology*** - Answer: the rules that determine how sounds are used in spoken
language
fluency*** - Answer: reading with rapidity and automaticity
prosody*** - Answer: the rhythmic flow of oral reading
pragmatics*** - Answer: set of rules that dictate communicative behavior and use
of language, rules we communicate by
syntax*** - Answer: sentence structure, grammar, usage
semantics*** - Answer: content of language, used to express knowledge of the
world around us
phoneme*** - Answer: smallest unit of sound in a syllable
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spelling*** - Answer: sound to symbol / phoneme to grapheme, connect
grapheme to phoneme
orthography*** - Answer: the spelling of written language
orthographic memory*** - Answer: memory of letter patterns and word spellings
metalinguistics*** - Answer: awareness of language as an entity
guided discovery*** - Answer: a method of leading students to new learning
through questioning
Heuristic*** - Answer: means to discover by demonstration
grapheme - Answer: a letter or letter cluster that represents a single speech sound
decoding - Answer: word recognition in which the phonetic code is broken down
to determine a word
blending*** - Answer: fusing individual sounds, syllables or words into
meaningful units
reading*** - Answer: symbol to sound / grapheme to phoneme
ALTA Review (progressive) Exam with
516 Correctly Answered Questions
Updated 2024.
(This is review for the Academic
Language Therapy Association (ALTA)
national certification exam)
Dyslexia*** - Answer: adequate intelligence yet trouble with reading, writing and
spelling.
, ALTA Review (in progress)
Strephosymbolia*** - Answer: means twisted symbols. The first term Orton used
for dyslexia.
phonetics - Answer: the study of speech sounds in spoken language
phonological awareness - Answer: the ability to focus on units of sound in spoken
language at the sentence, word, syllable and phoneme levels
phonemic awareness - Answer: awareness of speech sounds or phonemes in
spoken words
phonics - Answer: instruction that connects sounds and letters
intensive phonics*** - Answer: Intensive phonics refers to the early focused
emphasis on teaching and practicing sound/symbol relationships.
synthetic phonics*** - Answer: explicitly teaches individual grapheme-phoneme
correspondences before they are blended to form syllables or whole words
Synthetic phonics refers to teaching individual sound/symbol relationships, then
blending those learned into words
alphabetic principle - Answer: the understanding that spoken sounds are
represented in print by written letters
, ALTA Review (in progress)
consonant - Answer: blocked / voiced or unvoiced sounds - a class of speech
sounds with air flow that is constricted or obstructed
vowel - Answer: open and voiced sounds - a class of open speech sounds
produced by the passage of air through an open vocal tract
phonology, morphology, syntax*** - Answer: form of language
phonology*** - Answer: the rules that determine how sounds are used in spoken
language
fluency*** - Answer: reading with rapidity and automaticity
prosody*** - Answer: the rhythmic flow of oral reading
pragmatics*** - Answer: set of rules that dictate communicative behavior and use
of language, rules we communicate by
syntax*** - Answer: sentence structure, grammar, usage
semantics*** - Answer: content of language, used to express knowledge of the
world around us
phoneme*** - Answer: smallest unit of sound in a syllable
, ALTA Review (in progress)
spelling*** - Answer: sound to symbol / phoneme to grapheme, connect
grapheme to phoneme
orthography*** - Answer: the spelling of written language
orthographic memory*** - Answer: memory of letter patterns and word spellings
metalinguistics*** - Answer: awareness of language as an entity
guided discovery*** - Answer: a method of leading students to new learning
through questioning
Heuristic*** - Answer: means to discover by demonstration
grapheme - Answer: a letter or letter cluster that represents a single speech sound
decoding - Answer: word recognition in which the phonetic code is broken down
to determine a word
blending*** - Answer: fusing individual sounds, syllables or words into
meaningful units
reading*** - Answer: symbol to sound / grapheme to phoneme
