2024 ALTA COMPETENCY EXAM GUIDE WITH
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affix - prefix or suffix added to a base word. ex. unhelpful active learning - learning in which the learner mentally searches for connections between new and already known information allophone - a variation of a speech sound (/t/ in top, stop, spits, swift) analytic - 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 - an area of the brain for visual-verbal associations anomaly - irregularity; deviation from the common notion of fitness or order ARD - advanced reading deck; shows only the letter auditory discrimination - 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 - the simplest form of an English word; a word without affixes, such as spell benchmark measures - progress measurement administered at the end of each schedule, when students have had enough practice breve - a diacritical marking that indicates a short vowel sound 1 / 2
Broca's area - 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 - person cannot get the words out but understands cedilla - a diacritical mark (,) placed below the letter c to indicate that it is pronounced as an s chameleon prefix - 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 - a diacritical mark (^) placed above a vowel in a combination to indicate accented syllable coarticulation - adjacent sounds often are spoken in such a way that one phoneme seems to overlap, is changed by, and/or modifies another. Coarticulation is the way the brain organizes sequences of vowels and consonants, interweaving the individual movements necessary for each into one smooth whole. In fact, the process applies to all body movement, not just speech, and is part of how homo sapiens work.combination - two letters in a single syllable when one makes an unexpected sound or stand in an
unexpected sequence: ar, er, ir, or, ur, qu, wh
co-morbidity - More than one deficiency such as dysgraphia/ disorder of reading comprehension; phonological processing speed/ written expression.consonant - a class of speech sounds with airflow that is constricted or obstructed decoding - reading; blending letters to read derivative - a word made from another by adding a suffix or prefix diacritical markings - a dictionary mark indicating pronunciation
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