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ICLA Standard 5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The Section 504 regulations require a school district to provide a 'free appropriate public education' (FAPE) to each qualifed student with a disability who is in the school district's jurisdiction, regardless of the nature or severity of the disability | 504 Plan |
| 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 | Accommodation |
| Changes to curriculum, instruction, or assessments that enable a student with a disability that signifcantly impacts performance an opportunity to participate. | Adaptation |
| Ability to read words quickly and accurately and read at a sufficient rate to support comprehension | Accurate and Fluent Word Recognition |
| 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 | Alphabetic Principle |
| The act or process of gathering data in order to better understand the strengths and needs of student learning | Assessment |
| Any item, piece of equipment, software, app, or extension that is used to support the individual functional needs of a student | Assistive Technology |
| Automatic accurate word recognition when reading | Automaticity |
| 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 | Comprehension |
| 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. | Decoding |
| Difficulty pronouncing, remembering, or thinking about the individual speech sounds that make up words | Deficit in Phonological Component |
| A form of pre-assessment that allows a teacher to determine students' individual strengths, weaknesses, knowledge, and skills prior to instruction | Diagnostic Assessment |
| An approach to teaching in which educators actively plan instruction aligned to students' learning diferences. | Differentiated Instruction |
| A specifc learning disability in reading that is neurobiological in origin, characterized by "difculties with accurate and/or fuent word recognition and by poor spelling and decoding abilities | Dyslexia |
| The condition of impaired letter writing by hand, that is, disabled handwriting. | Dysgraphia |
| To write or spell a word; Ability to translate a word from speech to print | Encoding |
| Practices in teaching backed by high-standard, quality research and scientific studies that have been replicated with positive outcomes | Evidence-based practices |
| Use of the set of mental skills including working memory, fexible thinking, and self-control; controlled by the frontal lobe of the brain | Executive Function |
| Concepts are clearly explained and skills are (directly) modeled, without vagueness or ambiguity | Explicit Instruction |
| Accurate reading of connected text at a conversational rate with appropriate prosody | Fluency |
| This law makes available a FAPE to eligible children with disabilities throughout the nation | IDEA 2004 |
| A program that is developed to ensure a child with an identifed disability as defned by law is receiving specialized instruction and appropriate related services such as accommodation and/ or modifcation. | IEP |
| The process of making meaning from what we hear. This includes listening vocabulary, background knowledge, and attention. | Listening process |
| Smallest meaning units of language that contains both sound and meaning linguistic entities that may be whole words, parts of words, or single phonemes | Morpheme |
| The study of the structure and forms of words, including derivation, infection, and compounding | Morphology |
| The desire to attain an objective or goal. May be influenced by both extrinsic and intrinsic factors | Motivation |
| The use of more than one of the visual, auditory, kinesthetic-tactile, and/or articulatory motor strategies to enhance memory and learning of written language | Multisensory/Multimodal |
| A comprehensive multi-tiered system of support that includes both behavioral and academic support systems. | Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS) |
| Connections in the brain enabling signals to be sent from one region to another | Neural Pathway |
| While the neurological origin of dyslexia in an individual is presumed, it is not necessary to require medical assessments including neurological, neuropsychological, or neuroimaging to identify dyslexia | Neurological origin |
| the writing system of a language - specifcally, the correct sequence of letters, characters, or symbols | Orthography |
| 1) The smallest unit of sound in a word 2) Phonemes are described by their position in a word | Phoneme |
| Phonemic awareness is often assessed by the ability to tap or count every sound heard in a word, to verbally blend individual sounds into a word, to manipulate sounds to manipulate syllables and to produce rhymes | Phonemic Awareness |
| The systematic relationship between letters and sounds in a written alphabetic system | Phonics |
| The awareness that spoken language is composed of separate words that make sure sentences and that words are made up of syllables | Phonological Awareness |
| An assessment system used to assess students' academic performance, to quantify a student rate of improvement or responsiveness to instruction, and to evaluate the effectiveness of instruction | Progress Monitoring |
| The ability to orally read text expressively, with appropriate pacing, phrasing, and intonation | Prosody |
| Instructional approaches that have been identified through research as being effective at increasing student learning | Research-based-instruction |
| A multi-tiered approach used by educators to help identified and support students who are struggling with a skill. | Response to Intervention (RTI) |
| "A neurobiological-based processing disorder leading to difculties in acquiring knowledge and skills to the level expected of those of the same age and ability" | Specific Learning Disability (SLD) |
| Ability to read unknown words by using phonics and syllable patterns and to spell words accurately according to the English language system | Spelling and Decoding Abilities |
| Instructional techniques (scaffolds) used to develop and strengthen student's skills in phonological awareness, decoding, fluency, vocabulary, comprehension, and writing to become independent, strategic readers and writers. | Strategies |
| "An approach to teaching students the structure of the English language using direct and explicit instruction in a systematic and cumulative manner, including diagnostic teaching of the essential components of language and reading" | Structured literacy |
| A word or part of a word pronounced as a unit; Units of spoken language that consist of a vowel that may be preceded and/or followed by several consonants.Syllables are units of sound and can often be detected by paying attention to movements of the mouth | Syllable |
| There are six common types of syllables: closed, VCs (long vowel-consonant-final e), open, vowel team/vowel combination, r-controlled, consonant +le (final stable syllable) | Syllable Types |
| Rules for a language consistently used to put words together in grammatically-correct sentences | Syntax |
| Teaching a set of sound/spelling relationships in a clearly defined and purposefully selected logical instructional sequence that follows the logical order of language | Systematic Instruction |
| Universal. Student performance is at or above grade level, requiring core instruction | Tier 1 of instruction |
| -Strategic. Student performance near (but still below) grade level, requiring a moderate amount of intervention support. | Tier 2 of instruction |
| Intensive. Student performance that is well below grade level and which indicates a need for a high level of intervention support | Tier 3 of instruction |
| A short, easy-to-administer assessment used to identify students who may be at risk for learning diffculties | Universal Screener |
| The ability of a brain to hold and work with small amounts of information while performing cognitive tasks, before the information is either transferred to long-term memory or dismissed | Working Memory |