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CSET Reading Language Literature

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1. Strategy to teach reading and spelling that involves a relationship between sounds and written symbols - study and use of sound/spelling correspondences to identify written words






2. Vowels and consonants repeat






3. Understanding that phonemes (sounds) make up spoken words - including the ability to blend - segment and manipulate phonemes in spoken words - auditory without the inclusion or use of print






4. A meditation on life and death






5. English - written words made up of letters that match sounds heard when spoken - corresponding to each other






6. Action






7. Produced when the vocal cords are apart






8. One person talking with others around






9. Tells stories - dramatic poetry - Shakespeare






10. A word phrase that has a meaning different from it s usual meaning - 'He lost his head'






11. Demonstrates truth






12. Setting - character - plot






13. 2 different forms which are identical in every way except for 1 sound segment that occurs in the same place in the string (sink - zink - pink/ hit - hat - hot






14. Technique commonly used by poets in which the sound of a word imitates a natural sound






15. Specific to general conclusion - reliable or unreliable - used to discover something new






16. Reference to work of literature or a well - known historical event - person - or place






17. To leave one country to live in another






18. Left to right - visual clues recognized






19. Descriptive - narrative - expository/explanatory - argumentative






20. Unit of meaning that cannot be divided into smaller words (book) - free morpheme stands alone (lock - man) - bound morphemes must be combined as prefix - suffix - or inflectional endings (locks - man's)






21. Comparison of 2 things - stressing their similarities






22. Lyric - narrative - dramatic






23. Show high probability of being true






24. Knowledge (recall & recognize - comprehend (changes into a different symbolic form - application (solves a problem using info & appropriate generalization - synthesis (solves a problem by collaboration of information and original creative thinking -






25. Appeal of logic or reason






26. A word that is close in meaning to another word






27. False impression






28. Short poems from the word lyre 'harp like instrument' - haiku - ode - elegy - sonnet






29. Humorous play on words






30. 14 line lyric with a certain pattern or rhyme and rhythm - love poems






31. Express praise or flattery






32. Planning - brainstorming - mapping/clustering/webbing - prior knowledge - prewriting - proofreading - drafting - writing - shaping - revising - editing -






33. Does not use like or as - direct comparison of one thing spoken of as though it were something else






34. Event or detail chronologically out of its proper time in history






35. Analysis & study of meanings of words - phrases - and sentences - useful strategy for decoding words used in sentences






36. Long poems that describe a deed of heroes in battle or conflicts between human beings and natural and divine forces






37. Appeal of emotion






38. A story told in the words of one person






39. Tells stories - Epics & Ballads






40. Word families






41. Combining sounds to pronounce words 'sounding it out'






42. New vowel sounds produced by two vowels (OY in boy - I in buy)






43. Adds to the meaning of a verb - another adverb - adj. - or whole sentence. 'I'll finish 'in a minute''






44. Your dancing was excellent.






45. Appeal to the moral or ethical sense






46. Study of morphemes & their variants allomorphs - and word formation - combining morphemes






47. Consider the whole - break it into its components parts






48. 2 letters that make 1 sound






49. The audience became silent.






50. Read 'between the lines' make inferences about unstated assumptions implied by material







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