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CSET Reading Language Literature

Subjects : cset, literature
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Consider the whole - break it into its components parts






2. Extensive oral vocabulary contributes by helping reader recognize a word after sounding it out






3. Means to stand still






4. Conventions - lft - rt - top - bottom - spaces between words -






5. 2 letters make one speech sound (th - sh)






6. Process of applying knowledge of letter - sound relationships - blending the sounds represented by letters so as to arrive at the pronunciation of printed words






7. Phonetic unit or segment






8. To leave one country to live in another






9. Writing with vowels in each syllable - read chunks or phonograms






10. Extract and restate that material's main message - literal level






11. Adds descriptive - modifies or qualifies a noun - can be phrase or clause 'The man 'in the blue shirt' is his father'






12. Smallest sound unit of speech - /b/ in book - segments used to differentiate between meanings of words - required understanding of phonological rules of the language for knowing how to produce words






13. Descriptive - narrative - expository/explanatory - argumentative






14. Word families






15. Judge the quality of the material on its own and as holds up in your synthesis or it with related material






16. Appeal of logic or reason






17. One person talking with others around






18. 14 line lyric with a certain pattern or rhyme and rhythm - love poems






19. Person noun - takes a nouns place 'I - you - they - her - its - ours'






20. Writing from which a lesson is to be learned






21. 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)






22. A meditation on life and death






23. Writing paper






24. Use pitch syntactically






25. Vowels and consonants repeat






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






27. Teach and speak at a normal rate in English but use scaffolding - not sheltering English amplifying lessons not simplifying - emphasis on skills that promote thinking - creative - meaning - making individuals who feel they are part of a community of






28. The audience became silent.






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






30. Serious - elaborate lyric full of high praise and noble feeling developed by the Greeks






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






32. A story told in the words of one person






33. Tells stories - Epics & Ballads






34. Pair of successive rhymed lines of poetry






35. Hero or heroine






36. Read larger units of print - use analogy to decode larger words - fluent decoding - accuracy and speed of reading stressed






37. Subject & predicate - cannot stand alone as sentence






38. Used to describe one thing in terms of something else - not intended to be taken literally






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






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






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






42. Lyric - narrative - dramatic






43. Tells stories - dramatic poetry - Shakespeare






44. A word opposite in meaning to another word






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






46. Adjective clause - subject & predicate - cannot stand alone - modifies subject with relative pronoun or adverb






47. System and pattern of speech sounds - knowledge of sound patterns is part of the grammar since you create 'meaningful units'






48. Speech sound produced by partial or complete obstruction of the air stream by any various constrictions of speech organs (not vowels)






49. 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






50. 2 letters that make 1 sound