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CSET Subtest English
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cset
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english
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. A technique of pre - writing in which the writer writes any ideas without limit
lyrical
spelling
brainstorming
metalinguistic awareness
2. The idea that the written language represents that sounds of spoken languages
Milestones of language acquistion/five to seven years
tales
alphabetic principle
syntax
3. When children realize that letters represent sounds - may know only a few letters in the alphabet
free - writing
concluding sentence
parody
Milestones in Spelling/pre - communicative
4. An attack launched against a person and the person's position - 'the candidate is a cowardly man'
Milestones in Spelling/correct stage
Child directed speech
ad hominem
short story
5. Adults modify their speech to make it easier for children to learn languages - including sentence structures and repeating key words
Milestones of language acquistion/two to five years
ad hominem
high frequency word recognition
Child directed speech
6. Language that does not literally mean what it says - like the 'black bat night has flown the coop'
zone of proximal development
universal grammar
archetypes
figurative language
7. The stage in which a child learns how to spell a word correctly by memory
revision and editing
morphology
Milestones in Spelling/correct stage
fiction
8. Through spelling tests - teachers can determine the spelling stage that a student is at
alphabetic principle
Milestones of language acquistion/seven years to adulthood
spelling inventory
Milestones in Reading/ornographic
9. When children begin to use past tenses and plurals in speeches
short story
over - regularizations
phonemes
morphology
10. An author's account of their life
language acquisition device
autobiography
phonemes
informal assessment
11. Awareness that language is something that can be mastered
metalinguistic awareness
Milestones of language acquistion/five to seven years
concepts of print
first draft
12. Emergent speech/grammar explosion
syntax
archetypes
squinting modifier
Milestones of language acquistion/two to five years
13. When a young child can use the context to quickly arrive to the understanding of a word's meaning
second language acuqisition
fast mapping
metalinguistic awareness
Milestones in Reading/ornographic
14. A story that was used to make sense of the world - like a story about a higher power
metalinguistic awareness
myth
Milestones in Reading/milddle to late alphabetic
tales
15. The realization that occurs in kindergarten that words should be read from left to right
ad hominem
mind map
concepts of print
grapheme
16. Attributing human qualities to a non - human animal or object
Milestones in Spelling/phonetic stage
paragraph
personification
high frequency word recognition
17. A blending of vowel words like 'ou' in 'out
metalinguistic awareness
informal assessment
publication
diphthong
18. An opinion that is disgiuised as a fact
faulty logic
dyslexia
false casality
over - regularizations
19. Knows about books and that books tell stories
Milestones of language acquistion/eighteen months to thirty months
semantics
concepts about print
Milestones in Reading/milddle to late alphabetic
20. A modifier that is placed to close to a word that it should not modify
oxymoron
figurative language
misplaced modifier
spelling inventory
21. Cooing to babbling
Milestones of language acquistion/seven years to adulthood
pursuasive writing and speech
Milestones of language acquistion/birth to one year
habituation
22. Idenetify letters and can form letters
begging the question
alphabet knowledge
high frequency word recognition
morphemes
23. Developing a phonemic awareness - starts with distinguishing different phonemes - then morphemes and then syntax. Then - children decode words and practice reading texts of ascending difficulty until they become a fluent reader
concepts about print
syntax
reading
Milestones of language acquistion/seven years to adulthood
24. Sounds that signal different meanings like'b' and 't'
appositive
phonemes
overgeneralization
oxymoron
25. Works that have happened in real life. usually with a purpose and especially to inform
spelling inventory
personification
non - fiction
blending
26. Occurs before kindergarten in which text progresses left to right
Milestones in Reading/early alphabetic
mind map
concepts of print
Milestones in Reading/pre - alphabetic
27. The phase in which a reader looks over punctuation and spelling and grammatical correctness -
second language acuqisition
fast mapping
begging the question
revision and editing
28. An assumption without argument - Because I always tell the truth - I am not lying to you now.
begging the question
myth
compound sentences
Milestones in Reading/milddle to late alphabetic
29. When infants and childrne repeat sounds that are reinforced
habituation
oxymoron
underextensions
digraph
30. Decoding and creating written words - using proper spelling - also includes the ability to listen - speak - read - and write and obtain and retrieve information
phonemes
ad hominem
literacy
free - writing
31. Works that are invented by the writer
language acquisition device
personification
satire
fiction
32. A sentence that is often the last or next - to - last sentence and is the least essential in the paragraph
phonological awareness
concluding sentence
literacy
tales
33. Sound sequences that convey meanings like the words 'bat' and 'rat'
figurative language
oral reading inventory
morphemes
metaphor
34. Intermediate language fluency
Milestones of language acquistion/five to seven years
squinting modifier
zone of proximal development
Milestones in Reading/early alphabetic
35. A reference to something outside a work of literature - like to a literary event - person or work
pragmatics
spelling inventory
first draft
allusion
36. Sentences that have two clauses that could be independent but are connected by a conjunction.
Milestones of language acquistion/two to five years
paragraph
morphology
compound sentences
37. The comparison of two different objects using the word 'like' or 'as'
first draft
Milestones of language acquistion/one to two years
Milestones of language acquistion/two to five years
simile
38. When a vowel is combined with an 'r' like 'or' or 'ur'
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39. Refcognizes word recognition out of context
'r - controlled'
metaphor
high frequency word recognition
satire
40. Developed by Stephen Krashen - children can naturally gain a language unconcsciously if exposed to it through a comprehensive input - aka a teacher - that can set a limit to how much the language is learned without overcomplicating the language or lo
dangling modifiers
second language acuqisition
alphabet knowledge
paragraph
41. A story that exposes humorously the foibles - vices and follies of a group or a system
publication
Child directed speech
morphemes
satire
42. An irrelevant point used to distract from an argument at hand
Milestones of language acquistion/eighteen months to thirty months
red herring
spelling inventory
second language acuqisition
43. Early word errors that toddlers make
Milestones of language acquistion/one to two years
overgeneralization
underextensions
dangling modifiers
44. A modifier that does not logically refer tothe statement immediately following it
dangling modifiers
oxymoron
high frequency word recognition
oral reading inventory
45. Graded passages that show at what level a student can read at
morphology
oral reading inventory
pursuasive writing and speech
metacognitive approach
46. Supporting details - analysis and eividence expanding on the topic sentence
revision and editing
oxymoron
body sentence
personification
47. Occurs grades two to three: children can read larger words in print and accuracy and speed in reading are stressed
alphabet knowledge
underextensions
Milestones in Reading/ornographic
over - regularizations
48. Occurs in grades 1 to 2: vowels are included
personification
Milestones in Reading/milddle to late alphabetic
literacy
fast mapping
49. Spelling has been traditionally taught through memorization but phonemic awareness may be the key to improving spelling in its five stages of development
Milestones in Spelling/pre - communicative
spelling
mind map
overgeneralization
50. Treating two or more coincidences as if one caused the other 'Martin Luther King's birth caused the civil rights march'
bandwagon effect
blending
ad hominem
false casality