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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. Through spelling tests - teachers can determine the spelling stage that a student is at
tales
Milestones in Spelling/transitional stage
spelling inventory
grapheme
2. Spelling has been traditionally taught through memorization but phonemic awareness may be the key to improving spelling in its five stages of development
spelling
over - regularizations
zone of proximal development
Milestones in Reading/early alphabetic
3. The idea that the written language represents that sounds of spoken languages
allegory
archetypes
biography
alphabetic principle
4. An opinion that is disgiuised as a fact
underextensions
dyslexia
faulty logic
semantics
5. Occurs in grades k to 1: letters are conenected tro sounds
Milestones in Reading/early alphabetic
zone of proximal development
morphology
red herring
6. The study in which the ways words - sentences and sounds are used to convey language aka VOCABULARY
phonological awareness
lyrical
semantics
Milestones in Spelling/correct stage
7. An author's account of their life
autobiography
Milestones of language acquistion/birth to one year
blending
squinting modifier
8. When a young child can use the context to quickly arrive to the understanding of a word's meaning
Milestones in Reading/milddle to late alphabetic
fast mapping
concluding sentence
'r - controlled'
9. Written representation of a 'phoneme' (the letter 'b' or 'p')
grapheme
Milestones in Spelling/pre - communicative
prewriting
revision and editing
10. An assumption without argument - Because I always tell the truth - I am not lying to you now.
semantics
Milestones of language acquistion/eighteen months to thirty months
dyslexia
begging the question
11. The technqiue designed to help the writer develop and organize their thoughts
morphemes
compound sentences
syntax
prewriting
12. 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
tales
second language acuqisition
Milestones of language acquistion/two to five years
phonemes
13. Idenetify letters and can form letters
alphabet knowledge
allusion
pragmatics
grapheme
14. Being convineced by a position's popularity
tales
literacy
spelling inventory
bandwagon effect
15. Refcognizes word recognition out of context
high frequency word recognition
compound sentences
over - regularizations
morphemes
16. A group of sentences based on a similar topic
compound sentences
phonemes
paragraph
Milestones in Spelling/transitional stage
17. An accurate history ofa single person
biography
topic sentence
Milestones in Spelling/semi - phonetic stage
concepts of print
18. Treating two or more coincidences as if one caused the other 'Martin Luther King's birth caused the civil rights march'
language acquisition device
misplaced modifier
false casality
non - fiction
19. Decoding and creating written words - using proper spelling - also includes the ability to listen - speak - read - and write and obtain and retrieve information
universal grammar
dyslexia
free - writing
literacy
20. The idea of stereotyping - don't trust someone over thirty
over - regularizations
metalinguistic awareness
overgeneralization
Milestones in Reading/early alphabetic
21. Emergent speech/grammar explosion
Milestones in Spelling/transitional stage
allegory
Milestones of language acquistion/two to five years
universal grammar
22. Works that are invented by the writer
underextensions
topic sentence
fiction
'r - controlled'
23. A story that odriginated and deeloped over time and was passed on from generations to generations
Milestones of language acquistion/eighteen months to thirty months
metaphor
body sentence
tales
24. A blending of vowel words like 'ou' in 'out
Milestones in Spelling/transitional stage
fiction
personification
diphthong
25. An extended metaphor that is carried through an entire narrative like 'Everyman'
high frequency word recognition
universal grammar
allegory
Milestones in Reading/early alphabetic
26. Understanding the fact that words are comprised of sounds known as phonemes
spelling
second language acuqisition
topic sentence
phonological awareness
27. The study of word structures based on the prefixes and suffixes that the words come from
oxymoron
alphabet knowledge
morphology
brainstorming
28. The act of transforming one thing into another in a story
body sentence
metalinguistic awareness
metaphor
archetypes
29. The ability to read with the appropriate speed and intonation
Milestones in Spelling/phonetic stage
alphabet knowledge
phonological awareness
fluency
30. Occurs grades two to three: children can read larger words in print and accuracy and speed in reading are stressed
non - fiction
fast mapping
Milestones in Reading/ornographic
bandwagon effect
31. The phase in which a reader looks over punctuation and spelling and grammatical correctness -
archetypes
figurative language
revision and editing
Child directed speech
32. Children systematically represent speech sounds with letters or groups of letters in a logical way - they also attempt to spell - but may not spell correctly - like 'kom' instead of 'come'
concluding sentence
Milestones in Spelling/phonetic stage
spelling inventory
morphology
33. The act of posting the final work - good writing should be shared and celebrated
parody
first draft
publication
faulty logic
34. Graded passages that show at what level a student can read at
oral reading inventory
allusion
metalinguistic awareness
phonemes
35. Songlike; characterized by emotion - subjectivity and imagination
lyrical
formal assessment
concepts about print
ad hominem
36. The study of the way sounds function in a language
metalinguistic awareness
concluding sentence
red herring
phonology
37. A noun - or noun phrase - that names the noun next to it - like 'The insect - a cockroach....'
overgeneralization
appositive
free - writing
prewriting
38. Developed by Leo Vygotsky - the area where a child can solve problems on their own - best observed during unstructured play. social environment influences the way that language is developed. language determines the nature of our thoughts - our person
zone of proximal development
blending
reading
tales
39. Holophrastic speech (one word utters like ball)
Milestones of language acquistion/one to two years
squinting modifier
pragmatics
over - regularizations
40. A technique of pre - writing in which the writer writes any ideas without limit
tales
'r - controlled'
misplaced modifier
brainstorming
41. Children with low phonological awareness who also have trouble blending speech sounds and segmenting
alphabet knowledge
body sentence
underextensions
dyslexia
42. Ongoing classroom activities focused on individual achievements
allegory
phonology
informal assessment
autobiography
43. Sound sequences that convey meanings like the words 'bat' and 'rat'
morphemes
diphthong
phonemes
literacy
44. A type of pre - writing with the main idea in the center of the sheet of paper and subtopics branching out from the center to make their own ideas
Milestones of language acquistion/birth to one year
mind map
Milestones in Spelling/correct stage
literacy
45. A reference to something outside a work of literature - like to a literary event - person or work
allusion
mind map
metaphor
fluency
46. Occurs in grades 1 to 2: vowels are included
blending
concepts about print
Milestones in Reading/milddle to late alphabetic
free - writing
47. Adults modify their speech to make it easier for children to learn languages - including sentence structures and repeating key words
brainstorming
autobiography
dyslexia
Child directed speech
48. Knows about books and that books tell stories
squinting modifier
concepts about print
phonology
Milestones in Reading/early alphabetic
49. The act to write dow nany idea as they come without regard to structure or grammar
over - regularizations
allegory
Milestones of language acquistion/two to five years
free - writing
50. Attributing human qualities to a non - human animal or object
parody
personification
formal assessment
morphemes