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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. Emergent speech/grammar explosion
Milestones of language acquistion/two to five years
satire
compound sentences
alphabetic principle
2. When a young child can use the context to quickly arrive to the understanding of a word's meaning
alphabetic principle
Milestones of language acquistion/one to two years
fast mapping
personification
3. The ability to read with the appropriate speed and intonation
spelling inventory
morphemes
fluency
short story
4. Intermediate language fluency
Milestones of language acquistion/five to seven years
parody
diphthong
brainstorming
5. 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'
overgeneralization
revision and editing
brainstorming
Milestones in Spelling/phonetic stage
6. Through spelling tests - teachers can determine the spelling stage that a student is at
formal assessment
fast mapping
spelling inventory
concepts about print
7. The realization that occurs in kindergarten that words should be read from left to right
fluency
parody
concepts of print
first draft
8. A combination of opposites - like 'feather of lead'
blending
spelling inventory
oxymoron
diphthong
9. The idea of stereotyping - don't trust someone over thirty
overgeneralization
tales
underextensions
lyrical
10. A story that was used to make sense of the world - like a story about a higher power
spelling inventory
satire
Milestones in Spelling/pre - communicative
myth
11. Occurs in grades 1 to 2: vowels are included
Milestones in Reading/milddle to late alphabetic
tales
formal assessment
paragraph
12. A noun - or noun phrase - that names the noun next to it - like 'The insect - a cockroach....'
spelling inventory
brainstorming
overgeneralization
appositive
13. Increasing fluency. An elementary student acquires 12 words daily!
informal assessment
Milestones of language acquistion/seven years to adulthood
satire
universal grammar
14. An accurate history ofa single person
body sentence
biography
alphabetic principle
oral reading inventory
15. A humorous form that mimics the styles of another work - like song parodies
mind map
Milestones of language acquistion/birth to one year
lyrical
parody
16. Attributing human qualities to a non - human animal or object
syntax
publication
metacognitive approach
personification
17. Cooing to babbling
oral reading inventory
Milestones of language acquistion/birth to one year
metacognitive approach
phonemes
18. The stage in which a child learns how to spell a word correctly by memory
Milestones in Spelling/correct stage
phonology
Milestones of language acquistion/eighteen months to thirty months
lyrical
19. Models of patterns recognizable for their characteristics like the wicked stepmother
metalinguistic awareness
topic sentence
archetypes
publication
20. 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
morphology
Milestones in Reading/milddle to late alphabetic
reading
begging the question
21. When infants and childrne repeat sounds that are reinforced
prewriting
paragraph
phonemes
habituation
22. Ongoing classroom activities focused on individual achievements
informal assessment
prewriting
dyslexia
morphemes
23. When children begin to use past tenses and plurals in speeches
metacognitive approach
morphemes
over - regularizations
zone of proximal development
24. During initial instruction - children start to realize that the letter - sound correspondence is a principal...may spell words with a single letter like 'u' instead of 'you'
figurative language
metacognitive approach
mind map
Milestones in Spelling/semi - phonetic stage
25. Holophrastic speech (one word utters like ball)
metaphor
digraph
language acquisition device
Milestones of language acquistion/one to two years
26. Occurs in grades k to 1: letters are conenected tro sounds
blending
Milestones in Reading/early alphabetic
Milestones of language acquistion/eighteen months to thirty months
universal grammar
27. The ability to connect two letters together - also known as 'sounding out'
zone of proximal development
oxymoron
habituation
blending
28. A group of sentences based on a similar topic
archetypes
informal assessment
metacognitive approach
paragraph
29. 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
formal assessment
second language acuqisition
lyrical
tales
30. Early word errors that toddlers make
metaphor
underextensions
ad hominem
alphabetic principle
31. An assumption without argument - Because I always tell the truth - I am not lying to you now.
Milestones of language acquistion/birth to one year
false casality
begging the question
oral reading inventory
32. A story that exposes humorously the foibles - vices and follies of a group or a system
first draft
myth
satire
metacognitive approach
33. The act of transforming one thing into another in a story
fluency
spelling inventory
phonemes
metaphor
34. Sentence structure - which is noun - verb and adjective
Milestones of language acquistion/five to seven years
syntax
Milestones in Spelling/phonetic stage
metaphor
35. The study of the way sounds function in a language
archetypes
phonological awareness
phonology
parody
36. Supporting details - analysis and eividence expanding on the topic sentence
body sentence
diphthong
oral reading inventory
morphemes
37. Decoding and creating written words - using proper spelling - also includes the ability to listen - speak - read - and write and obtain and retrieve information
begging the question
blending
phonology
literacy
38. Spelling has been traditionally taught through memorization but phonemic awareness may be the key to improving spelling in its five stages of development
spelling
Milestones in Spelling/transitional stage
alphabetic principle
dangling modifiers
39. Awareness that language is something that can be mastered
Milestones of language acquistion/two to five years
metalinguistic awareness
Milestones of language acquistion/birth to one year
blending
40. Speller moves from a dependence on sound and phonology to use of visual memory and understanding of word structure - might write 'highed' instead of 'hide'- spelling words correctly even if they aren't the right words that should be spelled
revision and editing
formal assessment
compound sentences
Milestones in Spelling/transitional stage
41. Idenetify letters and can form letters
Milestones in Reading/ornographic
oxymoron
alphabet knowledge
tales
42. 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
high frequency word recognition
Milestones of language acquistion/eighteen months to thirty months
zone of proximal development
diphthong
43. What the paragraph is all about - usually the first sentence
formal assessment
Milestones in Spelling/pre - communicative
'r - controlled'
topic sentence
44. A technique of pre - writing in which the writer writes any ideas without limit
brainstorming
faulty logic
Milestones in Spelling/phonetic stage
topic sentence
45. 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
autobiography
mind map
concluding sentence
prewriting
46. Sounds that signal different meanings like'b' and 't'
myth
phonemes
Milestones in Reading/ornographic
concepts of print
47. An attack launched against a person and the person's position - 'the candidate is a cowardly man'
Milestones in Reading/ornographic
Milestones of language acquistion/eighteen months to thirty months
ad hominem
non - fiction
48. Children with low phonological awareness who also have trouble blending speech sounds and segmenting
publication
morphology
dyslexia
Milestones of language acquistion/birth to one year
49. A modifier that could modify either two phrases before it. The executive entering the office hurriedly made the decision.affective filter - aka writer's block: a condition that leavesstudents feeling insecure about writing
tales
universal grammar
figurative language
squinting modifier
50. A reference to something outside a work of literature - like to a literary event - person or work
allusion
squinting modifier
metacognitive approach
oral reading inventory