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CSET Subtest English
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Subjects
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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. Human brains are structured to make sense of language that belongs to specifically wordly language
language acquisition device
syntax
literacy
fast mapping
2. Sentences that have two clauses that could be independent but are connected by a conjunction.
Milestones of language acquistion/seven years to adulthood
compound sentences
paragraph
reading
3. The study of the way sounds function in a language
phonology
phonological awareness
high frequency word recognition
spelling
4. When infants and childrne repeat sounds that are reinforced
oral reading inventory
Milestones in Spelling/correct stage
habituation
allegory
5. Early word errors that toddlers make
underextensions
alphabetic principle
lyrical
phonemes
6. Two letters that make one speech sound - like 'th' or 'sh'
bandwagon effect
Milestones in Spelling/pre - communicative
Milestones of language acquistion/one to two years
digraph
7. The argument that the human brain contains a limited set of rules for organizing language. In turn - there is an assumption that all languages have a common structural basis.
Milestones of language acquistion/one to two years
universal grammar
concluding sentence
spelling inventory
8. Story that is short enough to be read in a single sitting - anything longer than that is a novel or any shorter is a novella
short story
simile
non - fiction
overgeneralization
9. Cooing to babbling
allegory
Milestones of language acquistion/birth to one year
compound sentences
language acquisition device
10. Sound sequences that convey meanings like the words 'bat' and 'rat'
high frequency word recognition
Milestones in Spelling/semi - phonetic stage
morphemes
allegory
11. 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'
phonology
simile
high frequency word recognition
Milestones in Spelling/phonetic stage
12. When children begin to use past tenses and plurals in speeches
habituation
phonology
over - regularizations
mind map
13. What the paragraph is all about - usually the first sentence
personification
language acquisition device
topic sentence
appositive
14. Knows about books and that books tell stories
simile
brainstorming
literacy
concepts about print
15. The idea that the written language represents that sounds of spoken languages
archetypes
alphabetic principle
dyslexia
alphabet knowledge
16. Language that does not literally mean what it says - like the 'black bat night has flown the coop'
Milestones in Reading/milddle to late alphabetic
metacognitive approach
mind map
figurative language
17. The ability to connect two letters together - also known as 'sounding out'
concepts of print
biography
syntax
blending
18. The idea of stereotyping - don't trust someone over thirty
overgeneralization
Milestones in Spelling/pre - communicative
universal grammar
'r - controlled'
19. 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
misplaced modifier
reading
non - fiction
begging the question
20. Models of patterns recognizable for their characteristics like the wicked stepmother
archetypes
allegory
Milestones in Spelling/transitional stage
metalinguistic awareness
21. Can be defined by its agenda and purpose
Child directed speech
faulty logic
personification
pursuasive writing and speech
22. 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
false casality
overgeneralization
second language acuqisition
Milestones in Spelling/correct stage
23. Awareness that language is something that can be mastered
metalinguistic awareness
Milestones in Spelling/phonetic stage
satire
second language acuqisition
24. An attack launched against a person and the person's position - 'the candidate is a cowardly man'
universal grammar
diphthong
ad hominem
concepts about print
25. The act of posting the final work - good writing should be shared and celebrated
publication
lyrical
over - regularizations
digraph
26. Works that are invented by the writer
fiction
zone of proximal development
brainstorming
short story
27. A blending of vowel words like 'ou' in 'out
satire
metalinguistic awareness
high frequency word recognition
diphthong
28. 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'
Milestones in Spelling/semi - phonetic stage
bandwagon effect
squinting modifier
pragmatics
29. The stage in which a child learns how to spell a word correctly by memory
pragmatics
prewriting
Milestones in Spelling/correct stage
squinting modifier
30. Through spelling tests - teachers can determine the spelling stage that a student is at
morphemes
Milestones of language acquistion/birth to one year
spelling inventory
Milestones in Reading/milddle to late alphabetic
31. Graded passages that show at what level a student can read at
oral reading inventory
satire
publication
formal assessment
32. The phase in which a reader looks over punctuation and spelling and grammatical correctness -
concluding sentence
phonemes
Milestones in Spelling/transitional stage
revision and editing
33. A test that evaluates how well the learning has come along
'r - controlled'
short story
formal assessment
dangling modifiers
34. Spelling has been traditionally taught through memorization but phonemic awareness may be the key to improving spelling in its five stages of development
personification
simile
ad hominem
spelling
35. Attributing human qualities to a non - human animal or object
Milestones of language acquistion/one to two years
formal assessment
personification
over - regularizations
36. Works that have happened in real life. usually with a purpose and especially to inform
myth
non - fiction
Milestones in Spelling/semi - phonetic stage
publication
37. The social - physical and cultural backgrounds that affect how language is learned
semantics
syntax
pragmatics
mind map
38. A story that was used to make sense of the world - like a story about a higher power
myth
short story
Milestones of language acquistion/birth to one year
Milestones of language acquistion/five to seven years
39. Occurs grades two to three: children can read larger words in print and accuracy and speed in reading are stressed
Milestones in Reading/ornographic
false casality
myth
topic sentence
40. Decoding and creating written words - using proper spelling - also includes the ability to listen - speak - read - and write and obtain and retrieve information
pragmatics
literacy
second language acuqisition
zone of proximal development
41. Children with low phonological awareness who also have trouble blending speech sounds and segmenting
non - fiction
autobiography
myth
dyslexia
42. A reference to something outside a work of literature - like to a literary event - person or work
formal assessment
alphabet knowledge
allusion
fast mapping
43. The act of transforming one thing into another in a story
fast mapping
metaphor
autobiography
Milestones in Spelling/semi - phonetic stage
44. A technique of pre - writing in which the writer writes any ideas without limit
mind map
simile
topic sentence
brainstorming
45. An assumption without argument - Because I always tell the truth - I am not lying to you now.
first draft
Milestones in Reading/pre - alphabetic
begging the question
dangling modifiers
46. When a vowel is combined with an 'r' like 'or' or 'ur'
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47. When children realize that letters represent sounds - may know only a few letters in the alphabet
formal assessment
Milestones in Spelling/pre - communicative
Milestones in Spelling/correct stage
Milestones in Reading/milddle to late alphabetic
48. The realization that occurs in kindergarten that words should be read from left to right
concepts of print
Milestones of language acquistion/eighteen months to thirty months
Milestones of language acquistion/five to seven years
myth
49. Holophrastic speech (one word utters like ball)
mind map
Milestones of language acquistion/one to two years
figurative language
Milestones in Reading/pre - alphabetic
50. Increasing fluency. An elementary student acquires 12 words daily!
myth
blending
Milestones of language acquistion/seven years to adulthood
faulty logic