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CSET Subtest English

Subjects : cset, english
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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. Sound sequences that convey meanings like the words 'bat' and 'rat'






2. When children begin to use past tenses and plurals in speeches






3. A technique of pre - writing in which the writer writes any ideas without limit






4. Cooing to babbling






5. Spelling has been traditionally taught through memorization but phonemic awareness may be the key to improving spelling in its five stages of development






6. Treating two or more coincidences as if one caused the other 'Martin Luther King's birth caused the civil rights march'






7. When children realize that letters represent sounds - may know only a few letters in the alphabet






8. The idea that the written language represents that sounds of spoken languages






9. When a vowel is combined with an 'r' like 'or' or 'ur'


10. Children with low phonological awareness who also have trouble blending speech sounds and segmenting






11. A story that odriginated and deeloped over time and was passed on from generations to generations






12. Intermediate language fluency






13. Models of patterns recognizable for their characteristics like the wicked stepmother






14. An author's account of their life






15. Emergent speech/grammar explosion






16. Refcognizes word recognition out of context






17. A story that was used to make sense of the world - like a story about a higher power






18. Understanding the fact that words are comprised of sounds known as phonemes






19. 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'






20. A write - up of the essay that gets every idea down on the sheet of opaper






21. Written representation of a 'phoneme' (the letter 'b' or 'p')






22. An accurate history ofa single person






23. Sounds that signal different meanings like'b' and 't'






24. A story that exposes humorously the foibles - vices and follies of a group or a system






25. The realization that occurs in kindergarten that words should be read from left to right






26. When a young child can use the context to quickly arrive to the understanding of a word's meaning






27. A group of sentences based on a similar topic






28. What the paragraph is all about - usually the first sentence






29. Occurs before kindergarten in which text progresses left to right






30. An opinion that is disgiuised as a fact






31. Human brains are structured to make sense of language that belongs to specifically wordly language






32. A sentence that is often the last or next - to - last sentence and is the least essential in the paragraph






33. The study in which the ways words - sentences and sounds are used to convey language aka VOCABULARY






34. The act of posting the final work - good writing should be shared and celebrated






35. The comparison of two different objects using the word 'like' or 'as'






36. Through spelling tests - teachers can determine the spelling stage that a student is at






37. The study of word structures based on the prefixes and suffixes that the words come from






38. Language that does not literally mean what it says - like the 'black bat night has flown the coop'






39. The phase in which a reader looks over punctuation and spelling and grammatical correctness -






40. A noun - or noun phrase - that names the noun next to it - like 'The insect - a cockroach....'






41. A blending of vowel words like 'ou' in 'out






42. Early word errors that toddlers make






43. The ability to read with the appropriate speed and intonation






44. Two letters that make one speech sound - like 'th' or 'sh'






45. The idea of stereotyping - don't trust someone over thirty






46. 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






47. Holophrastic speech (one word utters like ball)






48. Sentence structure - which is noun - verb and adjective






49. A reference to something outside a work of literature - like to a literary event - person or work






50. The act to write dow nany idea as they come without regard to structure or grammar