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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 story that odriginated and deeloped over time and was passed on from generations to generations
tales
archetypes
morphemes
language acquisition device
2. A modifier that does not logically refer tothe statement immediately following it
false casality
formal assessment
dangling modifiers
oxymoron
3. The ability to connect two letters together - also known as 'sounding out'
Milestones of language acquistion/five to seven years
Milestones in Spelling/correct stage
Milestones in Reading/early alphabetic
blending
4. The phase in which a reader looks over punctuation and spelling and grammatical correctness -
personification
revision and editing
figurative language
formal assessment
5. Songlike; characterized by emotion - subjectivity and imagination
lyrical
morphemes
biography
concluding sentence
6. 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
semantics
squinting modifier
phonological awareness
concepts of print
7. An irrelevant point used to distract from an argument at hand
autobiography
literacy
red herring
diphthong
8. Sound sequences that convey meanings like the words 'bat' and 'rat'
allusion
morphemes
Milestones of language acquistion/two to five years
satire
9. An accurate history ofa single person
pragmatics
Milestones in Reading/milddle to late alphabetic
biography
concluding sentence
10. Attributing human qualities to a non - human animal or object
alphabet knowledge
oxymoron
Milestones of language acquistion/two to five years
personification
11. Works that are invented by the writer
fiction
phonemes
metaphor
short story
12. When a young child can use the context to quickly arrive to the understanding of a word's meaning
spelling
fast mapping
personification
simile
13. Refcognizes word recognition out of context
faulty logic
high frequency word recognition
Milestones of language acquistion/birth to one year
literacy
14. A combination of opposites - like 'feather of lead'
Milestones in Reading/early alphabetic
metalinguistic awareness
oxymoron
spelling
15. The idea of stereotyping - don't trust someone over thirty
mind map
overgeneralization
concepts of print
second language acuqisition
16. Emergent speech/grammar explosion
Milestones of language acquistion/two to five years
literacy
phonemes
allegory
17. Sounds that signal different meanings like'b' and 't'
high frequency word recognition
non - fiction
second language acuqisition
phonemes
18. A modifier that is placed to close to a word that it should not modify
personification
mind map
figurative language
misplaced modifier
19. Intermediate language fluency
Milestones of language acquistion/five to seven years
archetypes
zone of proximal development
concepts about print
20. The stage in which a child learns how to spell a word correctly by memory
Milestones of language acquistion/birth to one year
syntax
Milestones in Spelling/correct stage
alphabetic principle
21. A blending of vowel words like 'ou' in 'out
body sentence
diphthong
zone of proximal development
alphabet knowledge
22. Spelling has been traditionally taught through memorization but phonemic awareness may be the key to improving spelling in its five stages of development
spelling
syntax
fast mapping
Milestones in Spelling/pre - communicative
23. The study in which the ways words - sentences and sounds are used to convey language aka VOCABULARY
Milestones of language acquistion/eighteen months to thirty months
body sentence
overgeneralization
semantics
24. The social - physical and cultural backgrounds that affect how language is learned
pragmatics
dyslexia
second language acuqisition
semantics
25. 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.
misplaced modifier
universal grammar
metaphor
habituation
26. A write - up of the essay that gets every idea down on the sheet of opaper
metalinguistic awareness
first draft
brainstorming
Milestones in Reading/pre - alphabetic
27. Graded passages that show at what level a student can read at
oral reading inventory
Milestones in Spelling/pre - communicative
underextensions
Milestones of language acquistion/five to seven years
28. What the paragraph is all about - usually the first sentence
ad hominem
oral reading inventory
Milestones in Spelling/correct stage
topic sentence
29. An assumption without argument - Because I always tell the truth - I am not lying to you now.
dangling modifiers
informal assessment
begging the question
universal grammar
30. Occurs before kindergarten in which text progresses left to right
Milestones in Reading/pre - alphabetic
spelling
parody
archetypes
31. Early word errors that toddlers make
dyslexia
underextensions
syntax
non - fiction
32. Can be defined by its agenda and purpose
spelling inventory
over - regularizations
pursuasive writing and speech
dyslexia
33. Awareness that language is something that can be mastered
metalinguistic awareness
non - fiction
revision and editing
publication
34. When infants and childrne repeat sounds that are reinforced
phonological awareness
habituation
Milestones of language acquistion/eighteen months to thirty months
paragraph
35. The act of posting the final work - good writing should be shared and celebrated
Milestones in Spelling/transitional stage
publication
alphabet knowledge
body sentence
36. 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
mind map
oxymoron
underextensions
habituation
37. Sentence structure - which is noun - verb and adjective
syntax
allegory
oral reading inventory
spelling
38. Treating two or more coincidences as if one caused the other 'Martin Luther King's birth caused the civil rights march'
Milestones of language acquistion/five to seven years
false casality
misplaced modifier
bandwagon effect
39. 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
underextensions
Milestones in Spelling/transitional stage
paragraph
Milestones of language acquistion/seven years to adulthood
40. Children with low phonological awareness who also have trouble blending speech sounds and segmenting
metalinguistic awareness
ad hominem
dyslexia
pursuasive writing and speech
41. Two letters that make one speech sound - like 'th' or 'sh'
Milestones in Reading/ornographic
concepts of print
phonology
digraph
42. When a vowel is combined with an 'r' like 'or' or 'ur'
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43. 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
paragraph
free - writing
lyrical
44. Telegraphic speech(words without affixes or function words)
Milestones of language acquistion/eighteen months to thirty months
language acquisition device
dangling modifiers
formal assessment
45. Understanding the fact that words are comprised of sounds known as phonemes
Milestones of language acquistion/eighteen months to thirty months
phonological awareness
simile
myth
46. Occurs in grades k to 1: letters are conenected tro sounds
lyrical
Milestones in Reading/early alphabetic
bandwagon effect
oral reading inventory
47. Decoding and creating written words - using proper spelling - also includes the ability to listen - speak - read - and write and obtain and retrieve information
topic sentence
oral reading inventory
biography
literacy
48. Knows about books and that books tell stories
concepts about print
semantics
autobiography
faulty logic
49. The technqiue designed to help the writer develop and organize their thoughts
Milestones in Reading/milddle to late alphabetic
myth
false casality
prewriting
50. Written representation of a 'phoneme' (the letter 'b' or 'p')
myth
spelling inventory
red herring
grapheme