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CSET Subtest English
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Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. The study of the way sounds function in a language
mind map
phonology
universal grammar
Milestones of language acquistion/birth to one year
2. When a vowel is combined with an 'r' like 'or' or 'ur'
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3. Ongoing classroom activities focused on individual achievements
free - writing
squinting modifier
informal assessment
grapheme
4. When children realize that letters represent sounds - may know only a few letters in the alphabet
blending
Milestones in Spelling/pre - communicative
personification
brainstorming
5. Sentence structure - which is noun - verb and adjective
Milestones in Spelling/semi - phonetic stage
misplaced modifier
first draft
syntax
6. Songlike; characterized by emotion - subjectivity and imagination
ad hominem
lyrical
free - writing
begging the question
7. Works that have happened in real life. usually with a purpose and especially to inform
non - fiction
personification
dangling modifiers
concepts about print
8. The technqiue designed to help the writer develop and organize their thoughts
prewriting
metacognitive approach
dyslexia
concepts about print
9. Works that are invented by the writer
fiction
squinting modifier
habituation
appositive
10. Sounds that signal different meanings like'b' and 't'
phonemes
Milestones in Reading/ornographic
archetypes
compound sentences
11. Occurs before kindergarten in which text progresses left to right
publication
habituation
Milestones in Reading/pre - alphabetic
first draft
12. When infants and childrne repeat sounds that are reinforced
ad hominem
informal assessment
habituation
grapheme
13. Spelling has been traditionally taught through memorization but phonemic awareness may be the key to improving spelling in its five stages of development
spelling
phonemes
literacy
Milestones of language acquistion/birth to one year
14. A blending of vowel words like 'ou' in 'out
Milestones in Reading/milddle to late alphabetic
morphemes
diphthong
morphology
15. 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.
pragmatics
metaphor
alphabetic principle
universal grammar
16. The study in which the ways words - sentences and sounds are used to convey language aka VOCABULARY
revision and editing
spelling
semantics
Milestones of language acquistion/one to two years
17. Occurs in grades k to 1: letters are conenected tro sounds
Milestones in Reading/early alphabetic
biography
Milestones of language acquistion/eighteen months to thirty months
over - regularizations
18. Cooing to babbling
non - fiction
first draft
Milestones in Reading/early alphabetic
Milestones of language acquistion/birth to one year
19. 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
overgeneralization
misplaced modifier
morphemes
second language acuqisition
20. A reference to something outside a work of literature - like to a literary event - person or work
Child directed speech
topic sentence
allusion
begging the question
21. The ability to connect two letters together - also known as 'sounding out'
bandwagon effect
blending
Milestones of language acquistion/eighteen months to thirty months
semantics
22. 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
tales
dyslexia
oral reading inventory
23. Treating two or more coincidences as if one caused the other 'Martin Luther King's birth caused the civil rights march'
squinting modifier
false casality
morphemes
Milestones of language acquistion/eighteen months to thirty months
24. A story that exposes humorously the foibles - vices and follies of a group or a system
dyslexia
satire
Milestones in Reading/early alphabetic
Milestones in Spelling/transitional stage
25. Early word errors that toddlers make
metalinguistic awareness
underextensions
appositive
squinting modifier
26. Skills can increase learning's efficiency and effectiveness
pragmatics
faulty logic
metacognitive approach
Milestones in Spelling/correct stage
27. A write - up of the essay that gets every idea down on the sheet of opaper
Milestones in Reading/pre - alphabetic
dangling modifiers
first draft
bandwagon effect
28. Knows about books and that books tell stories
autobiography
fluency
concepts of print
concepts about print
29. The idea that the written language represents that sounds of spoken languages
ad hominem
phonological awareness
archetypes
alphabetic principle
30. Written representation of a 'phoneme' (the letter 'b' or 'p')
grapheme
allusion
digraph
Milestones in Spelling/phonetic stage
31. Idenetify letters and can form letters
alphabet knowledge
Milestones in Reading/ornographic
Milestones of language acquistion/eighteen months to thirty months
ad hominem
32. Intermediate language fluency
non - fiction
topic sentence
Milestones of language acquistion/five to seven years
zone of proximal development
33. 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
metaphor
non - fiction
squinting modifier
literacy
34. The study of word structures based on the prefixes and suffixes that the words come from
compound sentences
Milestones of language acquistion/one to two years
morphology
concepts of print
35. Adults modify their speech to make it easier for children to learn languages - including sentence structures and repeating key words
dangling modifiers
myth
Child directed speech
Milestones of language acquistion/seven years to adulthood
36. A technique of pre - writing in which the writer writes any ideas without limit
brainstorming
Milestones of language acquistion/one to two years
bandwagon effect
language acquisition device
37. What the paragraph is all about - usually the first sentence
Milestones in Reading/ornographic
topic sentence
diphthong
lyrical
38. Supporting details - analysis and eividence expanding on the topic sentence
allegory
reading
dyslexia
body sentence
39. A combination of opposites - like 'feather of lead'
oxymoron
formal assessment
biography
prewriting
40. Sentences that have two clauses that could be independent but are connected by a conjunction.
Milestones in Spelling/correct stage
archetypes
fast mapping
compound sentences
41. 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
literacy
reading
Milestones in Spelling/correct stage
overgeneralization
42. Telegraphic speech(words without affixes or function words)
Milestones of language acquistion/two to five years
metacognitive approach
Milestones of language acquistion/eighteen months to thirty months
short story
43. Attributing human qualities to a non - human animal or object
prewriting
spelling inventory
personification
compound sentences
44. Sound sequences that convey meanings like the words 'bat' and 'rat'
satire
morphemes
concepts about print
mind map
45. A group of sentences based on a similar topic
diphthong
Milestones in Spelling/pre - communicative
paragraph
blending
46. The idea of stereotyping - don't trust someone over thirty
alphabetic principle
personification
overgeneralization
reading
47. Refcognizes word recognition out of context
Milestones in Reading/ornographic
Milestones of language acquistion/eighteen months to thirty months
high frequency word recognition
autobiography
48. 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
misplaced modifier
formal assessment
short story
informal assessment
49. Increasing fluency. An elementary student acquires 12 words daily!
spelling inventory
metaphor
underextensions
Milestones of language acquistion/seven years to adulthood
50. A noun - or noun phrase - that names the noun next to it - like 'The insect - a cockroach....'
pursuasive writing and speech
informal assessment
appositive
autobiography
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