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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 noun - or noun phrase - that names the noun next to it - like 'The insect - a cockroach....'
fluency
red herring
oral reading inventory
appositive
2. A reference to something outside a work of literature - like to a literary event - person or work
morphology
first draft
allusion
literacy
3. The ability to connect two letters together - also known as 'sounding out'
publication
blending
metaphor
allusion
4. Skills can increase learning's efficiency and effectiveness
Milestones of language acquistion/five to seven years
metacognitive approach
mind map
alphabetic principle
5. Idenetify letters and can form letters
oxymoron
short story
alphabet knowledge
Milestones in Spelling/semi - phonetic stage
6. Telegraphic speech(words without affixes or function words)
Milestones in Reading/milddle to late alphabetic
phonological awareness
fast mapping
Milestones of language acquistion/eighteen months to thirty months
7. 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
over - regularizations
Milestones in Reading/ornographic
Milestones in Spelling/correct stage
Milestones in Spelling/transitional stage
8. Knows about books and that books tell stories
alphabet knowledge
Milestones of language acquistion/birth to one year
concepts about print
Milestones in Spelling/transitional stage
9. 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
digraph
Milestones of language acquistion/two to five years
mind map
10. An accurate history ofa single person
formal assessment
dyslexia
biography
lyrical
11. Emergent speech/grammar explosion
Milestones of language acquistion/two to five years
myth
metacognitive approach
spelling inventory
12. Occurs before kindergarten in which text progresses left to right
Milestones in Reading/pre - alphabetic
spelling
body sentence
pursuasive writing and speech
13. 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'
universal grammar
myth
Milestones in Spelling/phonetic stage
fluency
14. Refcognizes word recognition out of context
oral reading inventory
high frequency word recognition
Milestones in Spelling/semi - phonetic stage
dangling modifiers
15. 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
spelling inventory
false casality
short story
Milestones of language acquistion/eighteen months to thirty months
16. When children begin to use past tenses and plurals in speeches
over - regularizations
reading
spelling inventory
phonemes
17. The comparison of two different objects using the word 'like' or 'as'
simile
personification
false casality
oxymoron
18. When children realize that letters represent sounds - may know only a few letters in the alphabet
oxymoron
Milestones in Spelling/pre - communicative
satire
alphabet knowledge
19. A blending of vowel words like 'ou' in 'out
zone of proximal development
lyrical
publication
diphthong
20. Human brains are structured to make sense of language that belongs to specifically wordly language
language acquisition device
informal assessment
first draft
literacy
21. 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
publication
pragmatics
'r - controlled'
second language acuqisition
22. Sound sequences that convey meanings like the words 'bat' and 'rat'
mind map
syntax
concepts of print
morphemes
23. A story that was used to make sense of the world - like a story about a higher power
grapheme
figurative language
prewriting
myth
24. A technique of pre - writing in which the writer writes any ideas without limit
spelling inventory
fiction
brainstorming
lyrical
25. A sentence that is often the last or next - to - last sentence and is the least essential in the paragraph
concluding sentence
literacy
habituation
spelling inventory
26. Awareness that language is something that can be mastered
spelling inventory
short story
allusion
metalinguistic awareness
27. The act of transforming one thing into another in a story
satire
Milestones in Reading/early alphabetic
metaphor
body sentence
28. Intermediate language fluency
Milestones of language acquistion/five to seven years
faulty logic
pursuasive writing and speech
universal grammar
29. A combination of opposites - like 'feather of lead'
oxymoron
formal assessment
Milestones in Spelling/pre - communicative
overgeneralization
30. The act to write dow nany idea as they come without regard to structure or grammar
tales
free - writing
Milestones of language acquistion/seven years to adulthood
Milestones in Spelling/phonetic stage
31. An irrelevant point used to distract from an argument at hand
allegory
habituation
revision and editing
red herring
32. The technqiue designed to help the writer develop and organize their thoughts
prewriting
body sentence
bandwagon effect
diphthong
33. Sentence structure - which is noun - verb and adjective
Milestones of language acquistion/eighteen months to thirty months
Milestones in Spelling/phonetic stage
syntax
concluding sentence
34. When a young child can use the context to quickly arrive to the understanding of a word's meaning
zone of proximal development
pursuasive writing and speech
false casality
fast mapping
35. An attack launched against a person and the person's position - 'the candidate is a cowardly man'
formal assessment
ad hominem
begging the question
allegory
36. Models of patterns recognizable for their characteristics like the wicked stepmother
pragmatics
underextensions
false casality
archetypes
37. Decoding and creating written words - using proper spelling - also includes the ability to listen - speak - read - and write and obtain and retrieve information
second language acuqisition
Milestones in Spelling/correct stage
squinting modifier
literacy
38. An author's account of their life
autobiography
spelling inventory
Milestones in Reading/ornographic
brainstorming
39. The study of the way sounds function in a language
concepts about print
phonology
oral reading inventory
Milestones in Spelling/pre - communicative
40. A group of sentences based on a similar topic
paragraph
Milestones of language acquistion/seven years to adulthood
figurative language
body sentence
41. Understanding the fact that words are comprised of sounds known as phonemes
figurative language
allegory
language acquisition device
phonological awareness
42. Adults modify their speech to make it easier for children to learn languages - including sentence structures and repeating key words
Child directed speech
universal grammar
Milestones of language acquistion/two to five years
spelling inventory
43. Increasing fluency. An elementary student acquires 12 words daily!
Milestones of language acquistion/seven years to adulthood
language acquisition device
squinting modifier
autobiography
44. 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
personification
oral reading inventory
squinting modifier
misplaced modifier
45. Through spelling tests - teachers can determine the spelling stage that a student is at
grapheme
spelling inventory
fiction
fast mapping
46. 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/eighteen months to thirty months
universal grammar
myth
Milestones of language acquistion/five to seven years
47. Language that does not literally mean what it says - like the 'black bat night has flown the coop'
figurative language
'r - controlled'
fluency
allusion
48. The realization that occurs in kindergarten that words should be read from left to right
personification
Milestones of language acquistion/birth to one year
concepts of print
appositive
49. Supporting details - analysis and eividence expanding on the topic sentence
concepts about print
simile
body sentence
digraph
50. Being convineced by a position's popularity
compound sentences
spelling
simile
bandwagon effect