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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. An attack launched against a person and the person's position - 'the candidate is a cowardly man'
topic sentence
concepts about print
ad hominem
phonemes
2. The stage in which a child learns how to spell a word correctly by memory
universal grammar
biography
myth
Milestones in Spelling/correct stage
3. Graded passages that show at what level a student can read at
concepts about print
oral reading inventory
Milestones in Reading/milddle to late alphabetic
language acquisition device
4. A test that evaluates how well the learning has come along
prewriting
squinting modifier
topic sentence
formal assessment
5. Treating two or more coincidences as if one caused the other 'Martin Luther King's birth caused the civil rights march'
phonology
Milestones in Reading/milddle to late alphabetic
over - regularizations
false casality
6. When a young child can use the context to quickly arrive to the understanding of a word's meaning
language acquisition device
free - writing
fast mapping
syntax
7. The social - physical and cultural backgrounds that affect how language is learned
metacognitive approach
pragmatics
literacy
metalinguistic awareness
8. The study of word structures based on the prefixes and suffixes that the words come from
morphemes
paragraph
morphology
semantics
9. Spelling has been traditionally taught through memorization but phonemic awareness may be the key to improving spelling in its five stages of development
formal assessment
Milestones of language acquistion/seven years to adulthood
spelling
blending
10. Works that are invented by the writer
phonological awareness
reading
satire
fiction
11. Children with low phonological awareness who also have trouble blending speech sounds and segmenting
high frequency word recognition
dyslexia
Milestones of language acquistion/eighteen months to thirty months
Milestones of language acquistion/seven years to adulthood
12. A combination of opposites - like 'feather of lead'
oxymoron
bandwagon effect
Milestones in Spelling/correct stage
lyrical
13. A group of sentences based on a similar topic
paragraph
fast mapping
biography
Milestones of language acquistion/five to seven years
14. An extended metaphor that is carried through an entire narrative like 'Everyman'
Milestones in Spelling/transitional stage
mind map
allegory
brainstorming
15. When children realize that letters represent sounds - may know only a few letters in the alphabet
Milestones in Spelling/pre - communicative
autobiography
metacognitive approach
fiction
16. The ability to read with the appropriate speed and intonation
compound sentences
second language acuqisition
language acquisition device
fluency
17. Ongoing classroom activities focused on individual achievements
informal assessment
Milestones of language acquistion/two to five years
oxymoron
Milestones in Spelling/phonetic stage
18. Awareness that language is something that can be mastered
allusion
metalinguistic awareness
phonemes
ad hominem
19. A story that exposes humorously the foibles - vices and follies of a group or a system
ad hominem
autobiography
Milestones in Reading/milddle to late alphabetic
satire
20. Sentences that have two clauses that could be independent but are connected by a conjunction.
false casality
allusion
spelling inventory
compound sentences
21. Being convineced by a position's popularity
faulty logic
blending
short story
bandwagon effect
22. Knows about books and that books tell stories
concepts about print
metalinguistic awareness
phonemes
dyslexia
23. The technqiue designed to help the writer develop and organize their thoughts
Milestones in Reading/milddle to late alphabetic
diphthong
alphabet knowledge
prewriting
24. Intermediate language fluency
Milestones of language acquistion/five to seven years
metaphor
'r - controlled'
concluding sentence
25. An irrelevant point used to distract from an argument at hand
red herring
metaphor
overgeneralization
allegory
26. Through spelling tests - teachers can determine the spelling stage that a student is at
tales
spelling inventory
concepts of print
non - fiction
27. The ability to connect two letters together - also known as 'sounding out'
blending
myth
alphabetic principle
dyslexia
28. A noun - or noun phrase - that names the noun next to it - like 'The insect - a cockroach....'
fiction
semantics
pragmatics
appositive
29. 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'
Milestones in Spelling/phonetic stage
allegory
pragmatics
misplaced modifier
30. Cooing to babbling
spelling inventory
Milestones of language acquistion/birth to one year
compound sentences
semantics
31. The realization that occurs in kindergarten that words should be read from left to right
concepts of print
prewriting
simile
Child directed speech
32. A story that odriginated and deeloped over time and was passed on from generations to generations
tales
concluding sentence
appositive
universal grammar
33. A technique of pre - writing in which the writer writes any ideas without limit
Milestones of language acquistion/one to two years
archetypes
brainstorming
ad hominem
34. Refcognizes word recognition out of context
high frequency word recognition
figurative language
biography
overgeneralization
35. 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
over - regularizations
reading
Milestones in Spelling/transitional stage
high frequency word recognition
36. 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'
non - fiction
phonological awareness
Milestones in Spelling/semi - phonetic stage
begging the question
37. Can be defined by its agenda and purpose
pursuasive writing and speech
faulty logic
over - regularizations
alphabetic principle
38. The phase in which a reader looks over punctuation and spelling and grammatical correctness -
simile
syntax
revision and editing
paragraph
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
Milestones in Spelling/transitional stage
Milestones of language acquistion/two to five years
misplaced modifier
blending
40. A reference to something outside a work of literature - like to a literary event - person or work
zone of proximal development
allusion
phonology
phonological awareness
41. The act of posting the final work - good writing should be shared and celebrated
oral reading inventory
zone of proximal development
Milestones in Spelling/transitional stage
publication
42. Sentence structure - which is noun - verb and adjective
blending
syntax
misplaced modifier
Milestones in Reading/pre - alphabetic
43. Early word errors that toddlers make
simile
informal assessment
underextensions
literacy
44. An accurate history ofa single person
zone of proximal development
universal grammar
biography
faulty logic
45. A sentence that is often the last or next - to - last sentence and is the least essential in the paragraph
Milestones of language acquistion/eighteen months to thirty months
parody
concluding sentence
phonological awareness
46. Occurs grades two to three: children can read larger words in print and accuracy and speed in reading are stressed
diphthong
Milestones in Reading/ornographic
biography
squinting modifier
47. Human brains are structured to make sense of language that belongs to specifically wordly language
literacy
language acquisition device
autobiography
false casality
48. 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
concepts of print
figurative language
mind map
over - regularizations
49. Written representation of a 'phoneme' (the letter 'b' or 'p')
concluding sentence
Milestones in Reading/milddle to late alphabetic
personification
grapheme
50. 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.
mind map
universal grammar
pursuasive writing and speech
fast mapping