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CSET Subtest English
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Subjects
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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.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
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. Works that are invented by the writer
overgeneralization
free - writing
informal assessment
fiction
2. A group of sentences based on a similar topic
spelling
alphabet knowledge
paragraph
topic sentence
3. Sounds that signal different meanings like'b' and 't'
zone of proximal development
phonemes
figurative language
phonology
4. Children with low phonological awareness who also have trouble blending speech sounds and segmenting
paragraph
figurative language
phonological awareness
dyslexia
5. An extended metaphor that is carried through an entire narrative like 'Everyman'
allegory
red herring
Milestones in Reading/ornographic
grapheme
6. Awareness that language is something that can be mastered
metalinguistic awareness
ad hominem
alphabet knowledge
Milestones in Spelling/pre - communicative
7. Knows about books and that books tell stories
autobiography
dangling modifiers
concepts about print
mind map
8. Being convineced by a position's popularity
underextensions
bandwagon effect
phonology
short story
9. An accurate history ofa single person
reading
biography
simile
Milestones of language acquistion/birth to one year
10. An opinion that is disgiuised as a fact
fast mapping
language acquisition device
Milestones in Reading/pre - alphabetic
faulty logic
11. 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
alphabetic principle
satire
mind map
12. Sound sequences that convey meanings like the words 'bat' and 'rat'
bandwagon effect
oral reading inventory
morphemes
spelling
13. A noun - or noun phrase - that names the noun next to it - like 'The insect - a cockroach....'
pursuasive writing and speech
appositive
fast mapping
archetypes
14. A humorous form that mimics the styles of another work - like song parodies
parody
semantics
oxymoron
revision and editing
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
short story
informal assessment
alphabetic principle
allusion
16. An author's account of their life
Milestones of language acquistion/eighteen months to thirty months
dyslexia
grapheme
autobiography
17. 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.
reading
universal grammar
underextensions
alphabetic principle
18. When infants and childrne repeat sounds that are reinforced
high frequency word recognition
personification
habituation
morphemes
19. Holophrastic speech (one word utters like ball)
topic sentence
tales
Milestones of language acquistion/one to two years
digraph
20. The stage in which a child learns how to spell a word correctly by memory
misplaced modifier
Milestones in Spelling/phonetic stage
Milestones in Spelling/correct stage
reading
21. Occurs in grades k to 1: letters are conenected tro sounds
habituation
pragmatics
mind map
Milestones in Reading/early alphabetic
22. A test that evaluates how well the learning has come along
ad hominem
alphabet knowledge
formal assessment
zone of proximal development
23. The act of posting the final work - good writing should be shared and celebrated
publication
free - writing
oral reading inventory
Milestones of language acquistion/seven years to adulthood
24. Understanding the fact that words are comprised of sounds known as phonemes
phonological awareness
blending
brainstorming
concluding sentence
25. Two letters that make one speech sound - like 'th' or 'sh'
literacy
underextensions
alphabet knowledge
digraph
26. The study of word structures based on the prefixes and suffixes that the words come from
Milestones in Spelling/semi - phonetic stage
morphology
first draft
parody
27. Can be defined by its agenda and purpose
pursuasive writing and speech
myth
morphology
blending
28. Decoding and creating written words - using proper spelling - also includes the ability to listen - speak - read - and write and obtain and retrieve information
literacy
non - fiction
tales
Milestones in Spelling/correct stage
29. Occurs grades two to three: children can read larger words in print and accuracy and speed in reading are stressed
Milestones in Reading/ornographic
personification
autobiography
Milestones in Spelling/semi - phonetic stage
30. Language that does not literally mean what it says - like the 'black bat night has flown the coop'
topic sentence
phonological awareness
Milestones in Spelling/phonetic stage
figurative language
31. Intermediate language fluency
dyslexia
Milestones of language acquistion/seven years to adulthood
zone of proximal development
Milestones of language acquistion/five to seven years
32. When a young child can use the context to quickly arrive to the understanding of a word's meaning
'r - controlled'
tales
fast mapping
personification
33. Spelling has been traditionally taught through memorization but phonemic awareness may be the key to improving spelling in its five stages of development
spelling
Milestones in Spelling/phonetic stage
alphabet knowledge
false casality
34. The technqiue designed to help the writer develop and organize their thoughts
misplaced modifier
prewriting
phonology
alphabet knowledge
35. 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
Milestones in Reading/ornographic
concepts of print
squinting modifier
allegory
36. The act to write dow nany idea as they come without regard to structure or grammar
free - writing
Child directed speech
metaphor
language acquisition device
37. The realization that occurs in kindergarten that words should be read from left to right
Milestones of language acquistion/eighteen months to thirty months
concepts of print
faulty logic
alphabet knowledge
38. Telegraphic speech(words without affixes or function words)
Milestones of language acquistion/eighteen months to thirty months
bandwagon effect
underextensions
zone of proximal development
39. The social - physical and cultural backgrounds that affect how language is learned
satire
concepts of print
metalinguistic awareness
pragmatics
40. When children begin to use past tenses and plurals in speeches
over - regularizations
prewriting
phonology
fast mapping
41. Emergent speech/grammar explosion
high frequency word recognition
free - writing
Milestones of language acquistion/two to five years
morphology
42. A modifier that is placed to close to a word that it should not modify
squinting modifier
spelling
misplaced modifier
fluency
43. A story that exposes humorously the foibles - vices and follies of a group or a system
Milestones in Spelling/pre - communicative
concepts about print
satire
appositive
44. Cooing to babbling
grapheme
pursuasive writing and speech
first draft
Milestones of language acquistion/birth to one year
45. Skills can increase learning's efficiency and effectiveness
allusion
autobiography
metacognitive approach
dangling modifiers
46. When children realize that letters represent sounds - may know only a few letters in the alphabet
phonological awareness
Milestones in Spelling/phonetic stage
Milestones in Spelling/pre - communicative
allegory
47. Ongoing classroom activities focused on individual achievements
informal assessment
Milestones in Reading/early alphabetic
Milestones in Spelling/pre - communicative
Milestones of language acquistion/two to five years
48. A sentence that is often the last or next - to - last sentence and is the least essential in the paragraph
faulty logic
concluding sentence
concepts of print
allegory
49. 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'
concepts about print
Milestones in Spelling/semi - phonetic stage
underextensions
autobiography
50. The comparison of two different objects using the word 'like' or 'as'
Milestones of language acquistion/two to five years
simile
formal assessment
autobiography