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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. Attributing human qualities to a non - human animal or object
Milestones of language acquistion/five to seven years
brainstorming
pursuasive writing and speech
personification
2. A story that odriginated and deeloped over time and was passed on from generations to generations
Milestones of language acquistion/five to seven years
Milestones of language acquistion/one to two years
tales
over - regularizations
3. Spelling has been traditionally taught through memorization but phonemic awareness may be the key to improving spelling in its five stages of development
body sentence
Milestones of language acquistion/eighteen months to thirty months
spelling
parody
4. Supporting details - analysis and eividence expanding on the topic sentence
second language acuqisition
misplaced modifier
morphemes
body sentence
5. A humorous form that mimics the styles of another work - like song parodies
high frequency word recognition
parody
literacy
phonological awareness
6. The comparison of two different objects using the word 'like' or 'as'
digraph
dangling modifiers
misplaced modifier
simile
7. The act of transforming one thing into another in a story
habituation
mind map
metaphor
allusion
8. 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
grapheme
zone of proximal development
syntax
Milestones in Reading/pre - alphabetic
9. When children realize that letters represent sounds - may know only a few letters in the alphabet
pragmatics
Milestones in Spelling/pre - communicative
blending
language acquisition device
10. Can be defined by its agenda and purpose
personification
simile
pursuasive writing and speech
zone of proximal development
11. Holophrastic speech (one word utters like ball)
universal grammar
Milestones of language acquistion/one to two years
phonological awareness
metalinguistic awareness
12. Ongoing classroom activities focused on individual achievements
archetypes
syntax
overgeneralization
informal assessment
13. The phase in which a reader looks over punctuation and spelling and grammatical correctness -
free - writing
spelling
oxymoron
revision and editing
14. Refcognizes word recognition out of context
high frequency word recognition
metaphor
pursuasive writing and speech
literacy
15. The idea of stereotyping - don't trust someone over thirty
tales
overgeneralization
Milestones of language acquistion/eighteen months to thirty months
Milestones in Reading/milddle to late alphabetic
16. A write - up of the essay that gets every idea down on the sheet of opaper
pragmatics
Milestones of language acquistion/eighteen months to thirty months
Milestones in Spelling/pre - communicative
first draft
17. Skills can increase learning's efficiency and effectiveness
fiction
metacognitive approach
syntax
archetypes
18. The act of posting the final work - good writing should be shared and celebrated
publication
oxymoron
formal assessment
alphabetic principle
19. 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
fiction
habituation
reading
metalinguistic awareness
20. Emergent speech/grammar explosion
Milestones in Spelling/pre - communicative
Milestones of language acquistion/two to five years
Milestones of language acquistion/eighteen months to thirty months
zone of proximal development
21. Sentences that have two clauses that could be independent but are connected by a conjunction.
biography
dangling modifiers
prewriting
compound sentences
22. A story that exposes humorously the foibles - vices and follies of a group or a system
Milestones of language acquistion/one to two years
satire
phonemes
simile
23. When a vowel is combined with an 'r' like 'or' or 'ur'
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24. 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/two to five years
false casality
Milestones in Reading/pre - alphabetic
phonology
25. The technqiue designed to help the writer develop and organize their thoughts
begging the question
syntax
language acquisition device
prewriting
26. The study in which the ways words - sentences and sounds are used to convey language aka VOCABULARY
phonemes
Milestones in Spelling/pre - communicative
digraph
semantics
27. Written representation of a 'phoneme' (the letter 'b' or 'p')
grapheme
topic sentence
'r - controlled'
spelling inventory
28. 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'
autobiography
Milestones of language acquistion/one to two years
concluding sentence
Milestones in Spelling/semi - phonetic stage
29. The study of the way sounds function in a language
phonology
concepts of print
biography
concluding sentence
30. Models of patterns recognizable for their characteristics like the wicked stepmother
dangling modifiers
archetypes
body sentence
Milestones of language acquistion/seven years to adulthood
31. What the paragraph is all about - usually the first sentence
semantics
satire
archetypes
topic sentence
32. A blending of vowel words like 'ou' in 'out
concepts about print
habituation
diphthong
free - writing
33. Awareness that language is something that can be mastered
language acquisition device
satire
metalinguistic awareness
high frequency word recognition
34. Occurs in grades k to 1: letters are conenected tro sounds
Milestones in Reading/early alphabetic
Milestones of language acquistion/birth to one year
Milestones in Spelling/correct stage
personification
35. Being convineced by a position's popularity
bandwagon effect
misplaced modifier
allusion
oxymoron
36. Works that have happened in real life. usually with a purpose and especially to inform
dangling modifiers
appositive
semantics
non - fiction
37. An assumption without argument - Because I always tell the truth - I am not lying to you now.
metaphor
begging the question
oxymoron
dangling modifiers
38. Sentence structure - which is noun - verb and adjective
syntax
concepts of print
faulty logic
simile
39. A story that was used to make sense of the world - like a story about a higher power
myth
reading
diphthong
lyrical
40. Sound sequences that convey meanings like the words 'bat' and 'rat'
morphemes
spelling
Milestones in Reading/ornographic
second language acuqisition
41. An accurate history ofa single person
biography
Milestones of language acquistion/eighteen months to thirty months
figurative language
phonemes
42. A sentence that is often the last or next - to - last sentence and is the least essential in the paragraph
concluding sentence
reading
body sentence
Milestones in Reading/early alphabetic
43. The ability to connect two letters together - also known as 'sounding out'
Milestones in Spelling/semi - phonetic stage
spelling
Milestones in Spelling/pre - communicative
blending
44. Idenetify letters and can form letters
body sentence
oral reading inventory
alphabet knowledge
over - regularizations
45. Understanding the fact that words are comprised of sounds known as phonemes
first draft
ad hominem
phonological awareness
dyslexia
46. The ability to read with the appropriate speed and intonation
bandwagon effect
concepts of print
zone of proximal development
fluency
47. A combination of opposites - like 'feather of lead'
false casality
informal assessment
begging the question
oxymoron
48. The social - physical and cultural backgrounds that affect how language is learned
personification
misplaced modifier
pragmatics
underextensions
49. Adults modify their speech to make it easier for children to learn languages - including sentence structures and repeating key words
faulty logic
Milestones in Spelling/correct stage
high frequency word recognition
Child directed speech
50. The study of word structures based on the prefixes and suffixes that the words come from
Milestones in Spelling/semi - phonetic stage
'r - controlled'
phonological awareness
morphology