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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. When infants and childrne repeat sounds that are reinforced
fiction
habituation
concepts about print
oxymoron
2. 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'
Milestones in Spelling/semi - phonetic stage
topic sentence
brainstorming
reading
3. When children begin to use past tenses and plurals in speeches
Milestones in Reading/early alphabetic
pragmatics
over - regularizations
concepts about print
4. The comparison of two different objects using the word 'like' or 'as'
short story
allegory
simile
concepts about print
5. 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'
autobiography
blending
phonology
Milestones in Spelling/phonetic stage
6. The ability to read with the appropriate speed and intonation
prewriting
fluency
reading
Milestones of language acquistion/one to two years
7. Treating two or more coincidences as if one caused the other 'Martin Luther King's birth caused the civil rights march'
Milestones in Spelling/semi - phonetic stage
habituation
false casality
myth
8. A test that evaluates how well the learning has come along
formal assessment
metalinguistic awareness
over - regularizations
Milestones in Reading/milddle to late alphabetic
9. Skills can increase learning's efficiency and effectiveness
high frequency word recognition
Milestones in Spelling/correct stage
metacognitive approach
non - fiction
10. A modifier that is placed to close to a word that it should not modify
concepts of print
misplaced modifier
over - regularizations
universal grammar
11. A noun - or noun phrase - that names the noun next to it - like 'The insect - a cockroach....'
non - fiction
Milestones of language acquistion/eighteen months to thirty months
squinting modifier
appositive
12. An assumption without argument - Because I always tell the truth - I am not lying to you now.
begging the question
Milestones of language acquistion/two to five years
high frequency word recognition
phonological awareness
13. Supporting details - analysis and eividence expanding on the topic sentence
myth
body sentence
appositive
misplaced modifier
14. An opinion that is disgiuised as a fact
phonological awareness
faulty logic
concepts of print
Milestones of language acquistion/seven years to adulthood
15. Two letters that make one speech sound - like 'th' or 'sh'
language acquisition device
revision and editing
ad hominem
digraph
16. Through spelling tests - teachers can determine the spelling stage that a student is at
compound sentences
spelling inventory
Milestones in Spelling/semi - phonetic stage
language acquisition device
17. Intermediate language fluency
tales
dangling modifiers
Milestones in Reading/pre - alphabetic
Milestones of language acquistion/five to seven years
18. Human brains are structured to make sense of language that belongs to specifically wordly language
language acquisition device
parody
fluency
Milestones of language acquistion/two to five years
19. 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 of language acquistion/seven years to adulthood
myth
morphemes
Milestones in Spelling/transitional stage
20. An author's account of their life
alphabetic principle
autobiography
spelling inventory
'r - controlled'
21. A technique of pre - writing in which the writer writes any ideas without limit
appositive
tales
brainstorming
concepts of print
22. An extended metaphor that is carried through an entire narrative like 'Everyman'
Child directed speech
dyslexia
semantics
allegory
23. The study in which the ways words - sentences and sounds are used to convey language aka VOCABULARY
red herring
Milestones in Spelling/correct stage
semantics
Milestones of language acquistion/seven years to adulthood
24. The study of the way sounds function in a language
parody
Milestones of language acquistion/birth to one year
ad hominem
phonology
25. 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.
blending
universal grammar
body sentence
publication
26. Works that are invented by the writer
revision and editing
allegory
fiction
dangling modifiers
27. The act of transforming one thing into another in a story
universal grammar
metaphor
Milestones in Spelling/transitional stage
brainstorming
28. The technqiue designed to help the writer develop and organize their thoughts
spelling inventory
zone of proximal development
prewriting
oral reading inventory
29. The idea that the written language represents that sounds of spoken languages
archetypes
alphabetic principle
Milestones in Spelling/phonetic stage
phonological awareness
30. The act to write dow nany idea as they come without regard to structure or grammar
free - writing
Milestones of language acquistion/five to seven years
high frequency word recognition
'r - controlled'
31. A story that was used to make sense of the world - like a story about a higher power
myth
over - regularizations
universal grammar
personification
32. A blending of vowel words like 'ou' in 'out
habituation
diphthong
language acquisition device
false casality
33. When a young child can use the context to quickly arrive to the understanding of a word's meaning
fast mapping
allusion
bandwagon effect
concepts of print
34. Sentence structure - which is noun - verb and adjective
syntax
universal grammar
'r - controlled'
begging the question
35. The phase in which a reader looks over punctuation and spelling and grammatical correctness -
revision and editing
phonological awareness
misplaced modifier
blending
36. When children realize that letters represent sounds - may know only a few letters in the alphabet
Milestones in Spelling/pre - communicative
metacognitive approach
myth
literacy
37. The ability to connect two letters together - also known as 'sounding out'
blending
concepts of print
semantics
spelling inventory
38. Sounds that signal different meanings like'b' and 't'
oxymoron
misplaced modifier
autobiography
phonemes
39. Holophrastic speech (one word utters like ball)
oral reading inventory
grapheme
Milestones of language acquistion/one to two years
fluency
40. A combination of opposites - like 'feather of lead'
dangling modifiers
'r - controlled'
Milestones of language acquistion/one to two years
oxymoron
41. A write - up of the essay that gets every idea down on the sheet of opaper
universal grammar
first draft
Milestones in Spelling/pre - communicative
brainstorming
42. Children with low phonological awareness who also have trouble blending speech sounds and segmenting
reading
compound sentences
dyslexia
red herring
43. The realization that occurs in kindergarten that words should be read from left to right
autobiography
faulty logic
non - fiction
concepts of print
44. Occurs grades two to three: children can read larger words in print and accuracy and speed in reading are stressed
red herring
first draft
Milestones in Reading/ornographic
high frequency word recognition
45. Models of patterns recognizable for their characteristics like the wicked stepmother
Milestones in Reading/ornographic
archetypes
Milestones of language acquistion/five to seven years
lyrical
46. Written representation of a 'phoneme' (the letter 'b' or 'p')
spelling inventory
grapheme
false casality
figurative language
47. 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
blending
paragraph
second language acuqisition
bandwagon effect
48. Being convineced by a position's popularity
bandwagon effect
satire
Milestones of language acquistion/birth to one year
'r - controlled'
49. Emergent speech/grammar explosion
Milestones of language acquistion/two to five years
first draft
literacy
Milestones of language acquistion/five to seven years
50. An attack launched against a person and the person's position - 'the candidate is a cowardly man'
compound sentences
metalinguistic awareness
ad hominem
language acquisition device