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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. 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
metacognitive approach
Child directed speech
personification
2. Children with low phonological awareness who also have trouble blending speech sounds and segmenting
Milestones of language acquistion/five to seven years
dyslexia
literacy
misplaced modifier
3. Occurs in grades k to 1: letters are conenected tro sounds
oxymoron
digraph
phonemes
Milestones in Reading/early alphabetic
4. 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
language acquisition device
'r - controlled'
universal grammar
5. A story that exposes humorously the foibles - vices and follies of a group or a system
fluency
Milestones of language acquistion/one to two years
satire
fiction
6. Sentence structure - which is noun - verb and adjective
prewriting
syntax
Milestones of language acquistion/birth to one year
formal assessment
7. Through spelling tests - teachers can determine the spelling stage that a student is at
archetypes
spelling inventory
satire
simile
8. An accurate history ofa single person
Milestones of language acquistion/one to two years
semantics
biography
alphabet knowledge
9. Works that have happened in real life. usually with a purpose and especially to inform
Milestones in Spelling/pre - communicative
non - fiction
formal assessment
diphthong
10. The ability to connect two letters together - also known as 'sounding out'
phonemes
Milestones in Reading/ornographic
blending
dyslexia
11. Refcognizes word recognition out of context
high frequency word recognition
faulty logic
false casality
begging the question
12. 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
oral reading inventory
appositive
zone of proximal development
biography
13. Sentences that have two clauses that could be independent but are connected by a conjunction.
free - writing
underextensions
Milestones of language acquistion/two to five years
compound sentences
14. Intermediate language fluency
Milestones of language acquistion/five to seven years
misplaced modifier
Milestones in Spelling/semi - phonetic stage
concluding sentence
15. Early word errors that toddlers make
literacy
Milestones of language acquistion/birth to one year
phonemes
underextensions
16. The ability to read with the appropriate speed and intonation
fluency
short story
high frequency word recognition
lyrical
17. An author's account of their life
revision and editing
false casality
Milestones in Reading/ornographic
autobiography
18. Two letters that make one speech sound - like 'th' or 'sh'
metalinguistic awareness
biography
digraph
alphabet knowledge
19. Works that are invented by the writer
Milestones of language acquistion/two to five years
compound sentences
fiction
formal assessment
20. A write - up of the essay that gets every idea down on the sheet of opaper
satire
phonology
concepts about print
first draft
21. An assumption without argument - Because I always tell the truth - I am not lying to you now.
fast mapping
Milestones in Spelling/transitional stage
morphemes
begging the question
22. An opinion that is disgiuised as a fact
begging the question
Milestones in Reading/pre - alphabetic
faulty logic
non - fiction
23. An irrelevant point used to distract from an argument at hand
red herring
revision and editing
metaphor
fiction
24. Decoding and creating written words - using proper spelling - also includes the ability to listen - speak - read - and write and obtain and retrieve information
pursuasive writing and speech
Milestones of language acquistion/five to seven years
phonological awareness
literacy
25. Sound sequences that convey meanings like the words 'bat' and 'rat'
Milestones in Reading/early alphabetic
morphemes
Milestones in Spelling/transitional stage
formal assessment
26. The idea that the written language represents that sounds of spoken languages
spelling inventory
Milestones in Reading/milddle to late alphabetic
alphabetic principle
metalinguistic awareness
27. Telegraphic speech(words without affixes or function words)
Milestones of language acquistion/eighteen months to thirty months
squinting modifier
Milestones in Reading/pre - alphabetic
short story
28. A modifier that is placed to close to a word that it should not modify
concepts about print
misplaced modifier
high frequency word recognition
alphabet knowledge
29. 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
alphabetic principle
reading
Milestones of language acquistion/five to seven years
30. The idea of stereotyping - don't trust someone over thirty
compound sentences
Milestones in Spelling/pre - communicative
overgeneralization
zone of proximal development
31. The phase in which a reader looks over punctuation and spelling and grammatical correctness -
revision and editing
pursuasive writing and speech
overgeneralization
syntax
32. Treating two or more coincidences as if one caused the other 'Martin Luther King's birth caused the civil rights march'
free - writing
appositive
body sentence
false casality
33. An extended metaphor that is carried through an entire narrative like 'Everyman'
allegory
blending
dyslexia
biography
34. Graded passages that show at what level a student can read at
figurative language
oral reading inventory
grapheme
phonemes
35. 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
myth
Milestones in Spelling/transitional stage
first draft
morphemes
36. Skills can increase learning's efficiency and effectiveness
metacognitive approach
metalinguistic awareness
second language acuqisition
informal assessment
37. A humorous form that mimics the styles of another work - like song parodies
metaphor
appositive
fluency
parody
38. Idenetify letters and can form letters
Milestones of language acquistion/two to five years
reading
alphabet knowledge
concluding sentence
39. A noun - or noun phrase - that names the noun next to it - like 'The insect - a cockroach....'
Milestones in Spelling/phonetic stage
blending
appositive
Milestones of language acquistion/two to five years
40. The stage in which a child learns how to spell a word correctly by memory
concepts of print
Milestones in Spelling/correct stage
semantics
Milestones of language acquistion/one to two years
41. 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
underextensions
Milestones in Spelling/correct stage
short story
Milestones in Reading/pre - alphabetic
42. When children realize that letters represent sounds - may know only a few letters in the alphabet
false casality
concepts of print
Milestones in Spelling/pre - communicative
Milestones in Spelling/transitional stage
43. Occurs grades two to three: children can read larger words in print and accuracy and speed in reading are stressed
false casality
phonemes
phonology
Milestones in Reading/ornographic
44. When a vowel is combined with an 'r' like 'or' or 'ur'
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45. Models of patterns recognizable for their characteristics like the wicked stepmother
second language acuqisition
myth
archetypes
first draft
46. When a young child can use the context to quickly arrive to the understanding of a word's meaning
Milestones of language acquistion/one to two years
fast mapping
metaphor
allusion
47. Adults modify their speech to make it easier for children to learn languages - including sentence structures and repeating key words
tales
Child directed speech
universal grammar
satire
48. When children begin to use past tenses and plurals in speeches
concepts of print
Milestones of language acquistion/birth to one year
over - regularizations
bandwagon effect
49. An attack launched against a person and the person's position - 'the candidate is a cowardly man'
spelling inventory
ad hominem
body sentence
oxymoron
50. Awareness that language is something that can be mastered
reading
metalinguistic awareness
oral reading inventory
morphemes