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CSET Subtest English
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. A story that was used to make sense of the world - like a story about a higher power
digraph
Milestones in Spelling/correct stage
squinting modifier
myth
2. The study of word structures based on the prefixes and suffixes that the words come from
morphology
Milestones in Spelling/semi - phonetic stage
pursuasive writing and speech
language acquisition device
3. A story that exposes humorously the foibles - vices and follies of a group or a system
non - fiction
satire
appositive
high frequency word recognition
4. Language that does not literally mean what it says - like the 'black bat night has flown the coop'
Milestones in Spelling/phonetic stage
squinting modifier
figurative language
informal assessment
5. Knows about books and that books tell stories
blending
Milestones in Spelling/correct stage
concepts about print
misplaced modifier
6. Graded passages that show at what level a student can read at
morphology
habituation
oral reading inventory
ad hominem
7. A reference to something outside a work of literature - like to a literary event - person or work
squinting modifier
allusion
universal grammar
Milestones of language acquistion/five to seven years
8. What the paragraph is all about - usually the first sentence
topic sentence
myth
fast mapping
allusion
9. Spelling has been traditionally taught through memorization but phonemic awareness may be the key to improving spelling in its five stages of development
second language acuqisition
concepts about print
misplaced modifier
spelling
10. When a vowel is combined with an 'r' like 'or' or 'ur'
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11. The ability to connect two letters together - also known as 'sounding out'
Milestones of language acquistion/seven years to adulthood
free - writing
blending
Milestones of language acquistion/birth to one year
12. A modifier that is placed to close to a word that it should not modify
allusion
misplaced modifier
parody
biography
13. An irrelevant point used to distract from an argument at hand
Milestones of language acquistion/birth to one year
red herring
revision and editing
mind map
14. A sentence that is often the last or next - to - last sentence and is the least essential in the paragraph
allusion
concluding sentence
false casality
language acquisition device
15. Songlike; characterized by emotion - subjectivity and imagination
concepts of print
lyrical
short story
appositive
16. Holophrastic speech (one word utters like ball)
habituation
Milestones of language acquistion/one to two years
metalinguistic awareness
fiction
17. A humorous form that mimics the styles of another work - like song parodies
revision and editing
grapheme
oxymoron
parody
18. Models of patterns recognizable for their characteristics like the wicked stepmother
squinting modifier
archetypes
allegory
Milestones in Spelling/phonetic stage
19. An accurate history ofa single person
prewriting
biography
free - writing
pursuasive writing and speech
20. 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
diphthong
body sentence
brainstorming
21. A technique of pre - writing in which the writer writes any ideas without limit
prewriting
brainstorming
spelling
ad hominem
22. 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
personification
mind map
Milestones of language acquistion/eighteen months to thirty months
revision and editing
23. Decoding and creating written words - using proper spelling - also includes the ability to listen - speak - read - and write and obtain and retrieve information
literacy
ad hominem
Child directed speech
high frequency word recognition
24. Can be defined by its agenda and purpose
concepts of print
pursuasive writing and speech
reading
concepts about print
25. Intermediate language fluency
oral reading inventory
Milestones of language acquistion/five to seven years
language acquisition device
red herring
26. A story that odriginated and deeloped over time and was passed on from generations to generations
phonemes
tales
Milestones in Spelling/semi - phonetic stage
universal grammar
27. The idea that the written language represents that sounds of spoken languages
alphabetic principle
phonemes
fluency
Milestones in Reading/early alphabetic
28. 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
concluding sentence
lyrical
dyslexia
Milestones in Spelling/transitional stage
29. Occurs grades two to three: children can read larger words in print and accuracy and speed in reading are stressed
Milestones of language acquistion/seven years to adulthood
Milestones in Reading/ornographic
dyslexia
myth
30. The technqiue designed to help the writer develop and organize their thoughts
dangling modifiers
revision and editing
prewriting
tales
31. The comparison of two different objects using the word 'like' or 'as'
Milestones in Spelling/transitional stage
Child directed speech
language acquisition device
simile
32. Ongoing classroom activities focused on individual achievements
literacy
informal assessment
Milestones of language acquistion/two to five years
dyslexia
33. Works that are invented by the writer
metalinguistic awareness
paragraph
reading
fiction
34. The phase in which a reader looks over punctuation and spelling and grammatical correctness -
revision and editing
underextensions
red herring
phonological awareness
35. The study of the way sounds function in a language
'r - controlled'
phonology
universal grammar
brainstorming
36. Telegraphic speech(words without affixes or function words)
fiction
Milestones of language acquistion/eighteen months to thirty months
syntax
metalinguistic awareness
37. Adults modify their speech to make it easier for children to learn languages - including sentence structures and repeating key words
Milestones of language acquistion/one to two years
Child directed speech
mind map
spelling inventory
38. A write - up of the essay that gets every idea down on the sheet of opaper
spelling
lyrical
first draft
second language acuqisition
39. Idenetify letters and can form letters
brainstorming
concepts of print
high frequency word recognition
alphabet knowledge
40. Understanding the fact that words are comprised of sounds known as phonemes
Milestones in Reading/milddle to late alphabetic
first draft
phonology
phonological awareness
41. 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
second language acuqisition
simile
zone of proximal development
myth
42. When children realize that letters represent sounds - may know only a few letters in the alphabet
spelling inventory
phonology
Milestones in Spelling/pre - communicative
brainstorming
43. Works that have happened in real life. usually with a purpose and especially to inform
concepts about print
first draft
overgeneralization
non - fiction
44. Written representation of a 'phoneme' (the letter 'b' or 'p')
fast mapping
red herring
grapheme
publication
45. Emergent speech/grammar explosion
habituation
Milestones of language acquistion/two to five years
concluding sentence
Milestones in Spelling/pre - communicative
46. When infants and childrne repeat sounds that are reinforced
faulty logic
mind map
habituation
alphabet knowledge
47. Sounds that signal different meanings like'b' and 't'
body sentence
Milestones in Spelling/phonetic stage
literacy
phonemes
48. Awareness that language is something that can be mastered
semantics
universal grammar
Milestones in Reading/milddle to late alphabetic
metalinguistic awareness
49. Attributing human qualities to a non - human animal or object
autobiography
literacy
personification
high frequency word recognition
50. The realization that occurs in kindergarten that words should be read from left to right
informal assessment
concepts of print
'r - controlled'
Milestones of language acquistion/one to two years
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