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CSET Subtest English

Subjects : cset, english
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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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 a vowel is combined with an 'r' like 'or' or 'ur'

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2. Spelling has been traditionally taught through memorization but phonemic awareness may be the key to improving spelling in its five stages of development






3. The idea of stereotyping - don't trust someone over thirty






4. Through spelling tests - teachers can determine the spelling stage that a student is at






5. Sentences that have two clauses that could be independent but are connected by a conjunction.






6. Cooing to babbling






7. Intermediate language fluency






8. Refcognizes word recognition out of context






9. A humorous form that mimics the styles of another work - like song parodies






10. 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






11. Sound sequences that convey meanings like the words 'bat' and 'rat'






12. The study of word structures based on the prefixes and suffixes that the words come from






13. The idea that the written language represents that sounds of spoken languages






14. The study of the way sounds function in a language






15. A modifier that is placed to close to a word that it should not modify






16. Language that does not literally mean what it says - like the 'black bat night has flown the coop'






17. Occurs in grades k to 1: letters are conenected tro sounds






18. The act of posting the final work - good writing should be shared and celebrated






19. 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'






20. A story that was used to make sense of the world - like a story about a higher power






21. Increasing fluency. An elementary student acquires 12 words daily!






22. The stage in which a child learns how to spell a word correctly by memory






23. Supporting details - analysis and eividence expanding on the topic sentence






24. A noun - or noun phrase - that names the noun next to it - like 'The insect - a cockroach....'






25. A story that odriginated and deeloped over time and was passed on from generations to generations






26. Songlike; characterized by emotion - subjectivity and imagination






27. A test that evaluates how well the learning has come along






28. 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






29. Understanding the fact that words are comprised of sounds known as phonemes






30. When children realize that letters represent sounds - may know only a few letters in the alphabet






31. Can be defined by its agenda and purpose






32. Human brains are structured to make sense of language that belongs to specifically wordly language






33. Occurs before kindergarten in which text progresses left to right






34. Idenetify letters and can form letters






35. The ability to connect two letters together - also known as 'sounding out'






36. Holophrastic speech (one word utters like ball)






37. Sounds that signal different meanings like'b' and 't'






38. The act to write dow nany idea as they come without regard to structure or grammar






39. 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.






40. The study in which the ways words - sentences and sounds are used to convey language aka VOCABULARY






41. An attack launched against a person and the person's position - 'the candidate is a cowardly man'






42. 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






43. 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'






44. Treating two or more coincidences as if one caused the other 'Martin Luther King's birth caused the civil rights march'






45. The realization that occurs in kindergarten that words should be read from left to right






46. An accurate history ofa single person






47. Emergent speech/grammar explosion






48. Occurs grades two to three: children can read larger words in print and accuracy and speed in reading are stressed






49. A modifier that does not logically refer tothe statement immediately following it






50. The act of transforming one thing into another in a story







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