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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 a vowel is combined with an 'r' like 'or' or 'ur'
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2. When a young child can use the context to quickly arrive to the understanding of a word's meaning
Milestones in Spelling/correct stage
metaphor
fast mapping
metalinguistic awareness
3. Idenetify letters and can form letters
habituation
Milestones of language acquistion/five to seven years
high frequency word recognition
alphabet knowledge
4. The study of word structures based on the prefixes and suffixes that the words come from
reading
phonology
morphology
metacognitive approach
5. A sentence that is often the last or next - to - last sentence and is the least essential in the paragraph
concluding sentence
Milestones in Spelling/pre - communicative
underextensions
fast mapping
6. The study of the way sounds function in a language
Milestones of language acquistion/two to five years
metalinguistic awareness
allusion
phonology
7. Refcognizes word recognition out of context
high frequency word recognition
fast mapping
ad hominem
short story
8. An opinion that is disgiuised as a fact
squinting modifier
bandwagon effect
faulty logic
phonological awareness
9. A technique of pre - writing in which the writer writes any ideas without limit
concepts of print
brainstorming
faulty logic
compound sentences
10. A humorous form that mimics the styles of another work - like song parodies
Milestones in Spelling/correct stage
'r - controlled'
parody
personification
11. The act to write dow nany idea as they come without regard to structure or grammar
free - writing
high frequency word recognition
spelling
concluding sentence
12. An author's account of their life
parody
alphabetic principle
Milestones of language acquistion/two to five years
autobiography
13. Intermediate language fluency
parody
Milestones of language acquistion/five to seven years
squinting modifier
begging the question
14. An accurate history ofa single person
bandwagon effect
diphthong
biography
Milestones of language acquistion/eighteen months to thirty months
15. Supporting details - analysis and eividence expanding on the topic sentence
allegory
body sentence
simile
pragmatics
16. A test that evaluates how well the learning has come along
prewriting
Child directed speech
mind map
formal assessment
17. Early word errors that toddlers make
underextensions
autobiography
tales
lyrical
18. Models of patterns recognizable for their characteristics like the wicked stepmother
underextensions
archetypes
fluency
semantics
19. Occurs in grades 1 to 2: vowels are included
Milestones of language acquistion/seven years to adulthood
body sentence
Milestones in Reading/milddle to late alphabetic
faulty logic
20. Occurs before kindergarten in which text progresses left to right
Milestones of language acquistion/one to two years
fluency
Milestones in Reading/pre - alphabetic
allegory
21. Works that have happened in real life. usually with a purpose and especially to inform
diphthong
Milestones in Spelling/correct stage
first draft
non - fiction
22. Works that are invented by the writer
fiction
over - regularizations
spelling
squinting modifier
23. A story that odriginated and deeloped over time and was passed on from generations to generations
red herring
habituation
tales
oxymoron
24. When children realize that letters represent sounds - may know only a few letters in the alphabet
'r - controlled'
phonology
Milestones in Spelling/pre - communicative
Milestones in Spelling/semi - phonetic stage
25. Cooing to babbling
Milestones of language acquistion/birth to one year
spelling
Milestones in Spelling/semi - phonetic stage
prewriting
26. Adults modify their speech to make it easier for children to learn languages - including sentence structures and repeating key words
Milestones of language acquistion/seven years to adulthood
underextensions
Milestones of language acquistion/five to seven years
Child directed speech
27. The study in which the ways words - sentences and sounds are used to convey language aka VOCABULARY
appositive
Milestones in Spelling/transitional stage
brainstorming
semantics
28. Spelling has been traditionally taught through memorization but phonemic awareness may be the key to improving spelling in its five stages of development
spelling
paragraph
morphemes
allegory
29. The act of transforming one thing into another in a story
archetypes
revision and editing
bandwagon effect
metaphor
30. Can be defined by its agenda and purpose
pursuasive writing and speech
Milestones of language acquistion/two to five years
morphology
over - regularizations
31. Emergent speech/grammar explosion
compound sentences
Milestones of language acquistion/two to five years
mind map
Milestones in Reading/early alphabetic
32. The idea of stereotyping - don't trust someone over thirty
overgeneralization
first draft
Milestones in Spelling/transitional stage
ad hominem
33. Songlike; characterized by emotion - subjectivity and imagination
lyrical
metalinguistic awareness
blending
prewriting
34. 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
Milestones in Spelling/transitional stage
blending
35. The act of posting the final work - good writing should be shared and celebrated
pursuasive writing and speech
publication
concepts of print
free - writing
36. Being convineced by a position's popularity
bandwagon effect
Milestones in Reading/early alphabetic
blending
body sentence
37. A combination of opposites - like 'feather of lead'
literacy
misplaced modifier
oral reading inventory
oxymoron
38. Decoding and creating written words - using proper spelling - also includes the ability to listen - speak - read - and write and obtain and retrieve information
overgeneralization
high frequency word recognition
literacy
phonemes
39. Awareness that language is something that can be mastered
metalinguistic awareness
Milestones of language acquistion/birth to one year
habituation
satire
40. 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.
allusion
universal grammar
autobiography
lyrical
41. 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
zone of proximal development
archetypes
Child directed speech
Milestones in Spelling/transitional stage
42. An irrelevant point used to distract from an argument at hand
pragmatics
red herring
fluency
Milestones of language acquistion/eighteen months to thirty months
43. 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
mind map
diphthong
metacognitive approach
Milestones of language acquistion/birth to one year
44. Language that does not literally mean what it says - like the 'black bat night has flown the coop'
figurative language
'r - controlled'
spelling
alphabet knowledge
45. Occurs grades two to three: children can read larger words in print and accuracy and speed in reading are stressed
Milestones in Reading/ornographic
brainstorming
publication
pragmatics
46. Human brains are structured to make sense of language that belongs to specifically wordly language
Milestones of language acquistion/five to seven years
Milestones in Reading/milddle to late alphabetic
language acquisition device
allusion
47. 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'
publication
Milestones in Spelling/semi - phonetic stage
Milestones of language acquistion/five to seven years
blending
48. Telegraphic speech(words without affixes or function words)
Milestones of language acquistion/eighteen months to thirty months
brainstorming
allegory
literacy
49. The ability to read with the appropriate speed and intonation
syntax
diphthong
allusion
fluency
50. Holophrastic speech (one word utters like ball)
grapheme
over - regularizations
Milestones of language acquistion/one to two years
informal assessment