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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. Ongoing classroom activities focused on individual achievements
formal assessment
informal assessment
bandwagon effect
begging the question
2. When a young child can use the context to quickly arrive to the understanding of a word's meaning
fast mapping
semantics
syntax
Milestones of language acquistion/one to two years
3. The act of posting the final work - good writing should be shared and celebrated
phonemes
red herring
publication
mind map
4. Attributing human qualities to a non - human animal or object
concepts about print
body sentence
dangling modifiers
personification
5. When a vowel is combined with an 'r' like 'or' or 'ur'
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6. 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
zone of proximal development
lyrical
phonology
concepts about print
7. A modifier that does not logically refer tothe statement immediately following it
grapheme
dangling modifiers
literacy
misplaced modifier
8. 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'
short story
Milestones in Spelling/semi - phonetic stage
Milestones of language acquistion/one to two years
phonology
9. Language that does not literally mean what it says - like the 'black bat night has flown the coop'
parody
begging the question
figurative language
spelling inventory
10. A test that evaluates how well the learning has come along
non - fiction
prewriting
formal assessment
concluding sentence
11. Occurs in grades 1 to 2: vowels are included
false casality
myth
second language acuqisition
Milestones in Reading/milddle to late alphabetic
12. 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/birth to one year
Milestones in Spelling/transitional stage
allusion
paragraph
13. A write - up of the essay that gets every idea down on the sheet of opaper
spelling
oxymoron
metacognitive approach
first draft
14. Sounds that signal different meanings like'b' and 't'
dangling modifiers
compound sentences
phonological awareness
phonemes
15. An extended metaphor that is carried through an entire narrative like 'Everyman'
paragraph
informal assessment
allegory
pursuasive writing and speech
16. Graded passages that show at what level a student can read at
oral reading inventory
pragmatics
blending
Milestones in Reading/early alphabetic
17. 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
Milestones in Reading/ornographic
short story
informal assessment
pragmatics
18. A story that was used to make sense of the world - like a story about a higher power
appositive
myth
oxymoron
fast mapping
19. Spelling has been traditionally taught through memorization but phonemic awareness may be the key to improving spelling in its five stages of development
spelling
high frequency word recognition
ad hominem
allusion
20. Intermediate language fluency
Milestones of language acquistion/five to seven years
autobiography
dangling modifiers
allusion
21. Decoding and creating written words - using proper spelling - also includes the ability to listen - speak - read - and write and obtain and retrieve information
literacy
pragmatics
metacognitive approach
Milestones in Spelling/pre - communicative
22. 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
first draft
archetypes
phonology
23. An irrelevant point used to distract from an argument at hand
allusion
concepts of print
free - writing
red herring
24. Understanding the fact that words are comprised of sounds known as phonemes
non - fiction
phonological awareness
Child directed speech
short story
25. The study in which the ways words - sentences and sounds are used to convey language aka VOCABULARY
semantics
compound sentences
lyrical
figurative language
26. The idea that the written language represents that sounds of spoken languages
concepts about print
ad hominem
topic sentence
alphabetic principle
27. The act to write dow nany idea as they come without regard to structure or grammar
compound sentences
alphabetic principle
free - writing
Milestones in Spelling/transitional stage
28. Through spelling tests - teachers can determine the spelling stage that a student is at
spelling inventory
archetypes
formal assessment
publication
29. Emergent speech/grammar explosion
dyslexia
Milestones in Spelling/phonetic stage
Milestones of language acquistion/two to five years
mind map
30. The idea of stereotyping - don't trust someone over thirty
Milestones in Spelling/semi - phonetic stage
fast mapping
overgeneralization
appositive
31. The technqiue designed to help the writer develop and organize their thoughts
Milestones of language acquistion/eighteen months to thirty months
appositive
prewriting
Child directed speech
32. Holophrastic speech (one word utters like ball)
Milestones of language acquistion/one to two years
dyslexia
zone of proximal development
fiction
33. The social - physical and cultural backgrounds that affect how language is learned
underextensions
metacognitive approach
alphabetic principle
pragmatics
34. Can be defined by its agenda and purpose
Milestones of language acquistion/two to five years
squinting modifier
Milestones in Reading/milddle to late alphabetic
pursuasive writing and speech
35. An author's account of their life
syntax
autobiography
reading
personification
36. 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
oxymoron
Milestones in Spelling/transitional stage
Milestones of language acquistion/birth to one year
37. Supporting details - analysis and eividence expanding on the topic sentence
prewriting
body sentence
faulty logic
tales
38. Awareness that language is something that can be mastered
morphemes
metalinguistic awareness
first draft
alphabetic principle
39. Sentence structure - which is noun - verb and adjective
false casality
reading
syntax
Milestones in Reading/milddle to late alphabetic
40. A sentence that is often the last or next - to - last sentence and is the least essential in the paragraph
oral reading inventory
concluding sentence
parody
alphabet knowledge
41. The stage in which a child learns how to spell a word correctly by memory
blending
Milestones in Spelling/correct stage
fast mapping
prewriting
42. Refcognizes word recognition out of context
red herring
high frequency word recognition
Milestones of language acquistion/birth to one year
parody
43. The phase in which a reader looks over punctuation and spelling and grammatical correctness -
formal assessment
revision and editing
squinting modifier
body sentence
44. A blending of vowel words like 'ou' in 'out
diphthong
compound sentences
alphabet knowledge
topic sentence
45. A reference to something outside a work of literature - like to a literary event - person or work
Milestones in Spelling/correct stage
oral reading inventory
Milestones of language acquistion/two to five years
allusion
46. A combination of opposites - like 'feather of lead'
oxymoron
grapheme
Milestones of language acquistion/two to five years
red herring
47. Two letters that make one speech sound - like 'th' or 'sh'
body sentence
Milestones in Reading/early alphabetic
blending
digraph
48. An accurate history ofa single person
alphabet knowledge
biography
squinting modifier
diphthong
49. Occurs in grades k to 1: letters are conenected tro sounds
Milestones in Reading/early alphabetic
semantics
pursuasive writing and speech
paragraph
50. The ability to read with the appropriate speed and intonation
revision and editing
fluency
compound sentences
reading