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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. The ability to read with the appropriate speed and intonation
zone of proximal development
spelling inventory
fluency
oral reading inventory
2. When a vowel is combined with an 'r' like 'or' or 'ur'
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3. Children with low phonological awareness who also have trouble blending speech sounds and segmenting
short story
diphthong
bandwagon effect
dyslexia
4. Being convineced by a position's popularity
fiction
bandwagon effect
high frequency word recognition
Milestones in Reading/early alphabetic
5. The study of the way sounds function in a language
fluency
fast mapping
phonology
biography
6. The act of transforming one thing into another in a story
Milestones of language acquistion/five to seven years
publication
allegory
metaphor
7. Awareness that language is something that can be mastered
blending
personification
publication
metalinguistic awareness
8. Increasing fluency. An elementary student acquires 12 words daily!
begging the question
Milestones in Reading/ornographic
Milestones of language acquistion/seven years to adulthood
Milestones in Spelling/phonetic stage
9. A write - up of the essay that gets every idea down on the sheet of opaper
dangling modifiers
Milestones of language acquistion/birth to one year
first draft
false casality
10. Cooing to babbling
faulty logic
Milestones of language acquistion/birth to one year
simile
metacognitive approach
11. Telegraphic speech(words without affixes or function words)
Milestones of language acquistion/eighteen months to thirty months
pragmatics
revision and editing
diphthong
12. Intermediate language fluency
Milestones of language acquistion/birth to one year
Milestones of language acquistion/five to seven years
fluency
tales
13. Human brains are structured to make sense of language that belongs to specifically wordly language
language acquisition device
morphology
high frequency word recognition
alphabet knowledge
14. Spelling has been traditionally taught through memorization but phonemic awareness may be the key to improving spelling in its five stages of development
false casality
spelling
blending
appositive
15. Written representation of a 'phoneme' (the letter 'b' or 'p')
literacy
dyslexia
biography
grapheme
16. A modifier that does not logically refer tothe statement immediately following it
dangling modifiers
fluency
phonology
allusion
17. 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
pursuasive writing and speech
fast mapping
universal grammar
18. A story that exposes humorously the foibles - vices and follies of a group or a system
'r - controlled'
allegory
satire
Milestones in Spelling/semi - phonetic stage
19. An irrelevant point used to distract from an argument at hand
concluding sentence
metalinguistic awareness
red herring
body sentence
20. Skills can increase learning's efficiency and effectiveness
informal assessment
metacognitive approach
topic sentence
non - fiction
21. 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
alphabetic principle
begging the question
reading
misplaced modifier
22. Ongoing classroom activities focused on individual achievements
ad hominem
blending
pursuasive writing and speech
informal assessment
23. A modifier that is placed to close to a word that it should not modify
revision and editing
simile
misplaced modifier
paragraph
24. Occurs in grades 1 to 2: vowels are included
Milestones in Reading/milddle to late alphabetic
topic sentence
informal assessment
Milestones of language acquistion/two to five years
25. A story that odriginated and deeloped over time and was passed on from generations to generations
zone of proximal development
tales
prewriting
appositive
26. An author's account of their life
morphology
free - writing
phonological awareness
autobiography
27. Models of patterns recognizable for their characteristics like the wicked stepmother
fiction
fluency
oxymoron
archetypes
28. The comparison of two different objects using the word 'like' or 'as'
grapheme
simile
free - writing
myth
29. The idea of stereotyping - don't trust someone over thirty
Milestones in Reading/early alphabetic
overgeneralization
personification
fiction
30. An assumption without argument - Because I always tell the truth - I am not lying to you now.
fluency
allusion
mind map
begging the question
31. The idea that the written language represents that sounds of spoken languages
over - regularizations
metalinguistic awareness
alphabetic principle
metaphor
32. Attributing human qualities to a non - human animal or object
false casality
personification
diphthong
begging the question
33. A group of sentences based on a similar topic
Milestones of language acquistion/seven years to adulthood
paragraph
spelling inventory
grapheme
34. What the paragraph is all about - usually the first sentence
body sentence
topic sentence
Milestones in Spelling/phonetic stage
appositive
35. 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.
Milestones in Spelling/phonetic stage
universal grammar
'r - controlled'
metaphor
36. An opinion that is disgiuised as a fact
simile
topic sentence
faulty logic
metalinguistic awareness
37. A humorous form that mimics the styles of another work - like song parodies
parody
informal assessment
compound sentences
second language acuqisition
38. 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
diphthong
metalinguistic awareness
overgeneralization
zone of proximal development
39. Emergent speech/grammar explosion
lyrical
Milestones of language acquistion/two to five years
red herring
Milestones in Spelling/pre - communicative
40. 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
allusion
Milestones in Spelling/transitional stage
alphabet knowledge
alphabetic principle
41. A story that was used to make sense of the world - like a story about a higher power
free - writing
myth
compound sentences
fiction
42. Two letters that make one speech sound - like 'th' or 'sh'
Milestones of language acquistion/birth to one year
tales
zone of proximal development
digraph
43. Works that are invented by the writer
lyrical
Milestones in Reading/milddle to late alphabetic
fiction
morphemes
44. The technqiue designed to help the writer develop and organize their thoughts
prewriting
biography
squinting modifier
semantics
45. A test that evaluates how well the learning has come along
dyslexia
Milestones in Reading/pre - alphabetic
formal assessment
language acquisition device
46. The social - physical and cultural backgrounds that affect how language is learned
pragmatics
digraph
dangling modifiers
bandwagon effect
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'
dyslexia
pursuasive writing and speech
Milestones in Spelling/semi - phonetic stage
revision and editing
48. The realization that occurs in kindergarten that words should be read from left to right
semantics
dyslexia
concepts of print
satire
49. The ability to connect two letters together - also known as 'sounding out'
short story
brainstorming
pragmatics
blending
50. 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 Spelling/pre - communicative
figurative language
publication
short story