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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 children begin to use past tenses and plurals in speeches
informal assessment
spelling inventory
brainstorming
over - regularizations
2. A combination of opposites - like 'feather of lead'
oxymoron
tales
spelling inventory
semantics
3. A modifier that does not logically refer tothe statement immediately following it
brainstorming
concluding sentence
dangling modifiers
digraph
4. 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
figurative language
oral reading inventory
Milestones in Spelling/transitional stage
short story
5. Supporting details - analysis and eividence expanding on the topic sentence
oxymoron
non - fiction
grapheme
body sentence
6. An opinion that is disgiuised as a fact
faulty logic
Child directed speech
metacognitive approach
fluency
7. The act of transforming one thing into another in a story
misplaced modifier
oral reading inventory
parody
metaphor
8. Children with low phonological awareness who also have trouble blending speech sounds and segmenting
dyslexia
oxymoron
alphabet knowledge
language acquisition device
9. The realization that occurs in kindergarten that words should be read from left to right
Milestones in Reading/milddle to late alphabetic
fiction
morphemes
concepts of print
10. Attributing human qualities to a non - human animal or object
paragraph
personification
revision and editing
concluding sentence
11. Early word errors that toddlers make
metacognitive approach
overgeneralization
underextensions
parody
12. A story that exposes humorously the foibles - vices and follies of a group or a system
squinting modifier
satire
blending
morphemes
13. The study of word structures based on the prefixes and suffixes that the words come from
Milestones of language acquistion/eighteen months to thirty months
pragmatics
Milestones in Reading/ornographic
morphology
14. Two letters that make one speech sound - like 'th' or 'sh'
digraph
Milestones in Reading/milddle to late alphabetic
short story
compound sentences
15. The phase in which a reader looks over punctuation and spelling and grammatical correctness -
autobiography
revision and editing
metaphor
Milestones of language acquistion/birth to one year
16. Can be defined by its agenda and purpose
pursuasive writing and speech
myth
oral reading inventory
body sentence
17. A reference to something outside a work of literature - like to a literary event - person or work
begging the question
allusion
Milestones of language acquistion/birth to one year
overgeneralization
18. The ability to read with the appropriate speed and intonation
blending
begging the question
fluency
non - fiction
19. The stage in which a child learns how to spell a word correctly by memory
Milestones in Spelling/correct stage
fluency
underextensions
morphemes
20. A sentence that is often the last or next - to - last sentence and is the least essential in the paragraph
mind map
concluding sentence
compound sentences
archetypes
21. Language that does not literally mean what it says - like the 'black bat night has flown the coop'
spelling inventory
high frequency word recognition
mind map
figurative language
22. The study of the way sounds function in a language
concepts about print
phonology
tales
dangling modifiers
23. A noun - or noun phrase - that names the noun next to it - like 'The insect - a cockroach....'
syntax
appositive
fast mapping
paragraph
24. An author's account of their life
first draft
alphabet knowledge
fiction
autobiography
25. Through spelling tests - teachers can determine the spelling stage that a student is at
Milestones in Spelling/semi - phonetic stage
spelling inventory
figurative language
underextensions
26. 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
reading
Milestones in Reading/pre - alphabetic
appositive
Milestones of language acquistion/two to five years
27. What the paragraph is all about - usually the first sentence
topic sentence
Milestones in Reading/ornographic
'r - controlled'
autobiography
28. Refcognizes word recognition out of context
oral reading inventory
over - regularizations
Milestones in Spelling/pre - communicative
high frequency word recognition
29. Works that are invented by the writer
spelling
bandwagon effect
red herring
fiction
30. Sounds that signal different meanings like'b' and 't'
non - fiction
prewriting
phonemes
formal assessment
31. When infants and childrne repeat sounds that are reinforced
blending
figurative language
autobiography
habituation
32. Ongoing classroom activities focused on individual achievements
non - fiction
Milestones of language acquistion/two to five years
alphabetic principle
informal assessment
33. Increasing fluency. An elementary student acquires 12 words daily!
Milestones of language acquistion/birth to one year
paragraph
Milestones of language acquistion/seven years to adulthood
phonological awareness
34. Idenetify letters and can form letters
concepts of print
alphabet knowledge
ad hominem
Child directed speech
35. 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
squinting modifier
archetypes
mind map
alphabet knowledge
36. 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
literacy
Child directed speech
Milestones in Spelling/transitional stage
first draft
37. Sentence structure - which is noun - verb and adjective
syntax
body sentence
publication
short story
38. The social - physical and cultural backgrounds that affect how language is learned
concepts about print
lyrical
over - regularizations
pragmatics
39. Works that have happened in real life. usually with a purpose and especially to inform
non - fiction
body sentence
habituation
over - regularizations
40. A modifier that is placed to close to a word that it should not modify
Child directed speech
literacy
misplaced modifier
alphabet knowledge
41. Cooing to babbling
Milestones of language acquistion/birth to one year
short story
Milestones in Spelling/transitional stage
squinting modifier
42. When a vowel is combined with an 'r' like 'or' or 'ur'
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43. 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
paragraph
universal grammar
metacognitive approach
second language acuqisition
44. The idea of stereotyping - don't trust someone over thirty
fluency
dyslexia
zone of proximal development
overgeneralization
45. A story that was used to make sense of the world - like a story about a higher power
topic sentence
red herring
metalinguistic awareness
myth
46. A blending of vowel words like 'ou' in 'out
'r - controlled'
diphthong
brainstorming
biography
47. Occurs before kindergarten in which text progresses left to right
syntax
literacy
Milestones in Reading/pre - alphabetic
concepts of print
48. When children realize that letters represent sounds - may know only a few letters in the alphabet
Milestones in Spelling/pre - communicative
fiction
paragraph
alphabetic principle
49. The study in which the ways words - sentences and sounds are used to convey language aka VOCABULARY
metalinguistic awareness
Milestones of language acquistion/eighteen months to thirty months
Milestones in Spelling/correct stage
semantics
50. Sentences that have two clauses that could be independent but are connected by a conjunction.
reading
compound sentences
Milestones of language acquistion/birth to one year
spelling