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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. Attributing human qualities to a non - human animal or object
personification
Milestones in Reading/ornographic
Milestones in Spelling/transitional stage
phonological awareness
2. Graded passages that show at what level a student can read at
formal assessment
personification
oral reading inventory
satire
3. Adults modify their speech to make it easier for children to learn languages - including sentence structures and repeating key words
free - writing
phonemes
Child directed speech
brainstorming
4. When children begin to use past tenses and plurals in speeches
over - regularizations
informal assessment
semantics
dyslexia
5. Written representation of a 'phoneme' (the letter 'b' or 'p')
semantics
grapheme
alphabet knowledge
body sentence
6. A combination of opposites - like 'feather of lead'
oxymoron
prewriting
pragmatics
high frequency word recognition
7. A story that was used to make sense of the world - like a story about a higher power
metaphor
myth
high frequency word recognition
second language acuqisition
8. 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
allusion
blending
morphemes
short story
9. A story that exposes humorously the foibles - vices and follies of a group or a system
universal grammar
syntax
satire
diphthong
10. Human brains are structured to make sense of language that belongs to specifically wordly language
oxymoron
language acquisition device
second language acuqisition
tales
11. A modifier that is placed to close to a word that it should not modify
diphthong
misplaced modifier
phonological awareness
pragmatics
12. Occurs in grades k to 1: letters are conenected tro sounds
allegory
dangling modifiers
figurative language
Milestones in Reading/early alphabetic
13. 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'
squinting modifier
morphemes
Milestones in Spelling/phonetic stage
phonological awareness
14. Idenetify letters and can form letters
spelling inventory
alphabet knowledge
diphthong
Milestones of language acquistion/five to seven years
15. Being convineced by a position's popularity
grapheme
ad hominem
Milestones in Spelling/pre - communicative
bandwagon effect
16. When a vowel is combined with an 'r' like 'or' or 'ur'
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17. A humorous form that mimics the styles of another work - like song parodies
habituation
parody
pursuasive writing and speech
brainstorming
18. The idea of stereotyping - don't trust someone over thirty
metaphor
Milestones in Spelling/correct stage
overgeneralization
second language acuqisition
19. An attack launched against a person and the person's position - 'the candidate is a cowardly man'
biography
Milestones in Spelling/semi - phonetic stage
ad hominem
metacognitive approach
20. The act to write dow nany idea as they come without regard to structure or grammar
habituation
tales
free - writing
literacy
21. Emergent speech/grammar explosion
Milestones in Reading/early alphabetic
Milestones of language acquistion/two to five years
digraph
Milestones of language acquistion/one to two years
22. Treating two or more coincidences as if one caused the other 'Martin Luther King's birth caused the civil rights march'
false casality
Child directed speech
blending
publication
23. An opinion that is disgiuised as a fact
overgeneralization
Milestones in Reading/ornographic
faulty logic
alphabet knowledge
24. An assumption without argument - Because I always tell the truth - I am not lying to you now.
semantics
Milestones of language acquistion/birth to one year
begging the question
biography
25. Early word errors that toddlers make
ad hominem
appositive
underextensions
faulty logic
26. The study of word structures based on the prefixes and suffixes that the words come from
Milestones in Spelling/semi - phonetic stage
morphology
second language acuqisition
concluding sentence
27. A group of sentences based on a similar topic
paragraph
pragmatics
short story
syntax
28. The act of transforming one thing into another in a story
Milestones in Reading/ornographic
false casality
publication
metaphor
29. Occurs grades two to three: children can read larger words in print and accuracy and speed in reading are stressed
pragmatics
archetypes
digraph
Milestones in Reading/ornographic
30. 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
Child directed speech
metacognitive approach
language acquisition device
31. Can be defined by its agenda and purpose
brainstorming
pursuasive writing and speech
Milestones in Spelling/phonetic stage
reading
32. When infants and childrne repeat sounds that are reinforced
habituation
overgeneralization
dangling modifiers
satire
33. When a young child can use the context to quickly arrive to the understanding of a word's meaning
habituation
language acquisition device
fast mapping
diphthong
34. Occurs in grades 1 to 2: vowels are included
Milestones in Reading/milddle to late alphabetic
short story
morphology
blending
35. Supporting details - analysis and eividence expanding on the topic sentence
Child directed speech
spelling inventory
Milestones of language acquistion/one to two years
body sentence
36. A blending of vowel words like 'ou' in 'out
universal grammar
diphthong
faulty logic
alphabet knowledge
37. A sentence that is often the last or next - to - last sentence and is the least essential in the paragraph
begging the question
archetypes
revision and editing
concluding sentence
38. Decoding and creating written words - using proper spelling - also includes the ability to listen - speak - read - and write and obtain and retrieve information
Milestones in Spelling/transitional stage
short story
syntax
literacy
39. Occurs before kindergarten in which text progresses left to right
Milestones of language acquistion/birth to one year
prewriting
Milestones in Reading/pre - alphabetic
overgeneralization
40. Awareness that language is something that can be mastered
begging the question
Milestones of language acquistion/birth to one year
'r - controlled'
metalinguistic awareness
41. What the paragraph is all about - usually the first sentence
appositive
Milestones of language acquistion/two to five years
second language acuqisition
topic sentence
42. Models of patterns recognizable for their characteristics like the wicked stepmother
archetypes
phonological awareness
Milestones of language acquistion/eighteen months to thirty months
begging the question
43. The technqiue designed to help the writer develop and organize their thoughts
oxymoron
prewriting
Milestones in Spelling/semi - phonetic stage
semantics
44. The study of the way sounds function in a language
formal assessment
semantics
phonology
'r - controlled'
45. 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
universal grammar
phonemes
mind map
alphabet knowledge
46. A story that odriginated and deeloped over time and was passed on from generations to generations
non - fiction
faulty logic
tales
Milestones of language acquistion/birth to one year
47. 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
Milestones in Reading/early alphabetic
zone of proximal development
ad hominem
fluency
48. A technique of pre - writing in which the writer writes any ideas without limit
brainstorming
figurative language
Milestones in Spelling/correct stage
red herring
49. Skills can increase learning's efficiency and effectiveness
misplaced modifier
metacognitive approach
squinting modifier
publication
50. An accurate history ofa single person
Milestones in Reading/ornographic
'r - controlled'
biography
Milestones in Spelling/semi - phonetic stage