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CSET Subtest English

Subjects : cset, english
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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 infants and childrne repeat sounds that are reinforced






2. 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'






3. When children begin to use past tenses and plurals in speeches






4. The comparison of two different objects using the word 'like' or 'as'






5. 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'






6. The ability to read with the appropriate speed and intonation






7. Treating two or more coincidences as if one caused the other 'Martin Luther King's birth caused the civil rights march'






8. A test that evaluates how well the learning has come along






9. Skills can increase learning's efficiency and effectiveness






10. A modifier that is placed to close to a word that it should not modify






11. A noun - or noun phrase - that names the noun next to it - like 'The insect - a cockroach....'






12. An assumption without argument - Because I always tell the truth - I am not lying to you now.






13. Supporting details - analysis and eividence expanding on the topic sentence






14. An opinion that is disgiuised as a fact






15. Two letters that make one speech sound - like 'th' or 'sh'






16. Through spelling tests - teachers can determine the spelling stage that a student is at






17. Intermediate language fluency






18. Human brains are structured to make sense of language that belongs to specifically wordly language






19. 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






20. An author's account of their life






21. A technique of pre - writing in which the writer writes any ideas without limit






22. An extended metaphor that is carried through an entire narrative like 'Everyman'






23. The study in which the ways words - sentences and sounds are used to convey language aka VOCABULARY






24. The study of the way sounds function in a language






25. 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.






26. Works that are invented by the writer






27. The act of transforming one thing into another in a story






28. The technqiue designed to help the writer develop and organize their thoughts






29. The idea that the written language represents that sounds of spoken languages






30. The act to write dow nany idea as they come without regard to structure or grammar






31. A story that was used to make sense of the world - like a story about a higher power






32. A blending of vowel words like 'ou' in 'out






33. When a young child can use the context to quickly arrive to the understanding of a word's meaning






34. Sentence structure - which is noun - verb and adjective






35. The phase in which a reader looks over punctuation and spelling and grammatical correctness -






36. When children realize that letters represent sounds - may know only a few letters in the alphabet






37. The ability to connect two letters together - also known as 'sounding out'






38. Sounds that signal different meanings like'b' and 't'






39. Holophrastic speech (one word utters like ball)






40. A combination of opposites - like 'feather of lead'






41. A write - up of the essay that gets every idea down on the sheet of opaper






42. Children with low phonological awareness who also have trouble blending speech sounds and segmenting






43. The realization that occurs in kindergarten that words should be read from left to right






44. Occurs grades two to three: children can read larger words in print and accuracy and speed in reading are stressed






45. Models of patterns recognizable for their characteristics like the wicked stepmother






46. Written representation of a 'phoneme' (the letter 'b' or 'p')






47. 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






48. Being convineced by a position's popularity






49. Emergent speech/grammar explosion






50. An attack launched against a person and the person's position - 'the candidate is a cowardly man'