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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. A modifier that could modify either two phrases before it. The executive entering the office hurriedly made the decision.affective filter - aka writer's block: a condition that leavesstudents feeling insecure about writing
metalinguistic awareness
tales
short story
squinting modifier
2. The comparison of two different objects using the word 'like' or 'as'
simile
concepts of print
digraph
lyrical
3. When a young child can use the context to quickly arrive to the understanding of a word's meaning
fast mapping
figurative language
publication
blending
4. An assumption without argument - Because I always tell the truth - I am not lying to you now.
Milestones in Reading/milddle to late alphabetic
over - regularizations
begging the question
Milestones of language acquistion/one to two years
5. When children begin to use past tenses and plurals in speeches
zone of proximal development
bandwagon effect
pursuasive writing and speech
over - regularizations
6. The act to write dow nany idea as they come without regard to structure or grammar
free - writing
concepts about print
informal assessment
Milestones of language acquistion/birth to one year
7. Sounds that signal different meanings like'b' and 't'
formal assessment
Milestones in Spelling/phonetic stage
phonemes
bandwagon effect
8. The study in which the ways words - sentences and sounds are used to convey language aka VOCABULARY
semantics
grapheme
short story
brainstorming
9. Holophrastic speech (one word utters like ball)
concepts of print
Milestones of language acquistion/one to two years
Milestones of language acquistion/seven years to adulthood
Milestones of language acquistion/birth to one year
10. Written representation of a 'phoneme' (the letter 'b' or 'p')
oral reading inventory
Milestones of language acquistion/one to two years
grapheme
dyslexia
11. Occurs before kindergarten in which text progresses left to right
alphabet knowledge
spelling
ad hominem
Milestones in Reading/pre - alphabetic
12. An opinion that is disgiuised as a fact
faulty logic
oxymoron
red herring
Milestones in Reading/ornographic
13. 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
false casality
high frequency word recognition
non - fiction
14. 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
Milestones in Spelling/transitional stage
phonology
15. When children realize that letters represent sounds - may know only a few letters in the alphabet
tales
overgeneralization
Milestones in Spelling/pre - communicative
informal assessment
16. Emergent speech/grammar explosion
Milestones of language acquistion/two to five years
biography
overgeneralization
mind map
17. Works that are invented by the writer
fiction
'r - controlled'
language acquisition device
metaphor
18. Language that does not literally mean what it says - like the 'black bat night has flown the coop'
squinting modifier
figurative language
blending
habituation
19. A story that exposes humorously the foibles - vices and follies of a group or a system
Milestones in Reading/milddle to late alphabetic
satire
metaphor
myth
20. A sentence that is often the last or next - to - last sentence and is the least essential in the paragraph
concluding sentence
prewriting
fast mapping
Milestones of language acquistion/two to five years
21. A story that was used to make sense of the world - like a story about a higher power
concepts about print
language acquisition device
myth
semantics
22. Sentence structure - which is noun - verb and adjective
simile
high frequency word recognition
syntax
ad hominem
23. A blending of vowel words like 'ou' in 'out
compound sentences
syntax
pursuasive writing and speech
diphthong
24. An author's account of their life
Milestones in Spelling/pre - communicative
appositive
myth
autobiography
25. A group of sentences based on a similar topic
concepts of print
paragraph
revision and editing
phonemes
26. The idea of stereotyping - don't trust someone over thirty
overgeneralization
revision and editing
phonology
lyrical
27. Songlike; characterized by emotion - subjectivity and imagination
misplaced modifier
diphthong
lyrical
overgeneralization
28. 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'
blending
first draft
Milestones in Spelling/semi - phonetic stage
universal grammar
29. The stage in which a child learns how to spell a word correctly by memory
Milestones in Spelling/correct stage
publication
literacy
habituation
30. An irrelevant point used to distract from an argument at hand
Milestones in Spelling/phonetic stage
Milestones in Spelling/correct stage
phonology
red herring
31. A modifier that does not logically refer tothe statement immediately following it
mind map
diphthong
Milestones in Spelling/phonetic stage
dangling modifiers
32. An attack launched against a person and the person's position - 'the candidate is a cowardly man'
concepts of print
alphabetic principle
ad hominem
parody
33. Works that have happened in real life. usually with a purpose and especially to inform
Child directed speech
Milestones of language acquistion/seven years to adulthood
non - fiction
semantics
34. Occurs grades two to three: children can read larger words in print and accuracy and speed in reading are stressed
false casality
Milestones in Reading/ornographic
Milestones of language acquistion/one to two years
Milestones in Reading/early alphabetic
35. A humorous form that mimics the styles of another work - like song parodies
digraph
Milestones of language acquistion/birth to one year
habituation
parody
36. Understanding the fact that words are comprised of sounds known as phonemes
Milestones in Reading/milddle to late alphabetic
metacognitive approach
phonological awareness
bandwagon effect
37. Awareness that language is something that can be mastered
Milestones in Spelling/correct stage
fiction
high frequency word recognition
metalinguistic awareness
38. The ability to connect two letters together - also known as 'sounding out'
spelling
concepts of print
dyslexia
blending
39. The social - physical and cultural backgrounds that affect how language is learned
pragmatics
dyslexia
phonological awareness
brainstorming
40. The act of posting the final work - good writing should be shared and celebrated
dangling modifiers
metaphor
publication
Milestones in Reading/pre - alphabetic
41. Skills can increase learning's efficiency and effectiveness
literacy
over - regularizations
metacognitive approach
phonology
42. Being convineced by a position's popularity
habituation
short story
universal grammar
bandwagon effect
43. An accurate history ofa single person
biography
zone of proximal development
appositive
diphthong
44. The ability to read with the appropriate speed and intonation
alphabetic principle
compound sentences
fluency
habituation
45. The phase in which a reader looks over punctuation and spelling and grammatical correctness -
parody
Milestones of language acquistion/two to five years
first draft
revision and editing
46. Telegraphic speech(words without affixes or function words)
alphabetic principle
Milestones of language acquistion/eighteen months to thirty months
compound sentences
Milestones in Reading/milddle to late alphabetic
47. Cooing to babbling
Milestones in Reading/ornographic
dyslexia
tales
Milestones of language acquistion/birth to one year
48. Children with low phonological awareness who also have trouble blending speech sounds and segmenting
Milestones of language acquistion/seven years to adulthood
false casality
dyslexia
misplaced modifier
49. 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.
universal grammar
biography
autobiography
mind map
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
begging the question
faulty logic
allusion
short story