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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 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
mind map
underextensions
spelling
language acquisition device
2. An assumption without argument - Because I always tell the truth - I am not lying to you now.
begging the question
formal assessment
bandwagon effect
Milestones in Spelling/semi - phonetic stage
3. The social - physical and cultural backgrounds that affect how language is learned
biography
pragmatics
revision and editing
lyrical
4. Telegraphic speech(words without affixes or function words)
myth
Milestones of language acquistion/eighteen months to thirty months
phonology
syntax
5. Awareness that language is something that can be mastered
second language acuqisition
fiction
phonology
metalinguistic awareness
6. Spelling has been traditionally taught through memorization but phonemic awareness may be the key to improving spelling in its five stages of development
spelling
morphology
begging the question
archetypes
7. Models of patterns recognizable for their characteristics like the wicked stepmother
figurative language
tales
oxymoron
archetypes
8. Can be defined by its agenda and purpose
false casality
pursuasive writing and speech
alphabet knowledge
revision and editing
9. A story that exposes humorously the foibles - vices and follies of a group or a system
'r - controlled'
allegory
Milestones in Reading/milddle to late alphabetic
satire
10. Graded passages that show at what level a student can read at
metacognitive approach
oral reading inventory
semantics
fiction
11. Ongoing classroom activities focused on individual achievements
Milestones in Spelling/correct stage
informal assessment
dangling modifiers
Milestones of language acquistion/seven years to adulthood
12. A blending of vowel words like 'ou' in 'out
diphthong
Milestones in Reading/ornographic
lyrical
allegory
13. The act of transforming one thing into another in a story
fast mapping
metaphor
morphemes
spelling
14. A test that evaluates how well the learning has come along
Milestones in Spelling/transitional stage
topic sentence
formal assessment
body sentence
15. Holophrastic speech (one word utters like ball)
second language acuqisition
Milestones of language acquistion/one to two years
first draft
metalinguistic awareness
16. Idenetify letters and can form letters
Milestones in Spelling/phonetic stage
myth
alphabet knowledge
oxymoron
17. Treating two or more coincidences as if one caused the other 'Martin Luther King's birth caused the civil rights march'
oxymoron
false casality
diphthong
oral reading inventory
18. The ability to connect two letters together - also known as 'sounding out'
personification
blending
spelling
figurative language
19. Sentence structure - which is noun - verb and adjective
biography
squinting modifier
revision and editing
syntax
20. 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
Milestones of language acquistion/five to seven years
'r - controlled'
metacognitive approach
21. The idea that the written language represents that sounds of spoken languages
alphabetic principle
non - fiction
body sentence
brainstorming
22. When a young child can use the context to quickly arrive to the understanding of a word's meaning
Milestones of language acquistion/one to two years
figurative language
underextensions
fast mapping
23. Intermediate language fluency
ad hominem
Milestones of language acquistion/five to seven years
formal assessment
faulty logic
24. When infants and childrne repeat sounds that are reinforced
habituation
Milestones in Reading/ornographic
allegory
concepts of print
25. Occurs in grades 1 to 2: vowels are included
Milestones in Reading/milddle to late alphabetic
Milestones of language acquistion/birth to one year
formal assessment
red herring
26. Emergent speech/grammar explosion
Milestones of language acquistion/two to five years
pragmatics
appositive
Child directed speech
27. A story that was used to make sense of the world - like a story about a higher power
myth
dangling modifiers
pragmatics
brainstorming
28. A sentence that is often the last or next - to - last sentence and is the least essential in the paragraph
Milestones of language acquistion/one to two years
fluency
autobiography
concluding sentence
29. An attack launched against a person and the person's position - 'the candidate is a cowardly man'
metacognitive approach
ad hominem
'r - controlled'
prewriting
30. 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'
free - writing
alphabetic principle
digraph
Milestones in Spelling/phonetic stage
31. The study of word structures based on the prefixes and suffixes that the words come from
morphology
personification
Milestones of language acquistion/birth to one year
false casality
32. The act to write dow nany idea as they come without regard to structure or grammar
free - writing
underextensions
brainstorming
tales
33. Occurs grades two to three: children can read larger words in print and accuracy and speed in reading are stressed
Milestones in Reading/ornographic
Milestones in Reading/milddle to late alphabetic
language acquisition device
mind map
34. What the paragraph is all about - usually the first sentence
autobiography
diphthong
appositive
topic sentence
35. An extended metaphor that is carried through an entire narrative like 'Everyman'
phonological awareness
allegory
Milestones of language acquistion/birth to one year
topic sentence
36. A reference to something outside a work of literature - like to a literary event - person or work
allusion
digraph
paragraph
Milestones of language acquistion/two to five years
37. The realization that occurs in kindergarten that words should be read from left to right
squinting modifier
short story
concepts of print
Milestones of language acquistion/two to five years
38. Songlike; characterized by emotion - subjectivity and imagination
allegory
fluency
first draft
lyrical
39. Knows about books and that books tell stories
body sentence
universal grammar
concepts about print
phonemes
40. Being convineced by a position's popularity
concepts of print
bandwagon effect
brainstorming
non - fiction
41. A noun - or noun phrase - that names the noun next to it - like 'The insect - a cockroach....'
bandwagon effect
digraph
Milestones in Spelling/pre - communicative
appositive
42. Children with low phonological awareness who also have trouble blending speech sounds and segmenting
dyslexia
Milestones in Spelling/semi - phonetic stage
faulty logic
metacognitive approach
43. An opinion that is disgiuised as a fact
brainstorming
phonological awareness
begging the question
faulty logic
44. 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
paragraph
alphabetic principle
concepts about print
Milestones in Spelling/transitional stage
45. Sentences that have two clauses that could be independent but are connected by a conjunction.
compound sentences
mind map
paragraph
formal assessment
46. The act of posting the final work - good writing should be shared and celebrated
phonology
revision and editing
publication
Milestones in Spelling/phonetic stage
47. A modifier that does not logically refer tothe statement immediately following it
dangling modifiers
phonology
Milestones in Reading/pre - alphabetic
habituation
48. The stage in which a child learns how to spell a word correctly by memory
phonological awareness
Milestones in Spelling/correct stage
squinting modifier
'r - controlled'
49. A humorous form that mimics the styles of another work - like song parodies
parody
Milestones of language acquistion/one to two years
digraph
first draft
50. The technqiue designed to help the writer develop and organize their thoughts
pursuasive writing and speech
brainstorming
prewriting
Milestones of language acquistion/birth to one year