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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
Milestones in Spelling/pre - communicative
personification
faulty logic
'r - controlled'
2. When children realize that letters represent sounds - may know only a few letters in the alphabet
semantics
Milestones in Spelling/phonetic stage
Milestones in Spelling/pre - communicative
dangling modifiers
3. Holophrastic speech (one word utters like ball)
Milestones of language acquistion/one to two years
high frequency word recognition
over - regularizations
biography
4. Through spelling tests - teachers can determine the spelling stage that a student is at
spelling inventory
brainstorming
formal assessment
high frequency word recognition
5. Graded passages that show at what level a student can read at
Milestones in Reading/pre - alphabetic
oral reading inventory
diphthong
alphabet knowledge
6. 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
allegory
high frequency word recognition
paragraph
7. Intermediate language fluency
figurative language
allusion
metaphor
Milestones of language acquistion/five to seven years
8. 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
phonemes
literacy
red herring
zone of proximal development
9. Occurs grades two to three: children can read larger words in print and accuracy and speed in reading are stressed
short story
'r - controlled'
Milestones of language acquistion/one to two years
Milestones in Reading/ornographic
10. An assumption without argument - Because I always tell the truth - I am not lying to you now.
begging the question
Milestones in Reading/pre - alphabetic
lyrical
appositive
11. A story that exposes humorously the foibles - vices and follies of a group or a system
free - writing
informal assessment
'r - controlled'
satire
12. 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
Milestones of language acquistion/birth to one year
short story
diphthong
13. A modifier that is placed to close to a word that it should not modify
high frequency word recognition
myth
alphabet knowledge
misplaced modifier
14. Increasing fluency. An elementary student acquires 12 words daily!
body sentence
habituation
phonemes
Milestones of language acquistion/seven years to adulthood
15. A humorous form that mimics the styles of another work - like song parodies
Milestones of language acquistion/two to five years
paragraph
parody
Milestones in Reading/pre - alphabetic
16. An author's account of their life
phonemes
spelling
alphabet knowledge
autobiography
17. The phase in which a reader looks over punctuation and spelling and grammatical correctness -
overgeneralization
fast mapping
revision and editing
Milestones of language acquistion/birth to one year
18. A group of sentences based on a similar topic
non - fiction
paragraph
digraph
fluency
19. The act of posting the final work - good writing should be shared and celebrated
Milestones in Reading/pre - alphabetic
fluency
non - fiction
publication
20. The idea of stereotyping - don't trust someone over thirty
compound sentences
overgeneralization
second language acuqisition
metalinguistic awareness
21. Ongoing classroom activities focused on individual achievements
brainstorming
informal assessment
figurative language
tales
22. Supporting details - analysis and eividence expanding on the topic sentence
Milestones in Spelling/correct stage
concluding sentence
body sentence
fiction
23. The study of the way sounds function in a language
ad hominem
dangling modifiers
phonology
archetypes
24. A story that was used to make sense of the world - like a story about a higher power
topic sentence
informal assessment
squinting modifier
myth
25. Language that does not literally mean what it says - like the 'black bat night has flown the coop'
body sentence
alphabet knowledge
figurative language
metacognitive approach
26. A modifier that does not logically refer tothe statement immediately following it
Milestones in Reading/pre - alphabetic
Milestones of language acquistion/five to seven years
squinting modifier
dangling modifiers
27. A technique of pre - writing in which the writer writes any ideas without limit
universal grammar
brainstorming
dangling modifiers
Milestones in Spelling/semi - phonetic stage
28. Idenetify letters and can form letters
red herring
high frequency word recognition
Milestones in Spelling/transitional stage
alphabet knowledge
29. Sentence structure - which is noun - verb and adjective
pursuasive writing and speech
syntax
begging the question
publication
30. Occurs in grades k to 1: letters are conenected tro sounds
Milestones in Reading/early alphabetic
concepts about print
false casality
Milestones in Reading/pre - alphabetic
31. Occurs before kindergarten in which text progresses left to right
non - fiction
paragraph
Milestones in Reading/pre - alphabetic
ad hominem
32. An opinion that is disgiuised as a fact
faulty logic
Milestones of language acquistion/two to five years
squinting modifier
Milestones in Reading/early alphabetic
33. Being convineced by a position's popularity
bandwagon effect
phonemes
Milestones of language acquistion/birth to one year
second language acuqisition
34. The study of word structures based on the prefixes and suffixes that the words come from
reading
morphology
metacognitive approach
semantics
35. 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
semantics
Milestones in Spelling/transitional stage
concluding sentence
archetypes
36. When children begin to use past tenses and plurals in speeches
morphology
over - regularizations
topic sentence
concepts about print
37. Can be defined by its agenda and purpose
body sentence
pursuasive writing and speech
Child directed speech
semantics
38. A sentence that is often the last or next - to - last sentence and is the least essential in the paragraph
Milestones in Spelling/pre - communicative
alphabet knowledge
concluding sentence
red herring
39. Works that have happened in real life. usually with a purpose and especially to inform
overgeneralization
language acquisition device
allusion
non - fiction
40. The act of transforming one thing into another in a story
metaphor
ad hominem
universal grammar
metacognitive approach
41. Children with low phonological awareness who also have trouble blending speech sounds and segmenting
digraph
dyslexia
grapheme
literacy
42. Spelling has been traditionally taught through memorization but phonemic awareness may be the key to improving spelling in its five stages of development
Child directed speech
metacognitive approach
over - regularizations
spelling
43. Awareness that language is something that can be mastered
metalinguistic awareness
red herring
'r - controlled'
Milestones of language acquistion/five to seven years
44. A noun - or noun phrase - that names the noun next to it - like 'The insect - a cockroach....'
biography
Child directed speech
appositive
phonological awareness
45. An extended metaphor that is carried through an entire narrative like 'Everyman'
spelling inventory
concepts of print
allegory
oxymoron
46. Two letters that make one speech sound - like 'th' or 'sh'
simile
paragraph
digraph
fiction
47. Songlike; characterized by emotion - subjectivity and imagination
faulty logic
lyrical
free - writing
red herring
48. An accurate history ofa single person
Milestones of language acquistion/one to two years
biography
underextensions
Milestones in Reading/milddle to late alphabetic
49. Works that are invented by the writer
Milestones in Spelling/semi - phonetic stage
dangling modifiers
Milestones in Reading/ornographic
fiction
50. The ability to connect two letters together - also known as 'sounding out'
dyslexia
diphthong
blending
Milestones in Reading/milddle to late alphabetic