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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 combination of opposites - like 'feather of lead'
formal assessment
oxymoron
Milestones in Reading/pre - alphabetic
allegory
2. 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
Milestones of language acquistion/five to seven years
second language acuqisition
oral reading inventory
allusion
3. The study in which the ways words - sentences and sounds are used to convey language aka VOCABULARY
semantics
dyslexia
revision and editing
compound sentences
4. Idenetify letters and can form letters
Milestones of language acquistion/eighteen months to thirty months
alphabet knowledge
bandwagon effect
dangling modifiers
5. Occurs in grades 1 to 2: vowels are included
Milestones in Reading/milddle to late alphabetic
'r - controlled'
Milestones in Reading/ornographic
concluding sentence
6. Holophrastic speech (one word utters like ball)
spelling
non - fiction
Milestones of language acquistion/one to two years
personification
7. Decoding and creating written words - using proper spelling - also includes the ability to listen - speak - read - and write and obtain and retrieve information
literacy
satire
Milestones in Spelling/phonetic stage
Milestones of language acquistion/two to five years
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
overgeneralization
short story
Milestones in Reading/pre - alphabetic
squinting modifier
9. Intermediate language fluency
satire
metaphor
Milestones of language acquistion/five to seven years
faulty logic
10. 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
allegory
fast mapping
squinting modifier
metaphor
11. An assumption without argument - Because I always tell the truth - I am not lying to you now.
Milestones in Reading/pre - alphabetic
bandwagon effect
begging the question
formal assessment
12. Sound sequences that convey meanings like the words 'bat' and 'rat'
appositive
morphology
morphemes
autobiography
13. The act of posting the final work - good writing should be shared and celebrated
publication
biography
fast mapping
universal grammar
14. A sentence that is often the last or next - to - last sentence and is the least essential in the paragraph
language acquisition device
brainstorming
spelling inventory
concluding sentence
15. Graded passages that show at what level a student can read at
grapheme
oral reading inventory
fiction
begging the question
16. Occurs in grades k to 1: letters are conenected tro sounds
oxymoron
allusion
oral reading inventory
Milestones in Reading/early alphabetic
17. The study of word structures based on the prefixes and suffixes that the words come from
dyslexia
Milestones in Reading/ornographic
morphology
body sentence
18. When children begin to use past tenses and plurals in speeches
Milestones of language acquistion/birth to one year
phonology
over - regularizations
syntax
19. An accurate history ofa single person
zone of proximal development
oral reading inventory
biography
first draft
20. A story that was used to make sense of the world - like a story about a higher power
digraph
body sentence
myth
allusion
21. A technique of pre - writing in which the writer writes any ideas without limit
spelling inventory
semantics
brainstorming
tales
22. An extended metaphor that is carried through an entire narrative like 'Everyman'
misplaced modifier
allegory
red herring
allusion
23. A blending of vowel words like 'ou' in 'out
red herring
faulty logic
diphthong
metacognitive approach
24. When children realize that letters represent sounds - may know only a few letters in the alphabet
high frequency word recognition
blending
Milestones in Spelling/pre - communicative
overgeneralization
25. A reference to something outside a work of literature - like to a literary event - person or work
pragmatics
bandwagon effect
spelling inventory
allusion
26. Early word errors that toddlers make
underextensions
alphabetic principle
fast mapping
Milestones in Spelling/correct stage
27. Written representation of a 'phoneme' (the letter 'b' or 'p')
fiction
high frequency word recognition
phonemes
grapheme
28. The act of transforming one thing into another in a story
Milestones in Reading/early alphabetic
zone of proximal development
universal grammar
metaphor
29. Telegraphic speech(words without affixes or function words)
formal assessment
Milestones of language acquistion/eighteen months to thirty months
grapheme
publication
30. A test that evaluates how well the learning has come along
topic sentence
formal assessment
diphthong
bandwagon effect
31. Language that does not literally mean what it says - like the 'black bat night has flown the coop'
myth
free - writing
figurative language
morphemes
32. Being convineced by a position's popularity
ad hominem
semantics
Milestones in Spelling/transitional stage
bandwagon effect
33. Occurs before kindergarten in which text progresses left to right
zone of proximal development
Milestones of language acquistion/seven years to adulthood
Milestones in Reading/pre - alphabetic
bandwagon effect
34. When infants and childrne repeat sounds that are reinforced
fiction
Milestones in Reading/milddle to late alphabetic
habituation
blending
35. What the paragraph is all about - usually the first sentence
topic sentence
language acquisition device
alphabet knowledge
first draft
36. Sounds that signal different meanings like'b' and 't'
digraph
prewriting
phonemes
Milestones of language acquistion/five to seven years
37. A story that exposes humorously the foibles - vices and follies of a group or a system
satire
spelling
appositive
Milestones in Spelling/transitional stage
38. The idea that the written language represents that sounds of spoken languages
revision and editing
high frequency word recognition
alphabetic principle
squinting modifier
39. 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'
Milestones in Spelling/phonetic stage
Milestones in Reading/milddle to late alphabetic
figurative language
phonology
40. 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'
misplaced modifier
underextensions
Milestones in Spelling/semi - phonetic stage
squinting modifier
41. A modifier that does not logically refer tothe statement immediately following it
dangling modifiers
morphology
Milestones in Reading/ornographic
prewriting
42. Two letters that make one speech sound - like 'th' or 'sh'
simile
publication
underextensions
digraph
43. 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
high frequency word recognition
dangling modifiers
reading
allusion
44. A write - up of the essay that gets every idea down on the sheet of opaper
reading
squinting modifier
first draft
alphabet knowledge
45. The realization that occurs in kindergarten that words should be read from left to right
spelling
concepts of print
grapheme
high frequency word recognition
46. Sentences that have two clauses that could be independent but are connected by a conjunction.
reading
fiction
compound sentences
Milestones of language acquistion/five to seven years
47. The technqiue designed to help the writer develop and organize their thoughts
second language acuqisition
compound sentences
body sentence
prewriting
48. Understanding the fact that words are comprised of sounds known as phonemes
phonological awareness
universal grammar
fluency
morphemes
49. Cooing to babbling
Milestones of language acquistion/birth to one year
second language acuqisition
lyrical
Milestones of language acquistion/eighteen months to thirty months
50. Sentence structure - which is noun - verb and adjective
syntax
red herring
lyrical
pursuasive writing and speech