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CSET Subtest English
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cset
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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
fiction
concluding sentence
mind map
begging the question
2. Early word errors that toddlers make
Milestones of language acquistion/two to five years
underextensions
dyslexia
brainstorming
3. An opinion that is disgiuised as a fact
free - writing
faulty logic
Milestones of language acquistion/two to five years
concepts of print
4. An accurate history ofa single person
archetypes
Milestones of language acquistion/birth to one year
biography
informal assessment
5. Being convineced by a position's popularity
concepts about print
satire
Milestones in Spelling/pre - communicative
bandwagon effect
6. Occurs in grades k to 1: letters are conenected tro sounds
high frequency word recognition
prewriting
free - writing
Milestones in Reading/early alphabetic
7. Can be defined by its agenda and purpose
pursuasive writing and speech
oxymoron
pragmatics
informal assessment
8. 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
underextensions
satire
phonology
second language acuqisition
9. A test that evaluates how well the learning has come along
metalinguistic awareness
Milestones in Spelling/pre - communicative
blending
formal assessment
10. A combination of opposites - like 'feather of lead'
oxymoron
alphabetic principle
Milestones in Spelling/correct stage
revision and editing
11. The act to write dow nany idea as they come without regard to structure or grammar
Milestones of language acquistion/eighteen months to thirty months
phonology
autobiography
free - writing
12. The study in which the ways words - sentences and sounds are used to convey language aka VOCABULARY
myth
habituation
semantics
Milestones of language acquistion/birth to one year
13. A reference to something outside a work of literature - like to a literary event - person or work
Child directed speech
allusion
phonemes
underextensions
14. The phase in which a reader looks over punctuation and spelling and grammatical correctness -
universal grammar
alphabetic principle
phonology
revision and editing
15. The study of word structures based on the prefixes and suffixes that the words come from
Milestones of language acquistion/two to five years
Milestones of language acquistion/birth to one year
oxymoron
morphology
16. When a vowel is combined with an 'r' like 'or' or 'ur'
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17. Songlike; characterized by emotion - subjectivity and imagination
Milestones in Spelling/correct stage
lyrical
Milestones in Spelling/transitional stage
high frequency word recognition
18. Decoding and creating written words - using proper spelling - also includes the ability to listen - speak - read - and write and obtain and retrieve information
literacy
second language acuqisition
spelling
prewriting
19. Through spelling tests - teachers can determine the spelling stage that a student is at
spelling inventory
concluding sentence
universal grammar
autobiography
20. 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
faulty logic
pragmatics
short story
satire
21. Holophrastic speech (one word utters like ball)
concepts about print
phonological awareness
phonemes
Milestones of language acquistion/one to two years
22. 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
squinting modifier
semantics
bandwagon effect
zone of proximal development
23. The technqiue designed to help the writer develop and organize their thoughts
short story
pursuasive writing and speech
non - fiction
prewriting
24. Language that does not literally mean what it says - like the 'black bat night has flown the coop'
figurative language
allusion
lyrical
literacy
25. Intermediate language fluency
metalinguistic awareness
Milestones of language acquistion/five to seven years
Milestones of language acquistion/seven years to adulthood
simile
26. The stage in which a child learns how to spell a word correctly by memory
allusion
Milestones of language acquistion/one to two years
Milestones in Spelling/correct stage
universal grammar
27. Models of patterns recognizable for their characteristics like the wicked stepmother
Milestones in Reading/early alphabetic
compound sentences
archetypes
alphabet knowledge
28. Increasing fluency. An elementary student acquires 12 words daily!
Milestones of language acquistion/seven years to adulthood
phonemes
allusion
literacy
29. Sentences that have two clauses that could be independent but are connected by a conjunction.
misplaced modifier
oral reading inventory
non - fiction
compound sentences
30. The idea that the written language represents that sounds of spoken languages
high frequency word recognition
alphabetic principle
personification
brainstorming
31. Sentence structure - which is noun - verb and adjective
syntax
morphemes
high frequency word recognition
publication
32. Emergent speech/grammar explosion
syntax
Milestones of language acquistion/two to five years
Milestones in Spelling/pre - communicative
blending
33. A story that was used to make sense of the world - like a story about a higher power
alphabet knowledge
short story
myth
tales
34. Occurs grades two to three: children can read larger words in print and accuracy and speed in reading are stressed
semantics
morphemes
Milestones in Reading/ornographic
spelling
35. A humorous form that mimics the styles of another work - like song parodies
parody
morphemes
high frequency word recognition
blending
36. 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.
second language acuqisition
universal grammar
fast mapping
Milestones of language acquistion/two to five years
37. Graded passages that show at what level a student can read at
misplaced modifier
universal grammar
false casality
oral reading inventory
38. A story that exposes humorously the foibles - vices and follies of a group or a system
concepts of print
formal assessment
satire
archetypes
39. Children with low phonological awareness who also have trouble blending speech sounds and segmenting
concepts of print
morphology
dyslexia
Child directed speech
40. 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
universal grammar
body sentence
squinting modifier
Milestones in Spelling/transitional stage
41. An author's account of their life
'r - controlled'
personification
autobiography
universal grammar
42. The ability to read with the appropriate speed and intonation
fluency
allegory
Milestones of language acquistion/five to seven years
syntax
43. A sentence that is often the last or next - to - last sentence and is the least essential in the paragraph
false casality
concluding sentence
myth
phonology
44. Occurs in grades 1 to 2: vowels are included
oral reading inventory
Milestones in Reading/milddle to late alphabetic
Milestones of language acquistion/two to five years
Milestones in Spelling/correct stage
45. 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
paragraph
Milestones in Spelling/transitional stage
squinting modifier
allegory
46. The act of transforming one thing into another in a story
short story
paragraph
metaphor
first draft
47. An assumption without argument - Because I always tell the truth - I am not lying to you now.
mind map
begging the question
alphabetic principle
red herring
48. A technique of pre - writing in which the writer writes any ideas without limit
brainstorming
prewriting
short story
concepts about print
49. Works that are invented by the writer
diphthong
morphology
fiction
Milestones in Spelling/phonetic stage
50. When children begin to use past tenses and plurals in speeches
dyslexia
mind map
metaphor
over - regularizations