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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. The study of word structures based on the prefixes and suffixes that the words come from
morphology
language acquisition device
satire
informal assessment
2. Graded passages that show at what level a student can read at
second language acuqisition
pragmatics
oral reading inventory
Milestones of language acquistion/eighteen months to thirty months
3. Decoding and creating written words - using proper spelling - also includes the ability to listen - speak - read - and write and obtain and retrieve information
literacy
metalinguistic awareness
Milestones of language acquistion/one to two years
short story
4. When children realize that letters represent sounds - may know only a few letters in the alphabet
pursuasive writing and speech
spelling inventory
metaphor
Milestones in Spelling/pre - communicative
5. 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'
personification
Milestones in Spelling/semi - phonetic stage
Milestones of language acquistion/eighteen months to thirty months
concluding sentence
6. Occurs in grades k to 1: letters are conenected tro sounds
allusion
personification
Milestones in Reading/early alphabetic
short story
7. A story that was used to make sense of the world - like a story about a higher power
morphemes
dyslexia
myth
morphology
8. A story that odriginated and deeloped over time and was passed on from generations to generations
underextensions
tales
body sentence
concepts about print
9. Language that does not literally mean what it says - like the 'black bat night has flown the coop'
Milestones in Spelling/semi - phonetic stage
fluency
allegory
figurative language
10. When a young child can use the context to quickly arrive to the understanding of a word's meaning
alphabetic principle
blending
fast mapping
figurative language
11. A test that evaluates how well the learning has come along
dangling modifiers
Child directed speech
formal assessment
over - regularizations
12. Models of patterns recognizable for their characteristics like the wicked stepmother
compound sentences
Milestones of language acquistion/birth to one year
archetypes
alphabetic principle
13. An opinion that is disgiuised as a fact
squinting modifier
misplaced modifier
parody
faulty logic
14. 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 Reading/ornographic
Milestones in Spelling/phonetic stage
spelling
semantics
15. 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
simile
concepts of print
mind map
fluency
16. A reference to something outside a work of literature - like to a literary event - person or work
overgeneralization
allusion
Milestones of language acquistion/eighteen months to thirty months
digraph
17. 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
free - writing
metalinguistic awareness
digraph
second language acuqisition
18. Understanding the fact that words are comprised of sounds known as phonemes
morphemes
phonological awareness
faulty logic
concluding sentence
19. Idenetify letters and can form letters
red herring
Milestones of language acquistion/eighteen months to thirty months
alphabet knowledge
topic sentence
20. Holophrastic speech (one word utters like ball)
concepts about print
figurative language
digraph
Milestones of language acquistion/one to two years
21. 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
squinting modifier
ad hominem
Milestones of language acquistion/five to seven years
Milestones in Reading/milddle to late alphabetic
22. The social - physical and cultural backgrounds that affect how language is learned
pragmatics
fast mapping
concluding sentence
high frequency word recognition
23. Early word errors that toddlers make
underextensions
misplaced modifier
phonology
literacy
24. The ability to connect two letters together - also known as 'sounding out'
Milestones in Spelling/correct stage
Milestones in Reading/pre - alphabetic
blending
oxymoron
25. A noun - or noun phrase - that names the noun next to it - like 'The insect - a cockroach....'
syntax
appositive
fiction
blending
26. Knows about books and that books tell stories
figurative language
concepts about print
false casality
Milestones in Spelling/phonetic stage
27. The study of the way sounds function in a language
metaphor
Milestones in Reading/early alphabetic
misplaced modifier
phonology
28. Treating two or more coincidences as if one caused the other 'Martin Luther King's birth caused the civil rights march'
false casality
concepts about print
phonological awareness
ad hominem
29. When a vowel is combined with an 'r' like 'or' or 'ur'
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30. A modifier that does not logically refer tothe statement immediately following it
concepts of print
dangling modifiers
topic sentence
zone of proximal development
31. A blending of vowel words like 'ou' in 'out
morphemes
reading
diphthong
concepts about print
32. Songlike; characterized by emotion - subjectivity and imagination
lyrical
alphabetic principle
language acquisition device
faulty logic
33. Supporting details - analysis and eividence expanding on the topic sentence
Milestones of language acquistion/two to five years
literacy
squinting modifier
body sentence
34. Written representation of a 'phoneme' (the letter 'b' or 'p')
grapheme
fast mapping
digraph
archetypes
35. A humorous form that mimics the styles of another work - like song parodies
free - writing
zone of proximal development
biography
parody
36. Increasing fluency. An elementary student acquires 12 words daily!
Milestones of language acquistion/seven years to adulthood
alphabet knowledge
allegory
phonological awareness
37. Intermediate language fluency
biography
Milestones of language acquistion/five to seven years
language acquisition device
body sentence
38. The idea of stereotyping - don't trust someone over thirty
parody
simile
overgeneralization
oxymoron
39. A modifier that is placed to close to a word that it should not modify
misplaced modifier
brainstorming
oxymoron
phonology
40. A write - up of the essay that gets every idea down on the sheet of opaper
biography
archetypes
parody
first draft
41. Two letters that make one speech sound - like 'th' or 'sh'
myth
metalinguistic awareness
Milestones in Reading/early alphabetic
digraph
42. 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
satire
'r - controlled'
Milestones in Reading/milddle to late alphabetic
Milestones in Spelling/transitional stage
43. An accurate history ofa single person
prewriting
autobiography
biography
Child directed speech
44. Telegraphic speech(words without affixes or function words)
Milestones of language acquistion/eighteen months to thirty months
myth
underextensions
zone of proximal development
45. The idea that the written language represents that sounds of spoken languages
alphabetic principle
habituation
Milestones in Reading/pre - alphabetic
red herring
46. Occurs grades two to three: children can read larger words in print and accuracy and speed in reading are stressed
Milestones in Reading/pre - alphabetic
Milestones of language acquistion/eighteen months to thirty months
Milestones in Spelling/phonetic stage
Milestones in Reading/ornographic
47. Occurs before kindergarten in which text progresses left to right
Milestones in Spelling/phonetic stage
Milestones in Reading/pre - alphabetic
Milestones of language acquistion/one to two years
free - writing
48. Awareness that language is something that can be mastered
tales
archetypes
metalinguistic awareness
Milestones in Reading/pre - alphabetic
49. Ongoing classroom activities focused on individual achievements
alphabetic principle
informal assessment
spelling
digraph
50. Skills can increase learning's efficiency and effectiveness
false casality
concepts of print
metacognitive approach
morphemes