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CSET Subtest English

Subjects : cset, english
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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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. 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'






2. A story that exposes humorously the foibles - vices and follies of a group or a system






3. A write - up of the essay that gets every idea down on the sheet of opaper






4. Sounds that signal different meanings like'b' and 't'






5. Graded passages that show at what level a student can read at






6. A test that evaluates how well the learning has come along






7. An accurate history ofa single person






8. Sound sequences that convey meanings like the words 'bat' and 'rat'






9. A technique of pre - writing in which the writer writes any ideas without limit






10. A blending of vowel words like 'ou' in 'out






11. Being convineced by a position's popularity






12. Occurs grades two to three: children can read larger words in print and accuracy and speed in reading are stressed






13. Spelling has been traditionally taught through memorization but phonemic awareness may be the key to improving spelling in its five stages of development






14. Knows about books and that books tell stories






15. Occurs before kindergarten in which text progresses left to right






16. A modifier that does not logically refer tothe statement immediately following it






17. Through spelling tests - teachers can determine the spelling stage that a student is at






18. Increasing fluency. An elementary student acquires 12 words daily!






19. A noun - or noun phrase - that names the noun next to it - like 'The insect - a cockroach....'






20. A humorous form that mimics the styles of another work - like song parodies






21. The ability to connect two letters together - also known as 'sounding out'






22. The idea that the written language represents that sounds of spoken languages






23. Understanding the fact that words are comprised of sounds known as phonemes






24. Two letters that make one speech sound - like 'th' or 'sh'






25. When infants and childrne repeat sounds that are reinforced






26. Works that have happened in real life. usually with a purpose and especially to inform






27. 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






28. 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.






29. The idea of stereotyping - don't trust someone over thirty






30. Skills can increase learning's efficiency and effectiveness






31. When children begin to use past tenses and plurals in speeches






32. 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






33. The act of posting the final work - good writing should be shared and celebrated






34. A combination of opposites - like 'feather of lead'






35. Ongoing classroom activities focused on individual achievements






36. Works that are invented by the writer






37. Sentences that have two clauses that could be independent but are connected by a conjunction.






38. Intermediate language fluency






39. Children with low phonological awareness who also have trouble blending speech sounds and segmenting






40. Attributing human qualities to a non - human animal or object






41. An opinion that is disgiuised as a fact






42. An irrelevant point used to distract from an argument at hand






43. What the paragraph is all about - usually the first sentence






44. Holophrastic speech (one word utters like ball)






45. Supporting details - analysis and eividence expanding on the topic sentence






46. An attack launched against a person and the person's position - 'the candidate is a cowardly man'






47. Written representation of a 'phoneme' (the letter 'b' or 'p')






48. The study of word structures based on the prefixes and suffixes that the words come from






49. When children realize that letters represent sounds - may know only a few letters in the alphabet






50. Language that does not literally mean what it says - like the 'black bat night has flown the coop'







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