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CSET Subtest English

Subjects : cset, 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'






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






3. The study in which the ways words - sentences and sounds are used to convey language aka VOCABULARY






4. Idenetify letters and can form letters






5. Occurs in grades 1 to 2: vowels are included






6. Holophrastic speech (one word utters like ball)






7. Decoding and creating written words - using proper spelling - also includes the ability to listen - speak - read - and write and obtain and retrieve information






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






9. Intermediate language fluency






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






11. An assumption without argument - Because I always tell the truth - I am not lying to you now.






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






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






14. A sentence that is often the last or next - to - last sentence and is the least essential in the paragraph






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






16. Occurs in grades k to 1: letters are conenected tro sounds






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






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






19. An accurate history ofa single person






20. A story that was used to make sense of the world - like a story about a higher power






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






22. An extended metaphor that is carried through an entire narrative like 'Everyman'






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






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






25. A reference to something outside a work of literature - like to a literary event - person or work






26. Early word errors that toddlers make






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






28. The act of transforming one thing into another in a story






29. Telegraphic speech(words without affixes or function words)






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






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






32. Being convineced by a position's popularity






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






34. When infants and childrne repeat sounds that are reinforced






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






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






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






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






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'






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'






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






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






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






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






45. The realization that occurs in kindergarten that words should be read from left to right






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






47. The technqiue designed to help the writer develop and organize their thoughts






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






49. Cooing to babbling






50. Sentence structure - which is noun - verb and adjective