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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. Supporting details - analysis and eividence expanding on the topic sentence
pursuasive writing and speech
concluding sentence
body sentence
underextensions
2. The phase in which a reader looks over punctuation and spelling and grammatical correctness -
literacy
diphthong
dangling modifiers
revision and editing
3. Ongoing classroom activities focused on individual achievements
informal assessment
alphabetic principle
semantics
paragraph
4. Holophrastic speech (one word utters like ball)
false casality
free - writing
concluding sentence
Milestones of language acquistion/one to two years
5. The ability to read with the appropriate speed and intonation
Milestones of language acquistion/birth to one year
fluency
fast mapping
spelling
6. The technqiue designed to help the writer develop and organize their thoughts
alphabet knowledge
allusion
false casality
prewriting
7. Occurs before kindergarten in which text progresses left to right
reading
Milestones in Reading/pre - alphabetic
tales
Milestones of language acquistion/eighteen months to thirty months
8. Understanding the fact that words are comprised of sounds known as phonemes
pursuasive writing and speech
phonological awareness
formal assessment
Milestones in Spelling/semi - phonetic stage
9. Early word errors that toddlers make
morphemes
overgeneralization
red herring
underextensions
10. A story that exposes humorously the foibles - vices and follies of a group or a system
diphthong
morphemes
satire
informal assessment
11. Being convineced by a position's popularity
bandwagon effect
semantics
compound sentences
personification
12. When children realize that letters represent sounds - may know only a few letters in the alphabet
alphabetic principle
free - writing
syntax
Milestones in Spelling/pre - communicative
13. A modifier that does not logically refer tothe statement immediately following it
personification
free - writing
dangling modifiers
short story
14. The study of word structures based on the prefixes and suffixes that the words come from
morphology
non - fiction
habituation
oral reading inventory
15. Telegraphic speech(words without affixes or function words)
metaphor
Milestones of language acquistion/eighteen months to thirty months
paragraph
blending
16. Increasing fluency. An elementary student acquires 12 words daily!
Milestones of language acquistion/seven years to adulthood
compound sentences
alphabet knowledge
parody
17. An opinion that is disgiuised as a fact
Milestones of language acquistion/one to two years
phonology
reading
faulty logic
18. 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
ad hominem
spelling
habituation
short story
19. A write - up of the essay that gets every idea down on the sheet of opaper
literacy
short story
first draft
squinting modifier
20. An author's account of their life
autobiography
underextensions
concepts of print
blending
21. The act of posting the final work - good writing should be shared and celebrated
mind map
Milestones of language acquistion/one to two years
publication
fast mapping
22. The realization that occurs in kindergarten that words should be read from left to right
alphabet knowledge
compound sentences
dangling modifiers
concepts of print
23. Refcognizes word recognition out of context
parody
revision and editing
universal grammar
high frequency word recognition
24. The stage in which a child learns how to spell a word correctly by memory
personification
revision and editing
Milestones in Spelling/correct stage
short story
25. When a vowel is combined with an 'r' like 'or' or 'ur'
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26. Language that does not literally mean what it says - like the 'black bat night has flown the coop'
publication
body sentence
figurative language
formal assessment
27. Works that have happened in real life. usually with a purpose and especially to inform
non - fiction
Milestones in Reading/early alphabetic
short story
informal assessment
28. Idenetify letters and can form letters
spelling
concluding sentence
satire
alphabet knowledge
29. Spelling has been traditionally taught through memorization but phonemic awareness may be the key to improving spelling in its five stages of development
squinting modifier
digraph
informal assessment
spelling
30. The comparison of two different objects using the word 'like' or 'as'
simile
false casality
reading
misplaced modifier
31. Skills can increase learning's efficiency and effectiveness
universal grammar
fluency
metacognitive approach
metaphor
32. Adults modify their speech to make it easier for children to learn languages - including sentence structures and repeating key words
archetypes
alphabetic principle
prewriting
Child directed speech
33. The study of the way sounds function in a language
habituation
universal grammar
topic sentence
phonology
34. An assumption without argument - Because I always tell the truth - I am not lying to you now.
begging the question
fast mapping
topic sentence
zone of proximal development
35. Awareness that language is something that can be mastered
metalinguistic awareness
bandwagon effect
fluency
morphology
36. A combination of opposites - like 'feather of lead'
metaphor
oxymoron
mind map
non - fiction
37. 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/correct stage
Milestones in Spelling/semi - phonetic stage
Milestones in Reading/ornographic
38. Sentences that have two clauses that could be independent but are connected by a conjunction.
biography
metacognitive approach
compound sentences
formal assessment
39. 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
reading
non - fiction
Child directed speech
prewriting
40. 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
brainstorming
Milestones in Spelling/pre - communicative
satire
mind map
41. A group of sentences based on a similar topic
appositive
publication
literacy
paragraph
42. The idea that the written language represents that sounds of spoken languages
language acquisition device
alphabetic principle
free - writing
spelling
43. The act of transforming one thing into another in a story
Milestones of language acquistion/two to five years
universal grammar
metaphor
syntax
44. What the paragraph is all about - usually the first sentence
topic sentence
allegory
faulty logic
over - regularizations
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
concepts of print
squinting modifier
Milestones in Reading/early alphabetic
personification
46. Graded passages that show at what level a student can read at
over - regularizations
simile
oral reading inventory
allegory
47. The study in which the ways words - sentences and sounds are used to convey language aka VOCABULARY
semantics
appositive
phonological awareness
alphabet knowledge
48. A test that evaluates how well the learning has come along
Milestones of language acquistion/one to two years
formal assessment
pursuasive writing and speech
publication
49. Through spelling tests - teachers can determine the spelling stage that a student is at
false casality
grapheme
spelling inventory
informal assessment
50. Emergent speech/grammar explosion
appositive
squinting modifier
Milestones of language acquistion/two to five years
tales