RICA 2026 COMPREHENSIVE TEST PAPER
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS
◉ How to Assess Fluency? Answer: Through Oral reading:
1. Accuracy - Running Record
2. Rate - Words correct per minute (wcpm) there are criteria for
each grade level. These are called "timed readings"
3. Prosody - (expression) appropriate pitch, response to
punctuation, characterization.
◉ Role in Reading Development and Factors that Affect
Development: What are the 5 different vocabularies a person has?
Answer: 1. Listening Vocab
2. Speaking Vocab
3. Writing Vocab
4. Sight (Reading) Vocab
5. Meaning (Reading) Vocab
◉ What is Listening Vocabulary? Answer: your listening vocabulary
consists of the words you understand when listening to other people
speak.
,◉ What is Speaking Vocabulary? Answer: Your speaking vocab
consists of the words you use when you talk. It is always smaller
than your listening vocab.
◉ What is Writing Vocabulary? Answer: Writing vocab consists of
the words you use when you write.
◉ What is Sight (Reading) Vocabulary? Answer: Your sight
vocabulary consists of the words you can recognize and correctly
pronounce.
◉ What is Meaning (Reading) Vocabulary? Answer: Your meaning
vocab consists of words you understand when reading silently. The
focus of this chapter and the next is on helping children expand their
knowledge of word meanings
◉ What is Academic language? Answer: 1. The language used in
textbooks and tests
2. Technical (or specific) academic language. For example History:
Popular sovereignty, monarchy, tyranny
3. Non-technical academic language - runs across all disciplines such
as: theory,analysis,synthesis
, ◉ What is background knowledge? Answer: refers to what you know
about a specific topic. students will not comprehend what they are
reading if they lack essential background knowledge on the topic.
background knowledge is the foundation upon which greater
knowledge can be built.
◉ In order to comprehend a text, a reader must have adequately
developed what 3 things? Answer: 1. meaning vocabulary
2. academic language knowledge
3. background knowledge
◉ 4 effective strategies to teach the meaning of words? Answer: 1.
Contextual Redefinition - make use of the context surrounding the
target word.
2. Semantic Maps - (word maps or semantic webs) diagrams used in
prereading instruction teach meaning of words & activate prior
knowledge
3. Semantic Feature Analysis - good for a set of words that share
atleast 1 characteristic (a chart).
4. Word Sorts - compare and contrast words
◉ What is Contextual Redefinition? Answer: It is an effective
strategy to teach the meaning of words.
It makes use of the context surrounding the target word.
1. Worksheet - each target word appears 4 times
QUESTIONS WITH VERIFIED ANSWERS
◉ How to Assess Fluency? Answer: Through Oral reading:
1. Accuracy - Running Record
2. Rate - Words correct per minute (wcpm) there are criteria for
each grade level. These are called "timed readings"
3. Prosody - (expression) appropriate pitch, response to
punctuation, characterization.
◉ Role in Reading Development and Factors that Affect
Development: What are the 5 different vocabularies a person has?
Answer: 1. Listening Vocab
2. Speaking Vocab
3. Writing Vocab
4. Sight (Reading) Vocab
5. Meaning (Reading) Vocab
◉ What is Listening Vocabulary? Answer: your listening vocabulary
consists of the words you understand when listening to other people
speak.
,◉ What is Speaking Vocabulary? Answer: Your speaking vocab
consists of the words you use when you talk. It is always smaller
than your listening vocab.
◉ What is Writing Vocabulary? Answer: Writing vocab consists of
the words you use when you write.
◉ What is Sight (Reading) Vocabulary? Answer: Your sight
vocabulary consists of the words you can recognize and correctly
pronounce.
◉ What is Meaning (Reading) Vocabulary? Answer: Your meaning
vocab consists of words you understand when reading silently. The
focus of this chapter and the next is on helping children expand their
knowledge of word meanings
◉ What is Academic language? Answer: 1. The language used in
textbooks and tests
2. Technical (or specific) academic language. For example History:
Popular sovereignty, monarchy, tyranny
3. Non-technical academic language - runs across all disciplines such
as: theory,analysis,synthesis
, ◉ What is background knowledge? Answer: refers to what you know
about a specific topic. students will not comprehend what they are
reading if they lack essential background knowledge on the topic.
background knowledge is the foundation upon which greater
knowledge can be built.
◉ In order to comprehend a text, a reader must have adequately
developed what 3 things? Answer: 1. meaning vocabulary
2. academic language knowledge
3. background knowledge
◉ 4 effective strategies to teach the meaning of words? Answer: 1.
Contextual Redefinition - make use of the context surrounding the
target word.
2. Semantic Maps - (word maps or semantic webs) diagrams used in
prereading instruction teach meaning of words & activate prior
knowledge
3. Semantic Feature Analysis - good for a set of words that share
atleast 1 characteristic (a chart).
4. Word Sorts - compare and contrast words
◉ What is Contextual Redefinition? Answer: It is an effective
strategy to teach the meaning of words.
It makes use of the context surrounding the target word.
1. Worksheet - each target word appears 4 times
