RICA SUBTEST 1 2026 ACTUAL EXAM SCRIPT
TESTED QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◉ Phonemic Awareness. Answer: The ability to hear, identify,and
manipulate the individual sounds, phonemes, in oral language.
◉ Phoneme. Answer: speech sound in a language
◉ Grapheme. Answer: A written representation of a sound using one
or more letters.
◉ Vowels. Answer: a, e, i, o, u
◉ Onset and Rime. Answer: -Parts of spoken language that are
smaller than syllables but larger than phonemes
-Onset is the initial consonant(s) sound of a syllable (the b- of bag;
the sw- of swim)
-Rime is the part of the syllable that contains the vowel and all that
follows it (the -ag of bag; the -im of swim)
◉ Word Awareness. Answer: knowing that individual words make
up a sentence
,◉ Syllable Awareness. Answer: Counting, tapping, blending, or
segmenting a word into syllables.
◉ Syllable Blending. Answer: the ability to put together parts of a
word and make them into a new word
◉ Sound Isolation. Answer: Give student a word, which sound
occurs at beginning, middle and end
◉ Sound Identity. Answer: Student needs to know the same sound in
words
◉ Sound Blending. Answer: Teacher says sounds with brief pauses
and student reads and says word
◉ Sound Substitution. Answer: Teacher asks child to substitute one
sound for another to create a new word
◉ Sound Segmentation. Answer: Isolate and identify the sounds in a
spoken word
,◉ Yopp-Singer Test. Answer: tests phonemic segmentation. This is a
test of a student's ability to separately articulate the sounds of a
spoken word in order. Given individually. K-2nd grade.
◉ Concepts About Print (CAP). Answer: Assesses the literacy
knowledge of kindergarten children and early first graders. Skills
assessed: book handling skills, directionality, word-by-word
matching, locating words in print, etc. CAP lets teachers know what
children understand about print.
◉ Meaning. Answer: printed words convey meaning
◉ Representation. Answer: To understand a letter or word
◉ Directionality. Answer: Ability to track print. Left -> or Right Top -
> Bottom
◉ Book Handling Skills. Answer: knowing how to handle a book and
how books "work" (i.e., front and back cover, left to right sweep)
◉ The Shared Book Experience. Answer: Teachers use big books.
includes introduction (prereading) ask predictive questions. read
story with dramatic punch and point to text (tracking of print). Have
discussion, reread on subsequent days with the whole group
, ◉ Letter Recognition. Answer: ability to identify a grapheme by its
name
◉ Letter Naming. Answer: The ability to say the name of a letter
when the teacher points to it.
◉ Letter Formation. Answer: ability to write the lower and
uppercase letters legibly. teaching names of letters, not sounds.
◉ Alphabetic Principle. Answer: an understanding that letters and
letter patterns represent the sounds of spoken words.
◉ Phonics. Answer: the study of the sounds of the letters of the
alphabet
◉ Word Identification. Answer: Ability to read aloud, or decode,
words correctly.
◉ Word Recognition. Answer: the process of identifying a unique
pattern of letters
◉ Automaticity Theory. Answer: 2 main tasks of the reader; 1. To
decode words 2. To understand meaning of the text
TESTED QUESTIONS WITH COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◉ Phonemic Awareness. Answer: The ability to hear, identify,and
manipulate the individual sounds, phonemes, in oral language.
◉ Phoneme. Answer: speech sound in a language
◉ Grapheme. Answer: A written representation of a sound using one
or more letters.
◉ Vowels. Answer: a, e, i, o, u
◉ Onset and Rime. Answer: -Parts of spoken language that are
smaller than syllables but larger than phonemes
-Onset is the initial consonant(s) sound of a syllable (the b- of bag;
the sw- of swim)
-Rime is the part of the syllable that contains the vowel and all that
follows it (the -ag of bag; the -im of swim)
◉ Word Awareness. Answer: knowing that individual words make
up a sentence
,◉ Syllable Awareness. Answer: Counting, tapping, blending, or
segmenting a word into syllables.
◉ Syllable Blending. Answer: the ability to put together parts of a
word and make them into a new word
◉ Sound Isolation. Answer: Give student a word, which sound
occurs at beginning, middle and end
◉ Sound Identity. Answer: Student needs to know the same sound in
words
◉ Sound Blending. Answer: Teacher says sounds with brief pauses
and student reads and says word
◉ Sound Substitution. Answer: Teacher asks child to substitute one
sound for another to create a new word
◉ Sound Segmentation. Answer: Isolate and identify the sounds in a
spoken word
,◉ Yopp-Singer Test. Answer: tests phonemic segmentation. This is a
test of a student's ability to separately articulate the sounds of a
spoken word in order. Given individually. K-2nd grade.
◉ Concepts About Print (CAP). Answer: Assesses the literacy
knowledge of kindergarten children and early first graders. Skills
assessed: book handling skills, directionality, word-by-word
matching, locating words in print, etc. CAP lets teachers know what
children understand about print.
◉ Meaning. Answer: printed words convey meaning
◉ Representation. Answer: To understand a letter or word
◉ Directionality. Answer: Ability to track print. Left -> or Right Top -
> Bottom
◉ Book Handling Skills. Answer: knowing how to handle a book and
how books "work" (i.e., front and back cover, left to right sweep)
◉ The Shared Book Experience. Answer: Teachers use big books.
includes introduction (prereading) ask predictive questions. read
story with dramatic punch and point to text (tracking of print). Have
discussion, reread on subsequent days with the whole group
, ◉ Letter Recognition. Answer: ability to identify a grapheme by its
name
◉ Letter Naming. Answer: The ability to say the name of a letter
when the teacher points to it.
◉ Letter Formation. Answer: ability to write the lower and
uppercase letters legibly. teaching names of letters, not sounds.
◉ Alphabetic Principle. Answer: an understanding that letters and
letter patterns represent the sounds of spoken words.
◉ Phonics. Answer: the study of the sounds of the letters of the
alphabet
◉ Word Identification. Answer: Ability to read aloud, or decode,
words correctly.
◉ Word Recognition. Answer: the process of identifying a unique
pattern of letters
◉ Automaticity Theory. Answer: 2 main tasks of the reader; 1. To
decode words 2. To understand meaning of the text
