ICLA PRACTICE EXAMINATION 2026
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED
A+
◍ Accommodation.
Answer: Changes in the curriculum, instruction, or testing format or
procedures that enable students with disabilities to participate in a way that
allows them to demonstrate their abilities rather than disabilities.
◍ Accountability.
Answer: the idea that schools or teachers are responsible for educational
outcomes and should be evaluated
◍ Authentic assessment.
Answer: a type of assessment that seeks to address widespread concerns
about standardized, norm-referenced testing by representing "literacy
behavior of the community and workplace"; actual learning
◍ Adaptation.
Answer: Changes to curriculum, instruction, or assessments that enable a
student with a disability that significantly impacts performance an
opportunity to participate.
◍ Central tendency.
Answer: a single central value used to summarize a distribution of scores;
mean
◍ Cloze.
Answer: an instrument to measure a person's ability to restore omitted
portions of an oral or written message by reading its remaining context; to
develop listening or reading comprehension
,◍ Alphabetic principle.
Answer: The idea or concept that letters and letter combinations represent
phonemes in an orthography.
◍ Assistive Technology.
Answer: Any item, piece of equipment, or product system whether acquired
commercially, off a shelf, modified, or customized that is used to increase,
maintain, or improve the functional capabilities of a student with a
disability.
◍ Audience.
Answer: The person/people who will read the writing. This may be large or
small, formal or informal.
◍ Frustration Level.
Answer: a readability of material that is too difficult to be read successfully
by a student, <90% accuracy in word identification, <75% comprehension
◍ Authentic writing purposes.
Answer: Students write for real purposes to a specific audience other than
their teacher.
◍ Collaborative writing.
Answer: Working with others on idea generations, comparing and revising
written texts, and a common product achieved and evaluated.
◍ Communicative process.
Answer: A process of interaction between two or more people where ideas
are shared and understood so each person involved can make meaning.
◍ Content-area writing.
Answer: Writing across the various content and subject areas including
mathematics, science, social studies, and the arts.
◍ Idaho Reading Indicator (IRI).
Answer: An Idaho test administered to K-3 grade students that includes
word recognition, phonic analysis and recoding measurements
, ◍ Conventions.
Answer: The mechanics of writing, including spelling, capitalization,
punctuation, grammar/usage, paragraphing, and handwriting.
◍ Cumulative teaching.
Answer: Each step is based on concepts previously learned.
◍ Informal reading inventory (IRI).
Answer: the use of a graded series of passages of increasing difficulty to
determine student's strengths, needs, and strategies in word identification
and comprehension, any casual but sensitive observation of reading
behaviors.
◍ Developmental spelling.
Answer: Children progress through stages of spelling development.
Teachers use this knowledge to teach spelling patterns using a systematic
approach.
◍ Instructional level.
Answer: the readability of material that is challenging, but not frustrating for
the student to read successfully with normal classroom support, >95%
accuracy in word identification >75% comprehension
◍ Miscue Analysis.
Answer: a formal examination of the use of miscues as the basis for
determining the strenghts and needs in the background experiences and
language skills of students as they read
◍ Norm-referenced measurement.
Answer: the assessment of performance in relation to that of the norming
groups used in the standardization of a test or in relation to locally
developed norms
◍ Developmental writing.
Answer: Young children typically progress through a series of stages as they
are learning to write including scribbling/drawing, letter-like forms, letters,
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED
A+
◍ Accommodation.
Answer: Changes in the curriculum, instruction, or testing format or
procedures that enable students with disabilities to participate in a way that
allows them to demonstrate their abilities rather than disabilities.
◍ Accountability.
Answer: the idea that schools or teachers are responsible for educational
outcomes and should be evaluated
◍ Authentic assessment.
Answer: a type of assessment that seeks to address widespread concerns
about standardized, norm-referenced testing by representing "literacy
behavior of the community and workplace"; actual learning
◍ Adaptation.
Answer: Changes to curriculum, instruction, or assessments that enable a
student with a disability that significantly impacts performance an
opportunity to participate.
◍ Central tendency.
Answer: a single central value used to summarize a distribution of scores;
mean
◍ Cloze.
Answer: an instrument to measure a person's ability to restore omitted
portions of an oral or written message by reading its remaining context; to
develop listening or reading comprehension
,◍ Alphabetic principle.
Answer: The idea or concept that letters and letter combinations represent
phonemes in an orthography.
◍ Assistive Technology.
Answer: Any item, piece of equipment, or product system whether acquired
commercially, off a shelf, modified, or customized that is used to increase,
maintain, or improve the functional capabilities of a student with a
disability.
◍ Audience.
Answer: The person/people who will read the writing. This may be large or
small, formal or informal.
◍ Frustration Level.
Answer: a readability of material that is too difficult to be read successfully
by a student, <90% accuracy in word identification, <75% comprehension
◍ Authentic writing purposes.
Answer: Students write for real purposes to a specific audience other than
their teacher.
◍ Collaborative writing.
Answer: Working with others on idea generations, comparing and revising
written texts, and a common product achieved and evaluated.
◍ Communicative process.
Answer: A process of interaction between two or more people where ideas
are shared and understood so each person involved can make meaning.
◍ Content-area writing.
Answer: Writing across the various content and subject areas including
mathematics, science, social studies, and the arts.
◍ Idaho Reading Indicator (IRI).
Answer: An Idaho test administered to K-3 grade students that includes
word recognition, phonic analysis and recoding measurements
, ◍ Conventions.
Answer: The mechanics of writing, including spelling, capitalization,
punctuation, grammar/usage, paragraphing, and handwriting.
◍ Cumulative teaching.
Answer: Each step is based on concepts previously learned.
◍ Informal reading inventory (IRI).
Answer: the use of a graded series of passages of increasing difficulty to
determine student's strengths, needs, and strategies in word identification
and comprehension, any casual but sensitive observation of reading
behaviors.
◍ Developmental spelling.
Answer: Children progress through stages of spelling development.
Teachers use this knowledge to teach spelling patterns using a systematic
approach.
◍ Instructional level.
Answer: the readability of material that is challenging, but not frustrating for
the student to read successfully with normal classroom support, >95%
accuracy in word identification >75% comprehension
◍ Miscue Analysis.
Answer: a formal examination of the use of miscues as the basis for
determining the strenghts and needs in the background experiences and
language skills of students as they read
◍ Norm-referenced measurement.
Answer: the assessment of performance in relation to that of the norming
groups used in the standardization of a test or in relation to locally
developed norms
◍ Developmental writing.
Answer: Young children typically progress through a series of stages as they
are learning to write including scribbling/drawing, letter-like forms, letters,
