RICA subtest 1 (2023)/62 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
VERIFIED
Informal Reading Inventory (IRI) - is a collection of assessments administered individually to students.
Determines reading level.
Types of IRI - Word Recognition Lists
Graded Reading Passages
Reading Interest Survey
Assessments measuring concepts about print
Phonemic Awareness
Assessments on Reading Fluency
Structural Analysis
Vocabulary Assessment
word recognition list - 10 words for each list; determines reading level, info. on sight vocabulary, and
info. about students' ability to use phonics to decode words.
Graded Reading Passages - most important part of IRI. K-8th grade. students read aloud and measure
miscue analysis, graphophonemic errors, semantic errors, syntactic errors.
Miscue Analysis - A strategy for categorizing and analyzing a student's oral reading errors.
Graphophonemic Error - an error related to the sound-symbol relationships for English. e.g. "reading
feather for father"
Tells teacher that child is relying too much on phonics to read words or reading a passage too difficult
for them.
Semantic errors - meaning-related error. understands what is being read, but needs phonics skills to not
make errors. "reading dad for father"
, syntatic error - error is made in the same part of speech as the correct word. Example: reading into for
through. If student makes an error, that means student needs to pay more attention to phonics.
How to define frustration, instructional, and independent reading levels - after reading aloud, he or she
is then asked to answer comprehenson questions for the passage. Teacher reads the questions and child
responds orally.
Retelling - the form of measuring comprehension with having a child list characters, places, and events
in the passage in their own words.
Independent reading level - the highest grade-level passage for which the student reads aloud 95% or
more of words correctly and answers 90% or more of the comprehension questions correctly
Instructural Reading Level - highest passage that student reads aloud 90% or more of the words
correctly and answersat least 60% of the comprehension questions correctly.
Frustration Reading Level - Passages cannot be read and understood by the child.; child cannot read at
least 90% of the words or correctly answer at least 60% of the comprehension questions.
Phonological Awareness - Knowledge that oral English is composed of smaller units
A child who has phonological awareness can identify and manipulate sounds in many different levels of
language - 1. Individual sounds (phonemic awareness)
2. Sounds in larger units of language, such as words and syllables.
Phonemic Awareness - the ability to distinguish the separate phonemes (or sounds) in a spoken word.
Phonics - knowledge of letter-sound correspondances: phonics
alphabetic principle - states that speech sounds are represented by letters; symbols=sounds
Phoneme - speech sound
VERIFIED
Informal Reading Inventory (IRI) - is a collection of assessments administered individually to students.
Determines reading level.
Types of IRI - Word Recognition Lists
Graded Reading Passages
Reading Interest Survey
Assessments measuring concepts about print
Phonemic Awareness
Assessments on Reading Fluency
Structural Analysis
Vocabulary Assessment
word recognition list - 10 words for each list; determines reading level, info. on sight vocabulary, and
info. about students' ability to use phonics to decode words.
Graded Reading Passages - most important part of IRI. K-8th grade. students read aloud and measure
miscue analysis, graphophonemic errors, semantic errors, syntactic errors.
Miscue Analysis - A strategy for categorizing and analyzing a student's oral reading errors.
Graphophonemic Error - an error related to the sound-symbol relationships for English. e.g. "reading
feather for father"
Tells teacher that child is relying too much on phonics to read words or reading a passage too difficult
for them.
Semantic errors - meaning-related error. understands what is being read, but needs phonics skills to not
make errors. "reading dad for father"
, syntatic error - error is made in the same part of speech as the correct word. Example: reading into for
through. If student makes an error, that means student needs to pay more attention to phonics.
How to define frustration, instructional, and independent reading levels - after reading aloud, he or she
is then asked to answer comprehenson questions for the passage. Teacher reads the questions and child
responds orally.
Retelling - the form of measuring comprehension with having a child list characters, places, and events
in the passage in their own words.
Independent reading level - the highest grade-level passage for which the student reads aloud 95% or
more of words correctly and answers 90% or more of the comprehension questions correctly
Instructural Reading Level - highest passage that student reads aloud 90% or more of the words
correctly and answersat least 60% of the comprehension questions correctly.
Frustration Reading Level - Passages cannot be read and understood by the child.; child cannot read at
least 90% of the words or correctly answer at least 60% of the comprehension questions.
Phonological Awareness - Knowledge that oral English is composed of smaller units
A child who has phonological awareness can identify and manipulate sounds in many different levels of
language - 1. Individual sounds (phonemic awareness)
2. Sounds in larger units of language, such as words and syllables.
Phonemic Awareness - the ability to distinguish the separate phonemes (or sounds) in a spoken word.
Phonics - knowledge of letter-sound correspondances: phonics
alphabetic principle - states that speech sounds are represented by letters; symbols=sounds
Phoneme - speech sound
