Rica Subtest 1 Exam Questions And Correct Detailed Answers.

A first grade teacher considers ways to help a new student who is beginning English learner development skills and phonemic awareness and knowledge of English sounds. Which of the following steps will be most important for the teacher to take first - correct answer gaining some basic familiarity with the sound system of the student's primary language A first grade teacher leads a small group of beginning readers in a lesson focused on decoding simple words composed of letters that students have learned to sound out in isolation. The teacher begins by writing word "sat" on the board. In keeping the research-based practices, the most appropriate step for the teacher to take next in this lesson would be to - correct answer Teach the student to blend the sounds in the word "sat" slowly and continuously without pausing Which of the following strategies would best help a kindergarten teacher access a students ability to blend phonemes - correct answer Say the sounds /d/, /o/ and /g/ separately, then ask the child to say them as one word Which of the following informal assessments would be most appropriate to use to access on individual student's phonemic awareness - correct answer Asking the student to identify the sound at the beginning, medial, or final of a spoken word (e;g "What sound do you hear at the end of step?" The cat question if you get it the answer is - correct answer Have the students segment the sounds in the word /c/ /a/ /t/ in order or have the student break apart the word "cat" What strategy is best used to teach phonemic awareness - correct answer Say the individual sounds of a word A student who joins a first grade classroom in late October performs poorly on a phonemic-awareness activity. To address this students reading needs, which of the following steps would be most important for the teacher to take first - correct answer conducting formal phonemic awareness assessments with the student Which of the following statements best explains why students continue to need systematic, explicit instruction to support and promote fluency even after they have achieved automaticity? - correct answer Vocabulary and academic language continue to be significant factors that disrupt student's fluency A third grade teacher develops a word list from a small group of students that includes words representing complex phonics patterns. After reviewing the list with the students the teacher did a dictation activity with a different set of words that follow the same pattern and the student wrote down the word. This activity demonstrates the teachers awareness of the importance of? - correct answer Using writing activities to give students opportunities to apply phonics knowledge to new words A first grade provides students with explicit, systematic phonics instruction to promote their reading development when designing activities to teach letter sound correspondences, the teacher should - correct answer Provide reading opportunities for students to practice sounds in context after studying the sounds in isolation Prosody has which of these characteristics - correct answer Variation in pitch and intonation Prosodic oral reading both supports and is supported by reader's - correct answer Active comprehension processes (ACP) Which of the following questions focuses most directly on a student ability to read with prosody? - correct answer Can the student accurately read aloud a grade-appropriate passage in a manner that sounds like natural speech? Which of the following factors will most disrupt a second grade students fluency with the respect to accuracy? - correct answer the students does not regularly use mega cognitive strategies to monitor comprehension In a curriculum based oral reading fluency assessment conducted in September a second grade student has an accuracy rate of 98% reading rate of 39 words per minute, or just words below 50% of our benchmark 51 words per minute. These results, such as the teacher should plan instruction for the students that focuses on which of following dimensions of reading fluency - correct answer Promoting the student's automatic word recognition (automaticity) Which of following informal assessments would be most appropriate and effective to administer at the beginning of the school year to assess first grade students understanding of letter-sound correspondence - correct answer Asking individual students to say the sound a letter makes as the teacher points to individual letters in randomly organized letters in randomly organized list of letters A teacher is helping students learn orthographic generalization for adding suffixes to words ending in "y". In addition promoting their spellin