RICA Subtest 1,RICA Subtest 2 & RICA Subtest 3 Exams
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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 - ANSWERgaining 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 - ANSWERTeach 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 - ANSWERSay 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 - ANSWERAsking 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 - ANSWERHave 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 - ANSWERSay 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 -
ANSWERconducting 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? - ANSWERVocabulary 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? - ANSWERUsing 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 - ANSWERProvide reading opportunities for
students to practice sounds in context after studying the sounds in isolation
Prosody has which of these characteristics - ANSWERVariation in pitch and
intonation
Prosodic oral reading both supports and is supported by reader's - ANSWERActive
comprehension processes (ACP)
Which of the following questions focuses most directly on a student ability to read
with prosody? - ANSWERCan 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? - ANSWERthe 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 - ANSWERPromoting 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 - ANSWERAsking 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 spelling development, this type of
lesson is likely to promote students reading development by - ANSWEREnhancing
decoding skills
In an oral fluency assessment in January, a second grade student reads aloud an
unfamiliar passage selected by the teacher, while the teacher records the student's
reading performance on a separate copy of the text, noting the student's reading
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WITH SOLUTIONS) Qs & As| 100% Correct| Grade A
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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 - ANSWERgaining 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 - ANSWERTeach 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 - ANSWERSay 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 - ANSWERAsking 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 - ANSWERHave 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 - ANSWERSay 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 -
ANSWERconducting 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? - ANSWERVocabulary 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? - ANSWERUsing 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 - ANSWERProvide reading opportunities for
students to practice sounds in context after studying the sounds in isolation
Prosody has which of these characteristics - ANSWERVariation in pitch and
intonation
Prosodic oral reading both supports and is supported by reader's - ANSWERActive
comprehension processes (ACP)
Which of the following questions focuses most directly on a student ability to read
with prosody? - ANSWERCan 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? - ANSWERthe 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 - ANSWERPromoting 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 - ANSWERAsking 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 spelling development, this type of
lesson is likely to promote students reading development by - ANSWEREnhancing
decoding skills
In an oral fluency assessment in January, a second grade student reads aloud an
unfamiliar passage selected by the teacher, while the teacher records the student's
reading performance on a separate copy of the text, noting the student's reading
