RICA Subtest 1 Questions with Complete Solutions A Grade

RICA Subtest 1 Questions with Complete Solutions A Grade Phonological Awareness - Answer-the ability to reflect on and manipulate the sound structure of spoken language 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.