RICA Subtest 1 Questions And Answers 100%
Correct 2025-2026
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. gets the meaning of what's being read but makes the mistake
due to lack of phonics skills. Example: "reading dad for father"
Syntatic error
Error involves 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
Independent Reading Level
highest passage that student reads aloud 90% or more of the words correctly and
answers at 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.
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