Rica Subtest 1
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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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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 - 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? - 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? - 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 -
Answer: Provide reading opportunities for students to practice sounds in context after studying the
sounds in isolation
Prosody has which of these characteristics - Answer: Variation in pitch and intonation
Prosodic oral reading both supports and is supported by reader's - Answer: Active comprehension
processes (ACP)
Which of the following questions focuses most directly on a student ability to read with prosody? -
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? - 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
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