RICA Subtest 1 Quiz
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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 the 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 kinder teacher assess a student's ability to blend
phonemes? - Answer: Say the sounds /s/,/e/. and /t/ separately, then ask the child to say them as one
word.
Which of the following informal assessments would be most appropriate to use to assess an 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?"
OR Have the student segment the sounds in the word /c/ /a/ /t/ in order
What strategy is best used to teach phonemic awareness? //OR// When a student is having a difficult
time identifying the sounds at the beginning, middle, or end of a word, a teacher sound build the
students' sound isolation skills. Which is the ability to identify the beginning, middle or end sounds in a
word? - Answer: Say the individual sounds of a word
OR Say the pronunciation of (cat)
, A student who joins a first-grade classroom in late October preforms poorly on a phonemic-awareness
activity. To address this student's 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 if the following statements best explains why students continue to need systemic, 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 students' 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 students, the teacher did a dictation
activity with a different set of words that follow the same patten and the student wrote down the word.
This activity demonstrates the teacher's awareness of the importance of? - Answer: Using writing
activities to give students opportunities to apply phonics knowledge to new words
Prosody has which of these characteristics? - Answer: Variation in pitch and intonation
Prosodic reading both supports and is supported by reader's - Answer: Active comprehension processes
Which of the following questions focuses most directly on a students' ability to read with prosody? -
Answer: Can the student accurately read aloud a grade-level appropriate passage in a manner that
sounds like natural speech?
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
student that focuses on which of the following dimensions of reading fluency. - Answer: Promoting the
students automatic word recognition (automaticity)
Which of the 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 - Answer: Asking individual students to say the sound a letter makes as the teacher
points to individual letters in randomly organized list of letters
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