RICA Subtest 1 Practice
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The primary formats for phonemic awareness are:
A. oral blending and segmentation.
B. identifying spelling patterns and vowels.
C. sequencing and classifying.
D. orthography and word analysis. - Answer: A. oral blending and segmentation.
A kindergarten teacher implements the following lesson:
Teacher: What are the sounds in the word "sit"?Student: /s/ /i/ /t/Teacher: Good. The new word is "pit".
What sound changed "sit" to "pit"?Student: /p/
The phonemic awareness lesson above is an example of:
A. substituting a medial vowel.
B. substituting an initial consonant sound.
C. syllable blending.
D. phoneme counting. - Answer: B. substituting an initial consonant sound.
As an additional support to her five students struggling with the phonemic awareness lesson during
whole group instruction, a kindergarten teacher uses Elkonin boxes with colored tiles. As the teacher
says a word, the student moves a tile in a box for each sound they hear in the target word. The teacher
calls on each student to tell her the sounds they hear in the word while touching the colored tiles. This
strategy should enhance understanding of identifying sounds because:
, A. it uses an auditory technique that allows the student to hear the sounds louder during instruction.
B. it uses a pre-teaching technique that prepares the student to identify sounds orally.
C. it enhances the lesson by making it more fun for students, using colors and grids.
D. it uses a kinesthetic technique that allows the student to use a hands-on approach for identifying
sounds in a word. - Answer: D. it uses a kinesthetic technique that allows the student to use a hands-on
approach for identifying sounds in a word.
An example of a phonemic awareness assessment is:
A. medial phoneme substitution.
B. word sort.
C. matching prefixes and their meanings.
D. matching uppercase and lowercase letters, using word cards. - Answer: A. medial phoneme
substitution.
During the first week of school, a kindergarten teacher assesses each student by asking a series of
questions after handing them a book:
Where is the front cover of the book?
Use your finger to show me where I will begin reading on this page.
Use your finger to show me the direction I need to read.
Point to the title of the book.
Show me how to turn the page.
Where is the beginning of the story?
Where is the end of the story?
The teacher implemented this assessment to determine the students' skills in the area of:
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