RICA Subtest 1

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What phonemic awareness task is assessed by asking a student to identify the number of sounds in the word 'coat'?

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Recognizing the amount of phonemes contained in a word.

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Which spelling development stage shows understanding of letter-sound correspondence? Options: precommunicative, semiphonetic, phonetic, transitional

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semiphonetic

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Instructional strategy to develop whole-word reading and automatic word recognition skills for first graders who can sound out and blend words with short-vowel phonics pattern.

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Provide modeling and guided student practice sounding out simple, regular words subvocally and then reading them aloud normally.

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Which method would most effectively help second-grade students decode words ending in -ing?

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explicitly teaching the students to read the unit -ing in isolation before teaching them to decode familiar words that end in the inflection

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Using silent reading to promote fluency should be limited to which students?

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Students who have already acquired automaticity in their reading.

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What is most likely causing a sixth-grade student's difficulty in reading a grade-level expository passage fluently when they have good comprehension of narrative texts?

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The student's lack of exposure with this type of academic-language structure presented in the text negatively affects his reading comprehension.

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Strategy to improve reading rate and automaticity for two students assessed at the same level.

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Create a paired reading activity, in which the students read side by side and share text aloud in unison, gradually increasing their pace as they proceed through the text.

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A first grade student pronounces 'tentacles' as 'ten-tac-oles' during a reading assessment. What reading pronunciation error does this show?

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This child demonstrates an understanding of pronunciation through syllabication and phonics awareness correctly but does not recognize the word.

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What instructional strategy is most effective for helping fifth-grade students improve spelling of scientific terms like condensation, dissolve, insulator, temperature, precipitation, and sedimentary?

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Teaching a lesson on etymology with these terms, so the students have an understanding where their root spelling derives from.

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How does explaining the origin of the word 'schist' help students?

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Providing historical context to improve their ability to decode multisyllabic words.