RICA Subtest 1

A third-grade teacher considers ways to help a new student who is a beginning English learner develop skills and phonemic awareness and knowledge of English sounds. Which of the steps will be most important for the teacher to take first?

• Set of simple rhyming poems

• Sounds and primary in students language

• Simple English words with different vowel sounds

• Assessments and plans

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 allowed a set of words that follow the same pattern and the student wrote down the word. This activity demonstrates a teacher’s awareness and the importance of…

• Invented spelling to reinforce phonics skills

• Understand morphology of words relate to spelling patterns

• Writing strategies to give students opportunities apply font knowledge to new words

• Develop students recognition of of common syllanle patterns

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.

• Showing individual students a picture card and asking them to identify another word that begins with the same sound

• Having individual students segment the sounds of single syllable words from a word list

• Asking individual students to say the sound a letter makes as the teacher points to individual letters in randomly organized list of letters

• Recite the alphabet while following the letters on an alphabetical chart with their finger

A Kindergarten teacher bases a number of reading related activities on the sound of the day. For example, she called each student by their new names. This activity is most likely to promote the reading development of

• Recognition of word boundaries

• Onset and rime

• Sound relates to print

• Development of basic syllabication skills

A Kindergarten teacher wants to assess a student’s ability to focus attention on the sounds in words. Which of the following assessment strategies would be most appropriate and effective for the student?

• Give several examples of rhyming words and then ask the student to say whatever pairs of spoken words rhyme

• Provide a list of words that begin with the letter b and d

• Circle the picture on a worksheet that corresponds to each word aloud by the teacher

• Model how to find hidden words

A first-grade teacher notices that a student who is a phonetic speller has begun placing a silent -e at the end of most words. This practice most likely reflects…

• Difficulty in discriminating between vowels and consonants

• Normal tendency of students in the stage of spelling development

• Difficulty distinguishing sounds within words

• The normal tendency of students in this stage of spelling development to overgeneralize phonics rules

A Kindergartener shows her teacher a picture she has drawn of her kitten and says, “See it’s tigger.” Based on this work sample the student appears to have developed some understanding of the concept that…

• Letter names differ from letter sounds

• Difference between drawing and writing

• Print text is directional

• Every English word must contain a vowel

A 5-year-old student writes: “IluVmibabesistr” What does the student not understand about writing?

• Words need to be written separately

• Vowels are part of words

• Writing consists of discrete words

• Print carries meaning

To help assess students’ spelling skills, a second-grade teacher dictating a set of words shown below is one of the students’ performance on the assessment. The assessment suggests that the student is experiencing difficulty in which one of the following areas.

Whale / wale

Brush / bruch

Chase / shase

Gather / gater

Zebra / zebra

After / after

Forget / forget

Which area is the student showing difficulty?

• Consonant blends

• Vowel digraphs

• Controlled vowels

• Consonant digraphs

A 5^th grade teacher is studying the history of the US during the colonial period. Cent, century, centennial.

• Etymology (origin of the word) / having them categorize and study new words by common features example with a common suffix such taxation revolution

• Showing them copies of original documents from the colonial period

• Understand that their research papers and other writing assignments for this unit will be graded on spelling

• Prepare a list of key words related to the unit