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A study guide for #teaching students who want to get ready for the #RICA exam!
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A student struggles with content-specific vocabulary. What could the teacher do for support?
Send the student home with a packet of homework.
Skip the unit for the entire class.
Have the student work on the unit with no struggles
Use sheltered instruction to pre-teach vocabulary words
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The first stage of the writing process, in which writers gather and organize ideas for writing
pre-reading
proof reading
pre-writing
writing
3
The 4th stage of the writing process involves correcting spelling and grammatical errors.
Editing
Post writing
Outlining
Drafting
4
What is a word wall?
A wall made out of words
A teaching method using bricks to teach reading
An alphabetized chart listing words students will not learn
An alphabetized chart listing words students are learning
5
The words fan, am, and left all have closed syllables. What is a closed syllable?
A syllable that ends with a vowel
A syllable that starts with a consonant
Any syllable
A syllable that ends with a consonant
6
A voiced speech sound made without friction or stoppage of the airflow is called?
A vowel
A word
Writing
A consonant
7
A student struggles to explain what they read. What strategy could you use?
Rereading -after a child reads a story someone else reads it
Redoing - after a child reads a story they read it again
Retelling -after a child reads a story they retell the story
Repeating -after a child reads a story the teacher repeats
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What does affix mean?
A word all by itself
A syllable added to the end of a word only
A syllable added to the beginning of a word only
A syllable added to the end or beginning of a word
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What is a child's word bank?
A personal collection of words he knows in isolation.
A personal collection of words he knows in group settings.
A personal collection of words he knows when asked.
A personal collection of words he is learning in isolation.
10
Reading a writing to identify and correct spelling and other mechanical errors
proofreading
reading
post-reading
pre-reading
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A strategy in which students predict what will happen in a story and read to verify is called?
Phonology
Phonics
Prediction
Predilection
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What is instructional reading level?
The level of reading material that cannot be read
The level of reading material that can be read independently
The level of reading material that can be read with support.
The level of reading material used in social science
13
The the ability to read and write is called....
reading
education
teaching
literacy
14
Phonics is
a method of teaching spelling
a method of teaching writing
the predictable relationships between phonemes and graphemes
an outdated form of teaching reading
15
A basic speech sound in which the breath is at least partly obstructed is called what?
A hard sound
A vowel
A syllable
A consonant
16
Each of two or more words having the same spelling but different meanings and origins is what?
synonym
heteronym
homonym
antonym
17
In teaching reading, what is scaffolding?
The support a teacher provides to students as they read
The support students provide to each other during reading
The support a teacher provides to students as they play
The support students provide to a teacher during reading
18
Context clues are what?
A hint that the police use to solve a crime
Something you learn from playing Clue
A hint that an author gives to help define a difficult word
A hint that an author doesn't give you
19
What is a suffix?
A syllable added to the start or end of a word
A syllable added to the start of a word to change meaning
A syllable added to the end of a word to change meaning
A word
20
Incorporating writing skills into every subject matter is an example of what?
Cross cut
Cross stitch
Circular
Cross-circular
21
A writing workshop is which of the following?
An approach where teachers use the writing process to teach
An approach where students use writing process to read
An approach where students use writing process to write
An approach where students teach other students to write.
22
What are three ways you can teach concepts about print to a 1st grade student?
Reading quietly, ignoring print, speaking a lot
Reading aloud,shared book experience, print rich environment
Reading aloud, shared book experience
Reading aloud only
23
A dipthong is a sound....
produced when the tongue glides from one sound to another
produced once in a while accidentally
never produced
produced when the tongue does not move
24
What is a comparison expressed using like or as?
onomatopoeia
metaphor
simile
comparison
25
What are the 5 steps of the writing process in order.
Prewriting, drafting, publishing, revising and editing.
Prewriting, revising, drafting, publishing, and editing.
Prewriting, drafting, revising, editing, and publishing
Writing, drafting, editing, revising and publishing.
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A comparison expressed directly, without using like or as, is what?
A vowel
A simile
A metaphor
onomatopoeia
27
What is listening capacity level?
A passage that can not be comprehended at all
A capacity used to test one's hearing level
Highest level of a passage that is comprehended when read
Lowest level of a passage that is comprehended when read
28
A narrative is a.....
Poem
Book
Song
Story
29
The purpose of an entry-level assessment is to determine:
short term planning for cross-circular instruction
giving grades to students
ignoring the CA state standards
determine the selection of appropriate instructional tools
30
What are leveling books?
Books that level furniture
A method of estimating the difficulty level of a text
A method of reading books aloud
A method of reading books with help
31
What term describes enlarged versions of picture books used in primary grades?
Small books
Books
Picture books
Big books
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What are the three key indicators of fluency that should be seen in 2nd grade students?
Accuracy, readability, prosody
Availability, rate, prosody
Accuracy, rate, prosody
Accuracy, rate, parody
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The ability to manipulate the sounds in words orally is....
personification
phonemic awareness
poetry
phoneme
34
A writing activity in which students and the teacher write a text together is called what?
Interactive writing
Dependent writing
Independent writing
Active writing
35
What are three comprehension skills?
phonetic, inferential, and evaluative
literal, inferential, and teaching
literal, inferential, and evaluative
literal, bilateral, and evaluative
36
What is the definition of a consonant diagraph?
Two letters that come together to make one sound.
Two vowels that come together to make one sound
Two letters that are not used together to make a sound
Two consonants that come together to make one sound
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What is reading that a student needs to complete and understand in a particular subject area?
Reading is fundamental
Complex reading
Reading in general
Content area reading
38
A small-group or whole-class discussion about literature is called what?
A Grand Canyon
A grand conversation
A grand communication
A grand ole time
39
What are the four stages of spelling?
pre-phonetic, onomatopoeia, transitional and conventional
pre-phonetic, phonetic, transitional and unconventional
teaching, phonetic, transitional and conventional
pre-phonetic, phonetic, transitional and conventional
40
Define high frequency words
A common word usually a word among the 100 most common words
A word that is not common
A word that teachers use on tests often
A word that is frequently pronounced wrong
41
Long vowels are what type of vowels?
The vowel sounds that are also consonants
The vowel sounds that are also names of the alphabet letters
None of the above
The opposite of consonants.
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What does the Lexile scale measure?
It measures the skill of a teacher
It measures a readers speed
It measures a text's complexity and a reader's skill level
It measures a text's skill level in being written
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What are minimal pairs?
A pair of words that are synonyms.
A pair of words that vary wildly.
A pair of words that vary by more than one phoneme.
A pair of words that vary by only one phoneme
44
A stage of reading where readers reread the text and then learn strategies and skills
Exponential
Exploring
Expository
Excused
45
How can you teach letter recognition to a kindergarten student who has no preschool background?
Sing songs and play with puppets
have them stare at the alphabet on the board
Recommend IEP for a student who does not understand letters
singing the alphabet, ABC books, practice writing letters
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What is independent reading level?
The level of reading material taught to a student
The level of reading material that can be read independently
The level of reading material that can be read with help
The level of reading material that is skipped
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Which of the following are continuous consonant sounds?
a, e, i, o, u
f, l, m, n, r, s, v, z
b, c, d, g, j, k, p, qu, t
y
48
Name 3 independent reading strategies assessments to use with struggling 3rd grade students.
interest ignorance, reading logs, observation
interest inventory, reading logs, observation
interest inventory, reading minutes, observation
There are no strategies to use with a 3rd grade student
49
When the teacher reads a sentence and a group of students reread what was read, this is called
re-reading
bad reading
echolocation
echo reading
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How do you help a student who has difficulty with d and b?
Have student write d and b 100 times each
Help student on directionality of each letter with tracing
Send student to the learning center for help
Give student work that does not involve d and b
51
What is shared reading?
The teacher reads a book alone
The teacher reads a book with a group of children who follow
Students read a book to the teacher
Students read a book to other students
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A fourth grade teacher has struggling readers. To develop their comprehension, she should:
provide independent reading time to these students
ignore those readers and work with the higher readers
provide visual explanations of the comprehension strategies
assign extra homework for these students
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What is the pre-communicative phase?
Using letters from alphabet but no knowledge of letter-sound
Making sounds by looking at words
Communicating with grunts and groans.
Using letters from alphabet with full understanding
54
Two or more adjacent vowels in a syllable that represent a single sound is called?
A vowel digraph
A vowel
A consonant digraph
A repeating digraph
55
Fluency is defined as....
reading with help
A method of testing reading
reading for speed
reading smoothly, quickly and with expression
56
What are two standard assessment auality indicators?
Unreliability, invalidity
Unreliability, validity
Reliability, invalidity
Reliability, validity
57
What is imagery?
The use of figurative language to create an impression
The use of figurative language in teaching
The use of figurative language to create a false story
The use of figurative language when completing word problems
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What is structural analysis?
A word is divided into syllables
A word is divided into letter parts
A word is divided into multi-letter parts
You analyze the structure of a composition
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What is syllabication?
Clapping while speaking to determine syllables
Using the word syllabus repeatedly while teaching
Syllabication is not a word
Forming or dividing words into syllables
60
Which of the following are stop consonant sounds?
y
a, e, i, o, u
f, l, m, n, r, s, v, z
b, c, d, g, j, k, p, qu, t
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The second stage of the writing process is
pre-writing
editing
drafting
finished writing
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What is a student's background knowledge?
A student's knowledge about the past
A student's knowledge about the future
A student's knowledge about the present
A student's knowledge overall
63
What does the Yopp-Singer test determine?
A reader's ability to break a word apart into sounds
A reader's ability to read
A reader's ability to break a word apart into letters
A reader's ability to write.
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To pronounce a word slowly, saying each sound distinctly is called what?
Sectional
Segment
Segmental
Section
65
What strategy can you use to help a struggling reader with a learning disability in 6th grade?
Cross circular studies
Focus on blending and segmenting, reteach lacking skills
Phenomic awareness practice
Decrease the focus on reading and do more math
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What is the phonological and pragmatic information that students rely on as they read.
Cueing systems
Cue balls
Teaching systems
Reading systems
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The ability to apply knowledge of letter-sounds to correctly pronounce written words is....
Coding
Decoding
Decomposition
Recoding
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Literal, inferential and evaluative are three levels of....
Comprehension
Conductivity
Clusters
Compound
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What is the Goldilocks principle in reading?
Reading Goldilocks over and over.
A strategy to find a big that is just right
A strategy to find a big that is too small
A strategy to find a big that is too big
70
Students working in small groups to read a text selected and introduced by the teacher is what?
A reading
A guided reading
An independent reading
Math
71
What is a reading workshop?
An approach in which students read texts independently
An approach in which students write texts for others to read
An approach in which the teacher reads texts to the students
An approach in which students read in groups quietly
72
What is a readability formula?
A method of estimating the reading level of a student
A method of estimating the difficulty level of a text
A method of estimating the writing level of a student
A method of estimating the difficulty of teaching a lesson
73
What are some strategies the teacher can use to support a student's challenge with CVC words?
Use letter tiles to relearn the alphabet
Use letter tiles & blend the word by pointing to each letter
Stop testing the CVC words with this student.
Keep using the same methods that have been used so far
74
When you read a textbook leveled according to grade, it is called?
Basic reading
Beginning reading
Basal reading
Reading
75
What is a prefix?
A syllable that stands alone
A syllable added to the start of a word to change meaning
A syllable added to the beginning and end of a word
A syllable added to the end of a word to change meaning
76
What is a literature circle?
An approach in which students write a story in a group
An approach where students sit in circles in class
An approach in which students meet in groups to read a book
An approach in which students meet in groups to read a book
77
Predicting, monitoring, visualizing, and summarizing are all types of what?
strategies
reading
teaching
mathematics
78
What is an antonym?
The same word twice
A word with the same meaning
A word that has no meaning
A word with the opposite meaning
79
A student struggles to answer inferential questions. What strategies would support this student
Ignore the struggles
Collect evidence of students progress quarterly
Explicitly teach comprehension strategies
Conference with the student on a yearly basis
80
Expository text is considered ......
None of the above
Nonfiction
Fiction-like
Fiction
81
Why is structural analysis used?
It is used for reading simple words in lower grades.
It is used for reading complex words in upper grades.
It is used for writing
It is used for reading all words in all grades.
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What is the term for reading for information?
Homework
Efferent reading
Fun
Effervescent reading
83
What is a word family?
A group of words that start with the same letter
A group of words that have nothing in common
A group of words that are synonyms
A group of words that rhyme
84
A student reads at a very slow rate but with strong comprehension. What strategy could be used?
choral reading in a small group until student matches pace
reading in front of the whole class
reading at home with his parents.
reading alone in the corner with no support
85
How do you teach phonological awareness to a lower grade student?
Word and syllable awareness,word blending,syllable blending
Word blending and syllable blending only
There is no way to teach phonological awareness
Word awareness only
86
A monitoring assessment that can be used to assess progress in reading comprehension is:
a parent teacher conference
a completed learning log
an interest inventory
a list of vocabulary words learned so far
87
What is literal comprehension?
The lack of understanding of what is stated in a text
The understanding of what is explicitly stated in a text
The understanding of what is implicitly stated in a text
The complete understanding of a text
88
What is the term used for reading for pleasure?
Homework
Aesthetic reading
Reading for school
Fun
89
The tone of a story or poem is called what?
Moody
A short story
Allusion
Mood
90
How do you pronounce dipthong?
dipˌTHäNG
dipthong
d THäNG
dipˌthank
91
What is hyperbole?
A fast moving bowl
A reading style
A stylistic device involving rhymes
A stylistic device involving obvious exaggerations
92
A spiderlike diagram, called a map or web, used to collect and organize ideas after reading is
A spider
A cloud
Not used in teaching
A cluster
93
What is the structural system of language or grammar?
syntax
speech
disorder
system
94
What three strategies can you use to teach phenomic awareness to a lower grade student?
Sound disisolation, sound desegmentation, talking
sound deletion, sound segmentation
Sound isolation, sound identity, sound segmentation
Sound repeating, sound loudness, sound methods
95
A reading process in which readers activate background knowledge and make plans for reading
proof reading
reading
pre-reading
pre-writing
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What are the 3 of the six categories of cognitive objections organized by complexity?
Knowledge, Comprehension, Application.
Knowledge, Comprehension, Attitude
Knowledge, Compression, Application.
Kinship, Comprehension, Application.
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Orthography is what system?
Reading
Writing
Math
Spelling
98
There is a student with an IEP in a 2nd grade class. How should a teacher do entry-level plans
Plan as if the student does not have an IEP
Plan as if every student on an IEP has the same requirements
Refer to the IEP to determine any specific accomodations
Refer to the IEP and then ignore it.
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A level of reading material that is too difficult for a student to read successfully.
Frustration level
Success level
Fluency level
Freedom level
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What are synonyms?
Words that mean nearly the opposite
Two words that sound alike
Two words with nothing in common
Words that mean nearly the same thing
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What alternative assessments can be used in an IEP?
More time,smaller units,practice assessment,simpler version
More time,smaller units,less practice, harder version
Less time,smaller units,less practice,simpler version
More time,bigger units,practice assessment,harder version
