RICA Actual Test 2024 Questions
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Standardized assessments for students with special needs are used to:
A. Compare their reading levels with students at grade level.
B. Motivate students to try harder.
C. Support the teacher in designing activities with scaffolds aligned to the state standards.
D. Support the teacher in justifying why students are unable to meet the criteria of the state
standards. - ✔C. Support the teacher in designing activities with scaffolds aligned to the
state standards.
Standardized assessments for reading are valid if they are used to measure:
A. Exposure to content
B. Speed of completing the test
C. English language Arts & Literacy standards
D. I.Q - ✔C. English language Arts & Literacy standards
After implementing a CLOZE assessment, a sixth grade teacher has determined that five of her
students tested at a frustration level. What is an example of an effective intervention lesson?
A. Phonics and fluency instruction
B. Fluency and comprehension instruction
C. Vocabulary and comprehension instruction
D. Phonics and vocabulary instruction - ✔A. Phonics and fluency instruction
,The primary purpose for a teacher to communicate assessment results for reading progress for
her students to district personnel is:
A. To justify the scores from a standardized assessment aligned to state standards.
B. To justify an observation lesson that was implemented during a school visit
C. To justify the use of materials outside of the state-adopted curriculum
D. To justify the method of discipline being used in the classroom - ✔A. To justify the
scores from a standardized assessment aligned to state standards
A kindergarten teacher implemented a rhyming assessment that was structured as:
Teacher: I am going to say three words; tell me the ones that end the same:
pat sat hogship root dip frog road toad This
will assess the students' knowledge of: A.
Phonics
B. Concepts about print
C. Phonological awareness
D. The alphabetic principle - ✔C. Phonological awareness
In order to support improvement in phonological awareness, a kindergarten teacher
implements the following lesson:
Teacher: I am going to break apart a word and you are going to blend it back together. The
word is /h/ /at/
Student: hat
The phonological awareness lesson above is an example of:
,A. Onset-rime
B. Rhyming
C. Syllable blending
D. Phoneme counting - ✔A. Onset-rime
After a mid-year kindergarten assessment, the teacher has identified four students that are
able to identify letters, but are scoring below benchmark in all areas of phonemic awareness.
The teacher should focus intensive instruction on the following lessons:
A. Oral blending and segmenting
B. Rhyming and singing
C. Letter recognition and letter formation
D. Visual aids for target words - ✔A. Oral blending and segmenting
The Yopp-Singer assessment determines students' ability in the area of: A.
Rhyming
B. Phoneme segmentation
C. Letter recognition
D. letter formation - ✔B. Phoneme segmentation
In a kindergarten class, the teacher is implementing activities that are exposing her students to the
ability to track print in connected texts. The most effective method for teaching the skill is:
, A. During a read aloud, have students follow along in their own books.
B. The teacher dictates the spelling of words from a story and analyzes the direction that students
write it on paper.
C. Read aloud to students with a big book and point to words while reading.
D. Meet with students one on one and read loud while they move their fingers across the pages.
- ✔C. Read aloud to students with a big book and point to words while reading.
A kindergarten teacher conducts small group instruction with six students that is designed
using letter cards. The lesson is introduced as:
Teacher: In my hand I have a deck of letter cards for the alphabet that have 2 letters, plus a line
that indicates that a letter is missing. As I flip the cards in the deck I want you to name the
missing letters on each card.
The intervention lesson will support students becoming more proficient in the area of:
A. Letter naming
B. Letter formation
C. Phonemic awareness
D. Letter and sound correspondence - ✔A. Letter naming
Effective instruction for the development of the alphabetic principle will require all of the
following activities except:
A. Onset-rime
B. Letter sequencing
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