RICA Exam Questions with Complete Solutions 20223/2024 A 6th grader who is advanced in most areas of reading has difficulty completing assigned reading selections. He appears motivated when he begins reading, but he has difficulty keeping his attention on the task at hand. Which of the following would be his teacher's best INITIAL strategy for addressing this difficulty? - Correct Answer breaking down the student's reading assignments into small steps and helping him learn to monitor his own attention and progress. Competency 1 When creating lesson plans to promote specific reading skills, a teacher should make sure that: - Correct Answer the targeted reading skills relate to an appropriate instructional progression ans reflect students' needs. Competency 1 An early elementary teacher could most effectively support at-home reading by: - Correct Answer recommending books that parents/guardians would likely enjoy reading with their children. (Competency 1) A 6th grade teacher wants to ensure that the classroom reading environment supports content-area learning for the English Learners in the class. Which of the following strategies is likely to be most effective in addressing this objective? - Correct Answer making avalible in the classroom content-area texts at various levels that supplement and reinforce the information presented in students' textbooks Competency 1 Of the following questions, which would be most important for a teacher to consider when interpreting the results of a reading assessment for a particular student? - Correct Answer How do these findings relate to the student's performance on other recently administered reading assessments? (Competency 2) A 4th grade class includes 2 students with Individualized Education Programs (IEPs).When planning classroom entry-level and progress-monitoring assessments for theses students, the teacher should: - Correct Answer consult each students' IEP to determine any specific testing accommodations required for that students. (Competency 2) A middle school teacher is preparing the class to take the 6th grade California Standards Test (CST) in English-language arts. The teacher believes that a student in the class with a Section 504 Plan would perform significantly better on the assessment if she were allowed to have frequent supervised breaks within sections of the test.Which of the following guidelines would be most important for the teacher to follow to ensure that arrangements for this student during the test are appropriate? - Correct Answer providing the student with this testing accomodation only if it is specified in her Section 504 Plan (Competency 2) Midway through the year, a 2nd grade teacher convenes a student success team to plan additional support for a student who is performing somewhat below grade-level 1 / 2
standards in reading. Other members of the team include the student and her parents, another teacher who works closely with the student, and a school administrator. In the context of developing an improvement plan for the student, which of the following pieces of information would be most important for the teacher to communicate to the success team? - Correct Answer a description of the student's assessed strengths and weaknesses that could serve as a foundation for addressing her needs (Competency 2) A kindergarten teacher plays the following game with stuetns. The teacher says, "Guess whose name I'm going to say now?" The teacher then says the initial sound of a student's name (e.g., /m/ for Mariko), and the children try to guess the name. This activity is likely to promote the reading development of students primarily by helping
them: - Correct Answer recognize that a spoken word is made up of sounds.
(Competency 3) Which of the following informal assessments would be most appropriate to use to assess an individual student's phonemic awareness? - Correct Answer asking the student to identify the sound at the beginning, middle, or end of a spoken word (e.g., "What sound do you hear at the end of STEP?") (Competency 3) A kindergarten teacher is preparing a student for a phonemic awareness assessment.
Teacher: What is this picture of? (the teacher displays a picture of a boat)
Student: A boat?
Teacher: A boat, that's right. Now let's say the word BOAT together very slowly: /b/.../o/.../t/...(The teacher slowly repeats the word.)
Student: Three?
Teacher: That's right, three. Now, I'd like you to do this for some more words.
This assessment would be an appropriate way to test the students' ability to perform which of the following phonemic awareness tasks? - Correct Answer recognizing how many phonemes are contained in a word (Competency 3) The use of rhyming texts for kindergarten read-alouds is likely to promote the reading development of kindergarten students primarily by: - Correct Answer fostering their phonological awareness. (Competency 3) Which of the following strategies would best help a kindergarten student who is having difficulty visually distinguishing between the letters b and d? - Correct Answer helping the student focus on the directionality of each letter as the student traces it (Competency 4)
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