RICA Subtest 2

Front

Teacher's best response to a third grader selecting formulaic books that do little to extend conceptual or language development?

Back

Provide the student with books with similar themes or on similar topics that are more challenging for him.

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A second-grade student has limited vocabulary knowledge, which hinders the student's word recognition and reading comprehension. The student's oral reading is slow and labored, and the student typically spends the majority of independent reading time browsing through books, making little effort to read the actual words on the page. What is most likely to happen if this student receives no instructional intervention?

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The student will begin to fall behind peers in reading development and will continue to fall further behind in later grades as texts include increasingly difficult vocabulary.

Front

What is an important limitation of teaching students to rely on context as their primary strategy for determining the meaning of unfamiliar words in texts?

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Explicit context clues about a word's meaning are not very common in most texts, while implicit contextual clues often require students to apply background knowledge they lack.

Front

How does the activity of identifying words with the morpheme dict promote vocabulary development?

Back

apply knowledge of word roots as a word-learning strategy.

Front

A teacher substitutes blank spaces for several nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs in a text and asks students to fill them. Why is this technique useful for assessing understanding of English language structures?

Back

select appropriate words based on their grammatical function as well as on their meaning.

Front

How are the phrases after neither and nor similar in the sentence: "Neither walking on the beach nor running around the track cheered Ahmed up."?

Back

recognize parallel grammatical structures.

Front

What is the likely benefit of combining sentences like: 'Matthew stood and waited for the bus. The sun was blazing hot. Matthew fanned himself with the newspaper.' into 'Waiting for the bus, Matthew stood in the blazing sun, fanning himself with the newspaper'?

Back

Strengthen their ability to comprehend and write complex sentences.

Front

Which word's meaning can be determined using structural analysis? Options: impassable, elephant, interim, examine.

Back

impassable

Front

Purpose of using a Venn diagram in a passage about comets and meteoroids.

Back

Organize textual information according to similarities and differences.

Front

What strategy would be most effective for a teacher to use to help a student with a reading disability access a challenging drama text and participate in class discussions?

• Assign the play early
• Provide a narrative version
• Assign selected portions
• Provide an audio recording

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Provide an audio recording of the play to listen to in conjunction with his reading