RICA Practice-Subtest 2

Front

What should a teacher do if a third grader consistently chooses formulaic books that do not extend his conceptual or language development?

Back

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

Front

What is most likely to happen if a second-grade student with limited vocabulary knowledge receives no instructional intervention?

Back

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?

Back

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. What does this technique assess in students?

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

Which word's meaning can be determined using structural analysis? Options: Impassable, Elephant, Interim, Examine

Back

Impassable

Front

What comprehension strategy is most effective for using facts from a text to complete a Venn diagram?

Back

organize textual information according to similarities and differences

Front

What strategy would be most effective for a teacher 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

Back

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

Front

What additional step would be most helpful for a teacher before a student's oral retelling of a story?

Back

Prepare a checklist of the key elements that an effective retelling of this story should include.