RICA Practice-Subtest 3

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A sixth 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. What is the teacher's best initial strategy for addressing this difficulty?

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Breaking down the student's reading assignments into small steps and helping him learn to monitor his own attention and progress.

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When creating lesson plans to promote specific reading skills, a teacher should make sure that:

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the targeted reading skills relate to an appropriate instructional progression and reflect students' needs

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An early elementary teacher could most effectively support at-home reading by:

• sending parents/guardians a regular newsletter describing classroom reading activities
• sharing with parents/guardians important articles from professional reading journals
• recommending books that parents/guardians would likely enjoy reading with their children
• providing parents/guardians with periodic reports on their children's progress in reading

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recommending books that parents/guardians would likely enjoy reading with their children

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A sixth-grade teacher wants to ensure that the classroom reading environment supports content-area learning for the English Learners in the class. Which strategy is likely to be most effective?

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making available in the classroom content-area texts at various levels that supplement and reinforce the information presented in students' textbooks

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What is most important for a teacher to consider when interpreting a student's reading assessment results?

• How did the student's performance on this assessment compare with that of the student's classmates?
• How do these findings relate to the student's performance on other recently administered reading assessments?
• Are these findings sufficient to assign a grade to the student's performance?
• Do these findings provide information about the student's ranking in regard to national norms of reading achievement?

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How do these findings relate to the student's performance on other recently administered reading assessments?

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When planning classroom entry-level and progress-monitoring assessments for students with IEPs, what should a teacher do?

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Consult each student's IEP to determine any specific testing accommodations required for that student.

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A middle school teacher is preparing for the class to take the sixth-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?

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 providing the student with this testing accommodation only if it is specified in her Section 504 Plan

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In a student success team meeting for a second-grade student performing below grade-level in reading, what information is most important for the teacher to communicate?

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A description of the student's assessed strengths and weaknesses that could serve as a foundation for addressing her needs.