RICA Practice-Subtest 1

Front

A kindergarten teacher plays a game where they say the initial sound of a student's name, and children guess the name. What reading skill does this activity primarily promote?

Back

Recognize that a spoken word is made up of sounds.

Front

Which informal assessment is most appropriate to assess an individual student's phonemic awareness?

Back

identify the sound at the beginning, middle, or end of a spoken word

Front

This assessment would be an appropriate way to test the student's ability to perform which of the following phonemic awareness tasks? Options: counting and blending the phonemes in a word, identifying onsets and rimes, recognizing how many phonemes are contained in a word, relating phonemes to letters.

Back

recognizing how many phonemes are contained in a word

Front

The use of rhyming texts for kindergarten read-alouds is likely to promote the reading development of kindergarten students primarily by:

Back

fostering their phonological awareness

Front

Which strategy best helps a kindergarten student distinguish between the letters b and d?

Back

helping the student focus on the directionality of each letter as the student traces it

Front

A first grader can identify the letters of the alphabet and decode simple words but becomes confused when tracking print in consecutive lines. What strategy is most effective in helping the student read a short paragraph of simple text?

Back

Have him use his finger or a marker as he reads the text

Front

Which instructional practice is most effective in promoting kindergarten students' understanding of the alphabetic principle?

Back

Routinely saying the sounds in words when writing the words on the board.

Front

An emergent reader frequently reverses some letters and numbers during writing tasks. Which strategy would be most effective in helping this student develop more accurate letter formation skills?

Back

having the student practice tracing the target letter shapes with a finger while saying aloud the sequence of steps to form each letter

Front

In the word chimpanzee, which of the following pairs of letters is a digraph? Options: ch, mp, an, ee

Back

ch

Front

A kindergarten student is worried about misspelling words. How can the teacher best promote her reading and writing development?

Back

Reassuring her that it is okay for now to express herself in writing by spelling words as they sound.