RICA Practice Quiz

The most powerful predictor of success in learning to read is:

• Knowledge of phonics

• Knowledge of the alphabet

• Phonemic awareness

• Concepts of print

The alphabetic principle is important for:

• Learning to write

• Learning to read

• Learning the alphabet

• All of the options.

• None of the options.

The best reading materials for teaching phonics are:

• High quality literature

• Decodable texts

• Pattern books

• Stories that students create

Effective phonics instruction:

• builds from basic elements.

• includes memorization of lists and rules.

• makes explicit connections between phonemes and graphemes.

• "Builds from..." & "Includes memorization..."

• "Builds from..." & "Makes explicit..."

One of the more difficult phonemic awareness activities is:

• Sound addition and subtraction

• Rhyming

• Segmenting

• Counting phonemes in spoken words

An example of an effective phonological awareness activity is:

• Matching upper and lowercase letters

• Playing sight word Bingo

• Sorting images based on their beginning sound

• Choral reading a text

Phonics is the set of relationships between:

• Phonemes and etymology

• Phonemes and morphemes

• Phonology and orthography

• None of the above

Answer explanation

Orthography refers to the spelling system of a language. Phonics is about writing out sounds!

Concepts of print include the following EXCEPT:

• Recognizing word boundaries

• Being able to track words in a sentence from left to right

• Knowing the purpose of punctuation

• Knowing how to spell simple words

• Recognizing upper and lower case letters

Elkonin boxes are best utilized to meet the needs to students who, after evaluation, require more support in the area of:

• Phonics

• Rhyming

• Phoneme manipulation

• Phoneme segmentation

The alphabetic principle is:

• Phoneme recognition

• Letter (graphemes) matches to sounds (phonemes)

• Upper case letter recognition in order

• Lower case letter recognition