RICA PRACTICE TEST 3

A- the first question is where the child asks the teacher if he does not know what exothermic means, what would the teacher suggest or what would the teacher do to help assist the student.

• Context clues

• Word morphology

(Domain 1, Comp 2) A teacher had two disabled students in her classroom.  Asked what should be done for STAR testing.  What should the teacher do during a state testing?

• Refer to each individual student’s IEP

• Nothing

(Domain 1, competency 2) A first grade teacher notices one of her students is struggling with reading.  He is in the lowest-achieving group.  The teacher has tried some strategies to improve his reading but seems to make no progress.  The next step the teacher should take in working with the student is to?

• Assess his reading and target instruction to meet identified skills needs.

• help him succeed with strategies

A middle school teacher designs an instructional activity in which students combine several sentences to form a single sentence, as illustrated below.Single sentence:

Waiting for the bus, Matthew stood in the blazing sun, fanning himself with the newspaper.

This activity is likely to be most effective in helping students to:

• strengthen their ability to comprehend and write complex sentences.

• read

IEP students doing a STAR test and need accommodation?

• Just remember that any student on an IEP you follow their IEP accommodations.

• do whatever the teacher wants

  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.  Which of the following strategies would be best to address this?

• Breaking down the students reading assignments into smaller steps and helping him to monitor his own progress.

• leave him alone

• do nothing

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

• The targeted reading skills relate to an appropriate instructional progression and reflect the students needs.

• nothing

Best strategy for students to learn a given history chapter for an assessment:

• Looking at titles and subtitles and identifying main ideas 

  And writing brief summary about each section

• A outline the entire chapter with Roman numerals, ect.

• Research skills 

Teacher asks students to provide information (about a topic, something like this) and writes the words students provided on the board creating a web graphic organizer, what is the next step?

• Organize the words into categories

• Master CVC words

This assessment best demonstrates which phonological awareness skill?

• Concept of word blending

• Context clues