RICA Subtest 2 - 2nd half

5th grade lesson on signal words - - therefore since, because. 

How does it promote comprehension and memory?

• New Vocabulary

• Morphemes

• Learn common text structure

• Phonemes

Students are working in groups. What is the best strategy to take notes?

• Take turns reading

• Outline

• Note taking

• write down content terms

A group of 4th graders are reading a book. They are overheard arguing about what the conflict in the story is . The Teacher suggests that they meet together once a week to talk about the book.  The teacher has suggested this because…

• Students not understanding authors point

• Identify conflict and resolution

• basic elements of the plot that support conflict crisis, and resolution

7th graders are learning about medieval society. They are introduced to similar terms like lords, vassals, and serfs showing they already have in-depth knowledge about medieval society. The students were able to have a good discussion on the topic. When the teacher started reading the passage about it, they were not understanding the main point. The teacher wanted them to write definitions of the words. However, when they read the text explaining about “Feudalism”, they did not understand the whole concept/contents. 

Why are they struggling?

• The excerpt of the passage was more complex

• Students were not paying attention when reading the passage

• Passage was not clear with defintions

teacher grouping students in small groups for content and language -English Learners and flexible grouping and its benefits on their development of academic language

• Exposes the ELs to more oral academic language

• Exposes students to small group routine

• Students learn best when using flexible grouping

A teacher does a multiple part lesson on 3 different types of lessons throughout the week to incorporate the word responsibility.

            Three activities in the question that the teacher had the students do:

-In a group, identify other words that are morphologically similar to “responsible”

-Have them read a narrative essay about being “responsible” 

-Have them write an essay about how they are responsible at school or at home

What was the purpose of this?

• Multiple ways to keep students busy

• Multiple exposure of the vocabulary words

• Multiple ways to show the word responsible

Which is an essential component to promote a vocabulary program for elementary and middle school students?

• Explicit instruction in generalizable word learning strategies

• Content area vocabulary

• oral instruction

• Exposing student to unfamiliar words

Question showed a worksheet for 5th graders that had the students add suffixes to words (ly, ed, etc.)

• Affixes

• Morphemes

• Morphology

• Phonology

A 4th grade teacher reads aloud “town century”

What instructional strategy do they use for the vocab?

• Understanding morphology

• Comprehension Questions

• Read aloud

• Understanding phonemes

An 8th grade History Teacher is teaching about the U.S. Constitution. The English learner has been in the U.S. for 2 years. Students are able to read fluently and comprehend any other text. However, students are struggling with this reading/content. What should the teacher do next?

• Discuss about background knowledge for this content

• Reread the text

• Highlight the text

• Discuss open ended questions