Rica subtest 1 : May - jun part 1

A first grade teacher considers ways to help a new student who is beginning English Learners development skills, phonemic awareness and knowledge of English sounds. Which of the following steps will be most important for the teacher to take first?

• Collecting a set of simple rhyming poems in English to practice reciting with the student

• Preparing a list of simple English words with different vowel sounds for the student to study

• Gaining some basic familiarity of students primary “native” language

• Making a study tape for the student by recording an oral reading of high-frequency English words.

Which of the following strategies would best help a kindergarten teacher assess a student’s ability to blend phonemes?\

• Say the words set, pet and map. Then ask the child which one sounds different

• Say the sounds /s/ /e/ /t/ separately, then ask the child to say them as one word.

• Say the words sat set and sit then ask the child to say them with /m/ in place of /s/.

• Say the word set, then ask the child to tap once for each sound the word contains

What strategy is best used to teach phonemic awareness?

• Saying the alphabet aloud

• Sing “old McDonald”

• Break apart words from a list

• Say the individual sounds of a word

A student who joins a first grade classroom in October performs poorly on a phonemic awareness activity. To address this students reading needs, which of the following steps would be most important for the teacher to take first?

• Engaging student in a variety of beginning phonics games and activities

• Consulting informally with the special education teacher to see if the student might benefit from an individualized education program

• Conducting formal phonemic awareness assessments with the student

• Making immediate plans for a sequence of differentiated instruction for the student in phonemic awareness skills.

A third a grade teacher develops a words list from a small group of students that includes words representing complex phonic patterns. After reviewing the list with students the teacher allowed a NEW set of words that follow the same pattern and the students wrote down the words. The activity demonstrates the teacher awareness of the importance of?

• Developing student recognition of common syllable patterns to support accurate reading and writing

• Helping students understand use of invented spelling to reinforce their phonics skills and foster self expression

• Helping student understand how the morphology of words relate to spellings patterns

• Using writing activities to give students opportunities to apply phonics knowledge to new words.

Prosody has which of these characteristics?

• Variation in pitch and intonation

• Reading which excitement and correct intonation like teachers do. Choral reading

• Pronunciation of phonemes

• Reading at a rapid rate

• Co-articulation of word boundaries

Which of the following factors will most disrupt a second grade student’s fluency, where the respect to accuracy?

• The student does not regularly use mega cognitive strategies to monitor comprehension

• The student does not recognize common inflected morphemes when they appear in unfamiliar words.

• A student is more familiar with the text structures of narrative texts than those of expository text

• A student is not familiar with common textual features that can help support comprehension

In a curriculum based oral reading fluency assessment conducted in September, a second grade student has an accuracy relate of 98% reading rate of 39wpm or words below 50% of our benchmark of 51 wpm. These results such as the teacher hound plan instruction of the student that focuses on which of the following dimensions of reading fluency?

• Enhancing the student’s contextual word analysis skills

• Promoting the student’s automatic word recognitions

• Textual comprehension

• Prosody

A teacher is helping students learn orthographic generalization for adding suffixes to words in “y”. In addition to promoting their spelling development, their type of lesson is likely to promote student’s reading development by?

• Development Vocabulary knowledge

• Building academic language

• Improving pronunciation of words

• Enhancing decoding skills

A third grader likes to read and demonstrates strong word recognition skills, but he typically reads aloud in a halting manner and sometimes has difficulty answering comprehension questions after reading aloud a simple text. To help address the student’s reading difficulty, the teacher selects familiar texts at his independent reading level and then marks appropriate phrasing, as illustrated below.

• Helping him learn how to recognize and convey idea units as he reads aloud.

• Enhancing his auditory awareness and ability to segment sounds in words as he reads aloud

• Guiding him to apply a variety of word identification strategies as he reads

• Improving his ability to analyze grammatical structures as he reads