14. Students who are strong readers often perform poorly on standardized reading tests because they are not sure what to do in response to the assessment task. This situation is most typically the results of the students having limited understanding of:

Important academic terms such as justify and evaluate that commonly appear in assessment questions

How to identify the main ideas and details and text if the text appears in an assessment

How to make educated guesses on an assessment if they do not know the answer to a specific question

The important structural differences between narrative literary and expository/information text

15. After a vocabulary lesson a second grade teacher asks students to make up new words based on what they have discussed. A student raised her hand and announces “I must be a sweet- o- phile because I love sweet things” .The student has demonstrated that she has development that:

Graphemes map to spoken language

Word families provide clues to spelling

Phonemes are the smallest unit of sound

18. A 5th grade teacher regularly engages students in activities such as synonym bingo in which students complete bingo cards by matching academic vocabulary words called out by the teacher to synonyms printed on their cards and synonym terms in which students orally provide for given grade level vocabulary words. This practice best demonstrates the teacher’s awareness that an effective vocabulary program should be activities that

Develop and extend students understanding that words can have multiple meanings

Enhance students ability to use contextual analysis to determine the meaning of new words

Promote students ability to recognize morphological relationships among words

Enrich and reinforce students understanding of words and their meanings

21. When the prefix un- is added to the beginning of a word, the new word means the opposite of the old one. (lucky/unlucky) When the prefix re- is added to the beginning of a word, the new word means that something happens again.(consider/reconsider) When the prefix pre- is added to the beginning of a word, the new word means that something happens before something else. (caution/precaution) The team was not beaten all season. It was _____. Juan had to pay before he would begin the music lessons. He had to ______. The worksheet is most likely to….

Use knowledge of morphology to determine the meaning of words independently

to learn about prefixes and suffixes

understanding sentence structure

introduce past and present tense

22. 4th or 5th grade teacher is teaching a unit on using atlas, periodicals, and other physical paper sources so students can use it for research and she wanted to assess whether they knew what sources to use for research before moving on to the next unit. Showing the students a full set of encyclopedias. Then, the teacher would present some sample entries and ask students to identify the volume where the entry would be located.

The teacher gives each student a set of factual comprehension questions. The students need to answer using multiple sources. The teacher should provide questions that need to be answered using multiple sources

Students do a worksheet and match subjects/content to appropriate sources that you would need.

Teacher observations/Anecdotal Records

Students write an essay using each of the sources for information

25. A fifth grade teacher is concerned that some of the English learners in the class may have difficulty interpreting various idioms (e.g. sweating..burning the candles on both ends) found in a text the students will soon be reading. Which of the following pre reading strategies is likely to be most promoting the English Learner's understanding of the concept of idiomatic expressions and facilitating their comprehension of the text?

Explaining that figurative meaning of the target idioms to the classes and them having pairs of students create drawings illustrations on literal and figurative meaning.

Providing the classes with several copies of a comprehensive reference book of English idioms with literal definitions when reading the text

Having students work with a partner to write a brief essay reflecting on other English idioms they have encountered

Having students diagram the sentences from the text that contain the idioms, so they can determine the grammatical .. different words composing each idiom

26. Which of the following activities is likely to be most effective in promoting 8th grade students’ evaluative comprehension skills?

Students use reference materials to verify the evidence presented by two authors who wrote opposing articles about a controversial issue

Students read an excerpt from an autobiography that includes flashback and then work with a partner to diagram the chronology narrative

Students identify and paraphrase an author's key points about political and economic factors that led to the Civil War

Students read an account of a historical event and then meet in small groups to discuss the event

27. Scanning would be the most effective reading strategy for a student who wants to:

Search quickly through the text to locate relevant information for a research project

Analyze the strength of a writer's arguments and assumptions in a text

Take detailed notes on a text while reading it for the second time

Focus on key vocabulary words during in-depth reading

28. A girl wrote a poem and used the word “softly” in every line but used in different ways The wind was blowing softly My mom asked me to do something softly My cat did something softly I pet my cat softly

the student understands that words have different meanings

Student understands figurative language

student understand different literal meaning

student understands the different language used

31. An elementary teacher closely monitors students' independent reading through the use of students reading logs and brief, regular conferences with individual students. During these conferences the teacher helps guide the student toward books that fall …assessed independent and instructional reading levels. This practice is likely to promote students' vocabulary development?

Ensuring that students will be exposed to appropriately challenging words during independent reading

Supporting students ability to apply word learning strategies to unfamiliar words encountered during independent…

Motivating students to engage in independent reading that stimulates their interest in and enthusiasm for words

Providing students with a strategy for selecting books with appropriate vocabulary for independent reading..

36. At the beginning of the school year, a fourth grade teacher decides to assess students' knowledge of how to use basic English conventions. Which of the following initial strategies would be most appropriate for this purpose?

The teacher asks students to write a paragraph on a subject of their choice and evaluate their use of language

Students read a passage from a text that includes complex sentences and respond to comprehension questions.

Students complete a teacher made worksheet that requires them to match various grammatical terms with the…

The teacher leads a class discussion about English language conventions and informally assess students

37. Early in the school year a 5th grade teacher presents a lesson on signal words (e.g. therefore, because, since) that students are likely to see in their reading. This lesson is most likely to promote reading comprehension and memory by helping students?

Recognize common text structures

Draw on prior content knowledge

Use word morphology to determine meaning

41. Students in a 7th grade class are studying medieval society. The teacher periodically assesses students’ vocabulary…them with pairs of related words (e.g. vassals and serfs)that have been used in readings and class discussions. For each word they must write a sentence that uses both words in a meaningful way. An important advantage of this assessment method is…?

Allows students to demonstrate their understanding the words often have multiple meanings

Tests students ability to decode unfamiliar vocabulary words by using context clues.

Allows students to demonstrate their conceptual understanding of the vocabulary words

Test students ability to use structural analysis as a word identification strategy

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

it exposes the ELs to more oral academic language

accommodating them to their needs

exposing the students to their peers lanuage

explicitly teaching academic lanugage

43. A 4th grade teacher does a multiple part lesson on 3 different types of lessons throughout the week to involving the word responsibility. Some of the activities are listed below: Writing the word and its definition on the board and then having students generate an discuss morphologically and/or semantically related words and phrases Having students read and discuss a narrative essay entitled: The Responsible Thing To Do Having students write a short descriptive essay beginning with the phrase, “My biggest responsibility at school (or at home) is…” The approach to vocabulary instruction best demonstrates the teacher/’s understanding of the value of:

Promoting integration of word knowledge through repeating and purposeful exposure

Promoting students genuine interest in and enthusiasm for vocabulary study

Teaching students independent strategies for building word knowledge

Encouraging students wide reading of narrative and informational texts to promote word knowledge

44. Which of the following is an essential component of an effective vocabulary program for elementary and middle school students?

Explicit instruction in generalizable word learning strategies

Explicit instructions in expressive oral language skills

Frequent opportunities for students to be exposed to unusual words in the classroom environment

Frequent opportunities for students to reread texts written at their independent reading levels

46. A fourth grade teacher is reading aloud a novel and come to the sentence the town centennial celebration was coming up soon and the whole Community Was preparing for it. The teacher pauses briefly to analyze the possible meaning of the word Centennial by more familiar related words cent, Century, and annual. The teacher quickly concludes that Centennial might mean a hundred years and asks carefully as the teacher continues to read to see if the text confirms the hypothesis. This instructional practice is most clearly…..

Promotes development of morphological strategies as an essential component of the curriculum

Includes the study of multiple many words in the Upper Elementary and Middle grades

Teaches students new vocabulary only in the content of reading authentic passages

Provide systematic and sequential treatment of targeted grade level words

47. An 8th grade English Learner moved to the United States two years ago. This student reads English fluently and comprehends most of other texts but she's having difficulty understanding a chapter on US History in her social studies textbook. The teacher's response in this situation would be to?

Talk with the student to determine the extent of her background knowledge about the topic

the chapter more slowly and to look up unfamiliar terms in their glossary

Provide the student with a list of question to answer as she reads the chapter

Encourage the student to create an outline of the chapter as she reads it

48. Having an understanding of the different tiers of vocabulary would best help a teacher determine

Which vocabulary words from a reading passage to teach

Which strategies to determine the meaning of words to model for students

Whether a particular word contains a Greek or Latin root

Whether particular student is meeting grade level expectations and vocabulary knowledge

51. Which of the following study skills is likely to be most effective in helping students comprehend and recall information they read and a textbook?

Working in small groups, students quiz one another on the definitions of keywords in the chapter after reading it

Students read the chapter slowly and carefully, taking detailed notes as they read

Students locate the chapters headings and subheadings before reading and convert each heading into a question to be answered

Working in small groups, students take turns reading the chapter allowed before they read it silently

54. An upper elementary teacher would like to use student response journals as a method for assessing student comprehension and Analysis towards text. Which of the following Journal writing assignments would be most effective for this purpose?

the teacher poses one or more open-ended questions about a text and students must include evidence from the text

students are asked to free write about their reactions to and feelings about a text immediately after they read it

students are prompted to relate in their journals a personal experience that came to mind as they were reading a given text

the teacher provides a short list of factual questions about events and characters in the text and students respond in their journals

55. 1.The teacher writes a simple sentence on the board (ex: The dog barked) and reads it aloud 2. The teacher then writes the sentence again with a blank (e.g, The _____ dog barked), and students suggest a descriptive word (e.g. little) 3. The teacher writes the sentence a third time with a second blank for the students to fill in (e.g. The little dog barked _____.) The students suggest another word (e.g. loudly) 4. the teacher repeats step 1-3 with another sentence suggested by students For English Learners, the activity described above is likely to be especially helpful in:

Reinforcing their understanding of English sentence structure

Facilitating their comprehension by activating and developing background knowledge

Improving their ability to decode unfamiliar English words

Enhancing their phonemic awareness skills

59. What mainly leads to the acquisition of vocabulary for students from grades 4th to 8th in that four year span?

Explicit classroom vocabulary instruction

Content area specific vocabulary instruction

Everyday knowledge from developed cognition

67. A 6th grade teacher is preparing the lesson plans for upcoming school years for reading as well as math and science. Which of the following instructional reading plans does she need to consider?

Is the context vocabulary across area related?

Using the same reading skills in other subjects/content area something like that

graphic organizers for visual representation

following the CA content standards

71. A fourth grade teacher ensures flexible grouping strategy that ensures that English Learners are included in a variety of small groups for both … and content area activities. This instructional approach best demonstrates the teacher’s awareness that English learners' development of academic English is enhanced by?

Involving the students in a range of situations that maximize their exposure to and use of academic language

Modifying classroom routines to motivate the students to improve their academic language performances

Challenging the students to monitor their own progress in achieving targeted english language goals

Limiting group size to minimize distractions and help the students concentrate on their language development

Having knowledge of the tier vocabulary strategies will best help or assist the teacher by or to:

Helps teacher meet the different languages need of students

Know what to vocabulary words to teach the students from a passage (Verbatim)

Part 3: Asked about the strategies the teacher would use to support literature comprehension

referring back to the text (literal comprehension information in it)

73. When reading aloud “big books” a 1 st grade teacher often pauses at the predictable points and encourages students to suggest words or phrases that could come next. The teacher awareness of the important promoting beginning readers’ reading development by:

Promoting their comprehension at the word and sentence level as well as at the test level.

Ensure their comprehension skills

To see if the students knows what is next in the story

improving their reading and comprehension skills

20. Teacher wrote a sentence about a girl writing… in 3 different ways…The question asked what the teacher is trying to teach. A middle school teacher designs a worksheet for students to complete as part of a series of classroom activities to promote their reading and writing development. Original sentence: Mary rose to her feet, smiling. New sentence #1 Smiling, Mary rose to her feet. Completing this worksheet is likely to improve students’ writing skills primarily by:

Giving students practice in manipulating sentence structure to vary writing style.

how to write different style of writing

5. Gerard's New Home: Which of the following strategies for effective discussion…does the teacher demonstrate as the students talk about Gerard’s New Home?

Encouraging the students to respond to another's idea and details from text

introducing new vocabulary in a context that …meaning of the words

promoting the students to relate stories to the …experiences

Using repetition to reinforce the students…concepts

5. Gerard's New Home Part 2: Which of the following comprehension strategies does Student 3 demonstrate during the group discussion?

Referring to the text to clarify meaning

Testing prediction he/she had made about the…

Using knowledge of text structure to enhance…

Drawing on prior knowledge to clarify meaning…

5. Gerard's New Home Part 3: During the group discussion, which of the following strategies does the teacher use to help students develop these responses to…?

Encouraging students to provide evidence from the text to support their interpretations

Prompting students to make personal connections to events described in the text

Prompting students to analyze the use of figurative language in the text

Encouraging students to recognize how..establishes the mood

S2 RICA Study Guide

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English

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1st - 5th Grade

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Practice Problem

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Easy

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CCSS

RF.3.3B, RF.3.4A, RF.2.4A

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MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

A sixth-grade teacher creates a written assessment in which the teacher leaves a word out of the sentence and asks students which of four nonsense words would be the most appropriate to use to complete the sentence. An example of this type of assessment is shown below.

Is familiar with common story structure

Intuitively make use of grammar when reading

Is able to analyze difficult sentence constructions.

Spontaneously chucks language into units when reading

Tags

CCSS.RF 4.3.A

CCSS.RF.1.3A

CCSS.RF.1.3E

CCSS.RF.2.4B

CCSS.RF.4.4B

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

3. Part 1: Understanding how punctuation is used to set off nonrestrictive…would enable students to gain which of the following pieces of information from this reading passage?

Reptiles need need outside courses of heat to keep them warm

All mammals are endotherms

Snakes are of often found basking on warm rocks

Reptiles are known as exotherms

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CCSS.L.6.2A

CCSS.L.7.1A

CCSS.L.9-10.1B

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

3.Part 2: One student comes to the teacher and says, “I get what an exotherm is but what's an endotherm?” This particular passage provides an especially good opportunity for the teacher to help the student?

Apply knowledge of suffixes to gain meaning from unfamiliar word

Learn to use standard textural guides such as

Apply skimming and scanning strategies

Recognize that an unfamiliar word’s …information necessary to define it.

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4B

CCSS.L.3.4C

CCSS.RF.3.3A

CCSS.RF.3.3B

CCSS.RF.4.3A

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

9. A first-grade teacher plans to assess a student's comprehension of a short story through oral retelling. After the student silently reads the story, the teacher will prompt the student's retelling by asking open-ended questions. To prepare for this assessment, the teacher reads the story carefully and composes the questions. Which of the following additional steps would be most helpful for the teacher to take before the retelling activity begins?

Prompt the student to recall similar tasks the student has previously

Review grades earned by the student on recent tests and quizzes in language arts.

Prepare a checklist of the key elements that an effective retelling of this story should include.

Remind the student to concentrate on recalling as many details as possible during the retelling.

Tags

CCSS.RF.1.3F

CCSS.RF.2.3A

CCSS.RF.2.3D

CCSS.RF.3.4B

CCSS.RF.5.4C

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

10. An eighth grade teacher is pleased that students are drawing on personal experience in their responses to literary texts but is concerned that some students tend to become so preoccupied with their own experience that their literary interpretations have little to no relation to the original text. Which of the following strategies would be the most appropriate and effective way for the teacher to address their concern?

Caution students about literary interpretations that are unrelated to the text and to reliant on personal experience

Give students a prereading summary of the plot and theme of the assigned literary text to help guide student responses

Provide Students with biographical information about the author of an assigned literary text to help students interpret the text

Plan instructional activities in which students support their itinerary responses with examples drawn from the text.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

11. Members of a literature Response Group in a sixth grade class are having difficulty initiating and sustaining Focus discussion about a text… the following instructional strategies is likely to be most effective in helping the students engage in more productive discussions that promote comprehension and Analysis of the text?

Meeting with the group to describe appropriate listening and speaking skills to use in academic discussions such as discussions about literature

Having the students take turns reading a loud favorite passages from the text and

Providing the students with explicit instruction in an activity such as questioning the author to help structure their discussion

Giving members of the group a question about their personal experience to reflect on before the group meets to discuss

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

30 sec • 1 pt

What study skill would you use for upper grade elementary?

Taking detailed notes as they are reading.

Work in small groups and read aloud and then silently

Work in small groups and quiz each other

Have the students look for main topic and titles and create questions to answer while reading

Tags

CCSS.RF.1.3C

CCSS.RF.1.3D

CCSS.RF.1.3F

CCSS.RF.1.4A

CCSS.RF.2.3B

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