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WorksheetsRICA: Subtest Three
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 50mins
A fourth-grade student asked the teacher to help with a passage he didn't understand. With the teacher's support, the student feels confident to continue independently.
Is the text?
Instructional Level
Frustration Level
Evaluating Comprehension Skills
Independent Reading Level
Effective instructional delivery of content needs to be?
Planned and Standardized
Direct and Explicit
Approved and Relatable
Kinder students not retaining information from reading at home, how can parents help?
Ask question as they read reading, check for understanding
Ask questions after reading
Remind students what happen in the story.
What shows Differentiated Instruction?
Pre-teach and Reteach to tailoring students needs.
Monotone lesson
What informal assessment strategy would you use to determine a student's attention and motivation in reading?
Ask comprehension questions about various types of written materials.
Compare Oral reading rates to familiar and unfamiliar passages.
Observe the student in a variety of reading situations regularly.
This form is used for progress monitoring and would help the teacher determine the?
Related content
help teachers identify gaps in student understanding and instruction
What is the most important question a teacher should consider when looking at students' independent reading log entries?
Books related to the content area.
Increasingly challenging text.
Books related to class discussions.
Books related to students interest.
During parent-teacher conferences, what is the most effective strategy for a third-grade student under benchmark?
Provide the benchmark standards to parents.
Explain results and specific strategies the teacher will use with student.
Difficulty will be address in a timely manner.
Provide research in development in reading.
According to RICA content specifications, the two aspects that all reading and language arts programs include are?
Comprehensive instruction and Standardized Instruction
Balanced Instruction and Comprehensive Instruction.
Balanced Instruction and Individualized Instruction.
When a student who has a disability can't participate in that STAR testing among his grade-level peers, what should a teacher do?
Test in Alternative testing as stated on the IEP.
Petition for an accommodation to be set so they can participate in the test with his peers.
Should you provide reading intervention for a student at the end of kinder/ first-grader?
Lack of phonemic awareness.
They can't multiply.
A teacher has a conference with their fourth-grade student. The teacher helps the student write a checklist of things the student needs to improve on.
Meets with teacher to rely on peer editing.
One-on-one to check the student's grading.
Motivate students to use the checklist to promote personal accountablity and responsibility towards goals.
What are the standardized tests, and what is the purpose of these tests?
Able to assess data on a large scale of students
To see if they meet the standars
What is differentiated instruction?
Facilitating a lesson that caters to different personalities and learning styles to achieve academic and social development.
Provided different materials to different students to give differentiated instruction.
Meeting the needs of all learners, including making adjustments to meet the needs of individual learners.
How do standardized tests demonstrate validity?
Assess what it means to measure; knowledge and skills
All the students pass the test.
A fifth-grade teacher doing buddy reading with 1st-grade students. What should the fifth-grade teacher do FIRST?
The teacher would begin by discussing goals and purpose.
Have the first grader read to the fifth grader only.
Meet with the first-grade teacher and go over the first-grade curriculum.
When a teacher creates a lesson plan to promote a specific reading skill, they should make sure that?
The target reading skill relates to instructional progression and reflects appropriately the students' needs.
The student knows their multiplication table.
What should a teacher consider when interpreting the reading assessment results for a student who joined the class at the end of January?
Finding relations to the student's weekly work assessments.
Ask the student what their score was in September.
What percentage should a student read at an independent reading level?
95%
85%
75%
A third-grade teacher is consulting the second-grade standards for entry assessment. This will help the teacher to see if they mastered?
Determine independent, instruction and frustration reading levels.
California standards and the student level.
Which would required prompt intervention
A kinder student who performs poorly in phonemic awareness at the end of the year
First grader who can't decode multisyllabic words.
Transitional spelling at the end of first grade.
Which assessment at the end of the year would be considered if not passed yet?
Kindergarten not mastered phonemic awareness.
They can't sign the pledge.
A new fourth-grade teacher reviews students' assessments and portfolios at the beginning of the year. What should she do next to plan instruction?
Consult w/ Admin and Curriculum guidelines about fourth-grade content standars.
Order a research-based book
What are Reading Assessment forms used best for?
To monitor student progress in Specific Reading skill.
To see where the students are using instruction strategies.
To know their reading frustration, independent level, etc.
Middle school:
How can a teacher ensure reading instruction for the whole class?
Teach reading strategies and instructions to the whole class.
Teach reading strategies only to the whole class.
Teach reading instructions only to the whole class.
Mystery novel:
Why is the teacher's strategy?
The teacher reads a passage from a mystery novel to the class and stops at a certain point. The students ask for the teacher to continue reading, but she declines. The teacher stated, "If you want to continue, borrow the book from the classroom library.
To encourage students to read more advanced texts.
To stimulate students' broadening knowledge in other genres.
Immediate intervention:
First-grader who hasn't mastered the skill by the end of the year.
Decoding Multisyllabic words.
Pre-phonetic Spelling.
What reading assessments should teachers use for feedback on EL learners?
Formal and Informal reading assessments.
Formal reading assessments.
Informal reading assessments.
What should a new teacher do to motivate and promote reading from her classroom reading shelves?
Student Reading Log; keeping track of their interest and reads.
Talk about new stories, getting to know their readers.
What should a first-grade teacher do when a student is bored, tired, fidgety, and often moves when reading?
Suggest a reward system.
Elicit assessments
Plan and monitor progress with weekly checking.
A Reading Graph is shown:
How many students are reading at the Independent/ Instructional level?
One student
Ten students
100 students
The CCSS literacy framework.
Reading is taught throughout different subjects.
Reading is taught through single subjects.
What is the goal of Standard-Based Reading Instruction?
Every student will meet the content standards of the CA State Board of Education.
At least 95% of the students will meet the content standards of the CA State Board of Education.
At least 90% of the students will meet the content standards of the CA State Board of Education.
What should the teacher suggest to the parent when the student can concentrate on reading at school but not at home?
Have the student set a weekly reading goal and have the parent monitor their progress.
Give the students an interest survey to find out what books they like.
Conduct an elicit assessment to find out the interest and reading level of the reading materials at home.
Midway through the year:
A second-grade teacher convenes a student success team to plan additional support for a student performing somewhat below grade-level standards in reading.
What important information should the teacher communicate to the team?
A description of the student's assessed strengths and weaknesses could serve as a foundation for addressing her needs.
A list of appropriate formal reading assessments could be used for the student's summative evaluations.
A list of each formal and informal reading assessment the student has taken so far during the school year.
A strategy the teacher should suggest:
A teacher is helping a student find books at the student's independent reading level at the library.
Teaching students how to read a few paragraphs of the book indicates reading difficulty.
Ask the students how to read a few sentences, indicating difficulty.
Do FIRST:
The teacher looks at last year's standards before assigning entry-level assessments to students.
What should the teacher know before planning instruction on specific skills?
Know what prerequisite skills they need for reading before she develops strategies.
Know what reading skills they've met before she comes up with strategies.
What grouping should a teacher use for intervention after whole-class instruction?
Homogenous groups according to the severity of their needs.
Homogenous group according to their reading interest.
Heterogeneous reading grouping is?
Groups composed of children with different reading abilities. At least one student with advance skills in a group.
Students with the same instructional reading level
Homogeneous reading grouping is?
Groups composed of children with different reading abilities
Students with the same instructional reading level
What does a standardized test has reliability mean?
A test is reliable if at least 60% or more students receive a passing mark.
A test has reliability if the results yield consistent scores across administrations.
A test is reliable if 85% or more students pass.
What is the most important thing to consider when interpreting Reading Assessment results for a particular student?
How did the student's performance on this assessment compare with their peers?
Are these findings sufficient to assign a grade to the student's performance?
The teacher should consider work in other content areas related to these findings.
A sixth-grade teacher wants to support EL Learners in the class:
Which of the following strategies is likely to be most effective in addressing this objective?
Making available in the classroom content-area texts at various levels that supplement and reinforce the information presented in students' textbooks.
Setting up an area in the classroom where students can reread the content-area textbook quietly and independently.
By replacing classroom content-area books with more straightforward texts on the same subjects, EL learners can understand more readily.
What is Frustration Reading Level?
A student CANNOT correctly read at least 90% of the words aloud and CANNOT answer at least 60% of the comprehension questions.
A student CAN correctly read at least 90% of the words aloud and CAN answer at least 60% of the comprehension questions.
What is the Instructional Reading Level?
A student reads 90% of the words accurately and answers at least 60% of the comprehension questions correctly.
A student CANNOT correctly read at least 90% of the words aloud and CANNOT answer at least 60% of the comprehension questions.
What is his reading level?
A student reads a book independently. After, he answers ten comprehension questions. He gets five correct.
Frustration level: answered less than 60% correctly.
Independent level:
answered 95%
Meeting with EL's family and teacher:
EL's family doesn't speak any English.
What advice should the teacher give the parents about helping the student become a fluent reader?
Read English Only books.
Read books in their Native/ Primary language.
To promote specific reading skills when creating lesson plans, the teacher should?
Targeted reading skills are related to an appropriate instructional progression and reflect students' needs.
Targeted reading skills are grade-appropriate and taught to all students using the same instructional methods.
Reading teachers have a conference.
What should they discuss?
Discuss and analyze significant reading events that occurred in the classroom.
Discuss whole and small group strategies, not individual students.
A sixth grader who is advanced in most areas of reading has difficulty completing assigned reading selections. Which of the following would be his teacher's best initial strategy for addressing this difficulty?
Adapting the student's reading assignments to reduce their complexity and level of cognitive challenge.
Telling the students that his grades will be based on his ability to improve his concentration when he works on reading assignments.
Breaking down the student's reading assignments into small steps and helping him learn to monitor his attention and progress.
