RICA: SUBTEST 1 EXAM QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS 100% PASS
Phonological Awareness - ANS the ability to reflect on and manipulate the sound structure of
spoken language
Phonemic Awareness - ANS The ability to hear, identify,and manipulate the individual sounds,
phonemes, in oral language.
Phoneme - ANS speech sound in a language
Grapheme - ANS A written representation of a sound using one or more letters.
Vowels - ANS a, e, i, o, u
Onset and Rime - ANS -Parts of spoken language that are smaller than syllables but larger
than phonemes
-Onset is the initial consonant(s) sound of a syllable (the b- of bag; the sw- of swim)
-Rime is the part of the syllable that contains the vowel and all that follows it (the -ag of bag;
the -im of swim)
Word Awareness - ANS knowing that individual words make up a sentence
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,Syllable Awareness - ANS Counting, tapping, blending, or segmenting a word into syllables.
Syllable Blending - ANS the ability to put together parts of a word and make them into a new
word
Sound Isolation - ANS Give student a word, which sound occurs at beginning, middle and end
Sound Identity - ANS Student needs to know the same sound in words
Sound Blending - ANS Teacher says sounds with brief pauses and student reads and says
word
Sound Substitution - ANS Teacher asks child to substitute one sound for another to create a
new word
Sound Segmentation - ANS Isolate and identify the sounds in a spoken word
Yopp-Singer Test - ANS tests phonemic segmentation. This is a test of a student's ability to
separately articulate the sounds of a spoken word in order. Given individually. K-2nd grade.
Concepts About Print (CAP) - ANS Assesses the literacy knowledge of kindergarten children
and early first graders. Skills assessed: book handling skills, directionality, word-by-word
matching, locating words in print, etc. CAP lets teachers know what children understand about
print.
Meaning - ANS printed words convey meaning
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, Representation - ANS To understand a letter or word
Directionality - ANS Ability to track print. Left -> or Right Top -> Bottom
Book Handling Skills - ANS knowing how to handle a book and how books "work" (i.e., front
and back cover, left to right sweep)
The Shared Book Experience - ANS Teachers use big books. includes introduction (prereading)
ask predictive questions. read story with dramatic punch and point to text (tracking of print).
Have discussion, reread on subsequent days with the whole group
Letter Recognition - ANS ability to identify a grapheme by its name
Letter Naming - ANS The ability to say the name of a letter when the teacher points to it.
Letter Formation - ANS ability to write the lower and uppercase letters legibly. teaching
names of letters, not sounds.
Alphabetic Principle - ANS an understanding that letters and letter patterns represent the
sounds of spoken words.
Phonics - ANS the study of the sounds of the letters of the alphabet
Word Identification - ANS Ability to read aloud, or decode, words correctly.
Word Recognition - ANS the process of identifying a unique pattern of letters
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AND ANSWERS 100% PASS
Phonological Awareness - ANS the ability to reflect on and manipulate the sound structure of
spoken language
Phonemic Awareness - ANS The ability to hear, identify,and manipulate the individual sounds,
phonemes, in oral language.
Phoneme - ANS speech sound in a language
Grapheme - ANS A written representation of a sound using one or more letters.
Vowels - ANS a, e, i, o, u
Onset and Rime - ANS -Parts of spoken language that are smaller than syllables but larger
than phonemes
-Onset is the initial consonant(s) sound of a syllable (the b- of bag; the sw- of swim)
-Rime is the part of the syllable that contains the vowel and all that follows it (the -ag of bag;
the -im of swim)
Word Awareness - ANS knowing that individual words make up a sentence
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,Syllable Awareness - ANS Counting, tapping, blending, or segmenting a word into syllables.
Syllable Blending - ANS the ability to put together parts of a word and make them into a new
word
Sound Isolation - ANS Give student a word, which sound occurs at beginning, middle and end
Sound Identity - ANS Student needs to know the same sound in words
Sound Blending - ANS Teacher says sounds with brief pauses and student reads and says
word
Sound Substitution - ANS Teacher asks child to substitute one sound for another to create a
new word
Sound Segmentation - ANS Isolate and identify the sounds in a spoken word
Yopp-Singer Test - ANS tests phonemic segmentation. This is a test of a student's ability to
separately articulate the sounds of a spoken word in order. Given individually. K-2nd grade.
Concepts About Print (CAP) - ANS Assesses the literacy knowledge of kindergarten children
and early first graders. Skills assessed: book handling skills, directionality, word-by-word
matching, locating words in print, etc. CAP lets teachers know what children understand about
print.
Meaning - ANS printed words convey meaning
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, Representation - ANS To understand a letter or word
Directionality - ANS Ability to track print. Left -> or Right Top -> Bottom
Book Handling Skills - ANS knowing how to handle a book and how books "work" (i.e., front
and back cover, left to right sweep)
The Shared Book Experience - ANS Teachers use big books. includes introduction (prereading)
ask predictive questions. read story with dramatic punch and point to text (tracking of print).
Have discussion, reread on subsequent days with the whole group
Letter Recognition - ANS ability to identify a grapheme by its name
Letter Naming - ANS The ability to say the name of a letter when the teacher points to it.
Letter Formation - ANS ability to write the lower and uppercase letters legibly. teaching
names of letters, not sounds.
Alphabetic Principle - ANS an understanding that letters and letter patterns represent the
sounds of spoken words.
Phonics - ANS the study of the sounds of the letters of the alphabet
Word Identification - ANS Ability to read aloud, or decode, words correctly.
Word Recognition - ANS the process of identifying a unique pattern of letters
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