RICA SUBTEST 1 EXAM QUESTIONS
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Phonological Awareness - ANS Understanding that speech is made up of sounds. A child can
manipulate sounds within words (NO letters)
Phoneme - ANS The smallest unit of sounds
# of Phonemes in the word fox - ANS 4 ( /f/ /o/ /k/ /s/) x= /k/+/s/
Phonemic Awareness - ANS The ability to manipulate and distinguish the phonemes in a
spoken word (NO letters present)
(ex. A student saying that duck has 3 sounds (/d/ /u/ /k/) is being phonemically aware
Grapheme - ANS letters that represent phonemes (Ex. fox has 4 phonemes, but 3 graphemes
f-o-x) (Ex. the /k/ sound (phoneme) in duck is ck, which is the grapheme)
Alphabetic principle - ANS an understanding that letters and letter patterns represent the
sounds of spoken words.
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, What ideas are under the Umbrella Term Phonological awareness? - ANS onset-rime,
syllables, rhyming/alliteration, words in sentences, phonemic awareness
What Ideas are under phonemic awareness ? - ANS SOUND: blending, segmenting, isolating,
adding, deleting, and subtracting
Phonics - ANS Refers to instruction in how letters and sounds correspond to each other and
how sound-letter correspondence can be used to decode and pronounce words in text (LETTERS
present)
Word awareness - ANS knowing that individual words make up a sentence
"A brown cat jumped over the car." has 7 words
syllable awareness - ANS Students clap hands as they say each syllable in a word. Easier if
pronunciation of the syllables is distorted and said slowly/distinctly.
Word Blending - ANS Taking 2 single-syllable words and combining them to make a
compound word (cow and boy = cowboy)
Onset and Rime - ANS In a syllable, the onset is the initial consonant or consonants, and the
rime is the vowel and any consonants that follow it (ex., the word sat: Onset is s- and the rime is
-it. The word flip, onset is fl- and rime is -ip).
Sound isolation: (how to teach Phonemic awareness) - ANS S are given a word and need to
identify the beginning middle and end sounds of the word (ex. Bite: beginning sound: /b/ ,
middle: /i/ , end: /t/
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Phonological Awareness - ANS Understanding that speech is made up of sounds. A child can
manipulate sounds within words (NO letters)
Phoneme - ANS The smallest unit of sounds
# of Phonemes in the word fox - ANS 4 ( /f/ /o/ /k/ /s/) x= /k/+/s/
Phonemic Awareness - ANS The ability to manipulate and distinguish the phonemes in a
spoken word (NO letters present)
(ex. A student saying that duck has 3 sounds (/d/ /u/ /k/) is being phonemically aware
Grapheme - ANS letters that represent phonemes (Ex. fox has 4 phonemes, but 3 graphemes
f-o-x) (Ex. the /k/ sound (phoneme) in duck is ck, which is the grapheme)
Alphabetic principle - ANS an understanding that letters and letter patterns represent the
sounds of spoken words.
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, What ideas are under the Umbrella Term Phonological awareness? - ANS onset-rime,
syllables, rhyming/alliteration, words in sentences, phonemic awareness
What Ideas are under phonemic awareness ? - ANS SOUND: blending, segmenting, isolating,
adding, deleting, and subtracting
Phonics - ANS Refers to instruction in how letters and sounds correspond to each other and
how sound-letter correspondence can be used to decode and pronounce words in text (LETTERS
present)
Word awareness - ANS knowing that individual words make up a sentence
"A brown cat jumped over the car." has 7 words
syllable awareness - ANS Students clap hands as they say each syllable in a word. Easier if
pronunciation of the syllables is distorted and said slowly/distinctly.
Word Blending - ANS Taking 2 single-syllable words and combining them to make a
compound word (cow and boy = cowboy)
Onset and Rime - ANS In a syllable, the onset is the initial consonant or consonants, and the
rime is the vowel and any consonants that follow it (ex., the word sat: Onset is s- and the rime is
-it. The word flip, onset is fl- and rime is -ip).
Sound isolation: (how to teach Phonemic awareness) - ANS S are given a word and need to
identify the beginning middle and end sounds of the word (ex. Bite: beginning sound: /b/ ,
middle: /i/ , end: /t/
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