RICA Subtest 1 Most Recent exam COMPLETE (2026) EXAM Questions and
Answers (Verified Answers) (Latest Update 2026) UPDATE!!
Phonological Awareness - (ANSWER)Understanding that speech is made up of sounds. A child can
manipulate sounds within words (NO letters)
Phoneme - (ANSWER)The smallest unit of sounds
# of Phonemes in the word fox - (ANSWER)4 ( /f/ /o/ /k/ /s/) x= /k/+/s/
Phonemic Awareness - (ANSWER)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 - (ANSWER)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 - (ANSWER)an understanding that letters and letter patterns represent the sounds
of spoken words.
What ideas are under the Umbrella Term Phonological awareness? - (ANSWER)onset-rime, syllables,
rhyming/alliteration, words in sentences, phonemic awareness
What Ideas are under phonemic awareness ? - (ANSWER)SOUND: blending, segmenting, isolating,
adding, deleting, and subtracting
Phonics - (ANSWER)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 - (ANSWER)knowing that individual words make up a sentence
"A brown cat jumped over the car." has 7 words
, RICA Subtest 1 Most Recent exam COMPLETE (2026) EXAM Questions and
Answers (Verified Answers) (Latest Update 2026) UPDATE!!
syllable awareness - (ANSWER)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 - (ANSWER)Taking 2 single-syllable words and combining them to make a compound
word (cow and boy = cowboy)
Onset and Rime - (ANSWER)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) - (ANSWER)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/
Sound Identity (how to teach Phonemic awareness) - (ANSWER)group of words that share the same
beginning, middle, or end sound but no other shared sounds. (Ex. Light, Leap, Let, all have L at the
beginning)
sound blending (how to teach Phonemic awareness) - (ANSWER)teacher says sounds with only brief
pauses in between each sound and students guess the word. (ex. T says /b/....../a/....../t/..... Students
then say "bat")
sound substitution (how to teach Phonemic awareness) - (ANSWER)Teacher asks child to substitute one
sound for another to create a new word (Ex. T says, "cat, cat, cat" Substitute /k/ sound for /b/, we get,
"bat, bat, bat")
Sound Deletion (how to teach Phonemic awareness) - (ANSWER)the teacher will say a word then
removes a sound and asks the student what the new word is (ex. the word is flag, the teacher removes
the /f/ and asks what the new word is; the student should say lag)
Answers (Verified Answers) (Latest Update 2026) UPDATE!!
Phonological Awareness - (ANSWER)Understanding that speech is made up of sounds. A child can
manipulate sounds within words (NO letters)
Phoneme - (ANSWER)The smallest unit of sounds
# of Phonemes in the word fox - (ANSWER)4 ( /f/ /o/ /k/ /s/) x= /k/+/s/
Phonemic Awareness - (ANSWER)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 - (ANSWER)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 - (ANSWER)an understanding that letters and letter patterns represent the sounds
of spoken words.
What ideas are under the Umbrella Term Phonological awareness? - (ANSWER)onset-rime, syllables,
rhyming/alliteration, words in sentences, phonemic awareness
What Ideas are under phonemic awareness ? - (ANSWER)SOUND: blending, segmenting, isolating,
adding, deleting, and subtracting
Phonics - (ANSWER)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 - (ANSWER)knowing that individual words make up a sentence
"A brown cat jumped over the car." has 7 words
, RICA Subtest 1 Most Recent exam COMPLETE (2026) EXAM Questions and
Answers (Verified Answers) (Latest Update 2026) UPDATE!!
syllable awareness - (ANSWER)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 - (ANSWER)Taking 2 single-syllable words and combining them to make a compound
word (cow and boy = cowboy)
Onset and Rime - (ANSWER)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) - (ANSWER)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/
Sound Identity (how to teach Phonemic awareness) - (ANSWER)group of words that share the same
beginning, middle, or end sound but no other shared sounds. (Ex. Light, Leap, Let, all have L at the
beginning)
sound blending (how to teach Phonemic awareness) - (ANSWER)teacher says sounds with only brief
pauses in between each sound and students guess the word. (ex. T says /b/....../a/....../t/..... Students
then say "bat")
sound substitution (how to teach Phonemic awareness) - (ANSWER)Teacher asks child to substitute one
sound for another to create a new word (Ex. T says, "cat, cat, cat" Substitute /k/ sound for /b/, we get,
"bat, bat, bat")
Sound Deletion (how to teach Phonemic awareness) - (ANSWER)the teacher will say a word then
removes a sound and asks the student what the new word is (ex. the word is flag, the teacher removes
the /f/ and asks what the new word is; the student should say lag)
