SUBTEST 1 RICA EXAM STUDY GUIDE LATEST 2026 UPDATED
QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED 100% SOLUTIONS (2026/2027)
GRADE: A+|STATUS: GUARANTEED PASS
Graded Reading Passages
most important part of IRI. K-8th grade. students read aloud and measure miscue analysis,
graphophonemic errors, semantic errors, syntactic errors.
Miscue Analysis
A strategy for categorizing and analyzing a student's oral reading errors.
Graphophonemic Error
an error related to the sound-symbol relationships for English. e.g. "reading feather for father"
Tells teacher that child is relying too much on phonics to read words or reading a passage too
difficult for them.
Semantic errors
meaning-related error. understands what is being read, but needs phonics skills to not make
errors. "reading dad for father"
syntatic error
error is made in the same part of speech as the correct word. Example: reading into for through.
If student makes an error, that means student needs to pay more attention to phonics.
Informal Reading Inventory (IRI)
is a collection of assessments administered individually to students. Determines reading level.
Types of IRI
Word Recognition Lists
Graded Reading Passages
Reading Interest Survey
Assessments measuring concepts about print
Phonemic Awareness
Assessments on Reading Fluency
Structural Analysis
Vocabulary Assessment
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, word recognition list
10 words for each list; determines reading level, info. on sight vocabulary, and info. about
students' ability to use phonics to decode words.
How to define frustration, instructional, and independent reading levels
after reading aloud, he or she is then asked to answer comprehenson questions for the passage.
Teacher reads the questions and child responds orally.
Retelling
the form of measuring comprehension with having a child list characters, places, and events in
the passage in their own words.
Independent reading level
the highest grade-level passage for which the student reads aloud 95% or more of words
correctly and answers 90% or more of the comprehension questions correctly
Instructural Reading Level
highest passage that student reads aloud 90% or more of the words correctly and answersat
least 60% of the comprehension questions correctly.
Frustration Reading Level
Passages cannot be read and understood by the child.; child cannot read at least 90% of the
words or correctly answer at least 60% of the comprehension questions.
Phonological Awareness
Knowledge that oral English is composed of smaller units
A child who has phonological awareness can identify and manipulate sounds in many
different levels of language
1. Individual sounds (phonemic awareness)
2. Sounds in larger units of language, such as words and syllables.
Phonemic Awareness
the ability to distinguish the separate phonemes (or sounds) in a spoken word.
Phonics
knowledge of letter-sound correspondances: phonics
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QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED 100% SOLUTIONS (2026/2027)
GRADE: A+|STATUS: GUARANTEED PASS
Graded Reading Passages
most important part of IRI. K-8th grade. students read aloud and measure miscue analysis,
graphophonemic errors, semantic errors, syntactic errors.
Miscue Analysis
A strategy for categorizing and analyzing a student's oral reading errors.
Graphophonemic Error
an error related to the sound-symbol relationships for English. e.g. "reading feather for father"
Tells teacher that child is relying too much on phonics to read words or reading a passage too
difficult for them.
Semantic errors
meaning-related error. understands what is being read, but needs phonics skills to not make
errors. "reading dad for father"
syntatic error
error is made in the same part of speech as the correct word. Example: reading into for through.
If student makes an error, that means student needs to pay more attention to phonics.
Informal Reading Inventory (IRI)
is a collection of assessments administered individually to students. Determines reading level.
Types of IRI
Word Recognition Lists
Graded Reading Passages
Reading Interest Survey
Assessments measuring concepts about print
Phonemic Awareness
Assessments on Reading Fluency
Structural Analysis
Vocabulary Assessment
1|Page
, word recognition list
10 words for each list; determines reading level, info. on sight vocabulary, and info. about
students' ability to use phonics to decode words.
How to define frustration, instructional, and independent reading levels
after reading aloud, he or she is then asked to answer comprehenson questions for the passage.
Teacher reads the questions and child responds orally.
Retelling
the form of measuring comprehension with having a child list characters, places, and events in
the passage in their own words.
Independent reading level
the highest grade-level passage for which the student reads aloud 95% or more of words
correctly and answers 90% or more of the comprehension questions correctly
Instructural Reading Level
highest passage that student reads aloud 90% or more of the words correctly and answersat
least 60% of the comprehension questions correctly.
Frustration Reading Level
Passages cannot be read and understood by the child.; child cannot read at least 90% of the
words or correctly answer at least 60% of the comprehension questions.
Phonological Awareness
Knowledge that oral English is composed of smaller units
A child who has phonological awareness can identify and manipulate sounds in many
different levels of language
1. Individual sounds (phonemic awareness)
2. Sounds in larger units of language, such as words and syllables.
Phonemic Awareness
the ability to distinguish the separate phonemes (or sounds) in a spoken word.
Phonics
knowledge of letter-sound correspondances: phonics
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