RICA Exam Questions and Answers (RATED A+)

Phoneme - ANSWER-The smallest contrastive unit in the sound of language Precommuniative Stage - ANSWER-The child uses letters from the alphabet but shows no knowledge of letter-sound correspondence Semiphonetic - ANSWER-Writing that demonstrates some awareness that letters represent speech sounds, beginning and/or ending consonant sounds of syllables are represented but medial vowells are omitted Phonetics - ANSWER-A branch of linguistics that comprise the study of sounds Phonology - ANSWER-Concerned with the given sounds contribution to the language of the system Transitional - ANSWER-Beginning to use visual memory, mayk, maik, make Etymology - ANSWER-Is the study of the history of words and how their form and meaning have changed over time Phonemic Awareness Assessment - ANSWER-Have students identify the sound of the middle, beginning, or end of the word Rhyming Texts Benefit (Kindergarten) - ANSWER-Fostering phonological awareness Difficulty with d and b - ANSWER-Help student focus on directionality of each letter as student traces it Alphabetic Principle - ANSWER-Words are composed of letters that represent sounds, using relationship between letters and phenomes of an unknown string of letters or to spell