RICA SUBTEST 2 FINAL EXAM
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
, 1. Lately, when choosing a book to read, a third grader who reads at grade level always
selects books from a series that is written in a very formulaic style that does little to
extend his conceptual or language development. The teacher's best response to this
behavior would be to:
A) avoid interfering with the student's selection of books as long as he finds his choices
enjoyable.
B) provide the student with books with similar themes or on similar topics that are more
challenging for him.
C) point out to the student some of the major limitations of the books he is choosing to
read and ask him not to read those books at school.
D) advise the student that he should choose books that will prepare him for the more
difficult reading he will encounter in fourth grade. - ANSWERB) provide the student with
books with similar themes or on similar topics that are more challenging for him.
2. A second-grade student has limited vocabulary knowledge, which hinders the
student's word recognition and reading comprehension. The student's oral reading is
slow and labored, and the student typically spends the majority of independent reading
time browsing through books, making little effort to read the actual words on the page.
Research has shown that which of the following is most likely to happen if this student
receives no instructional intervention?
A) The student will always be behind average-performing peers but will achieve an
adequate reading level to be academically successful.
B) The student will naturally begin to show more interest and proficiency in reading as
the student matures and will catch up with average-performing peers in third grade.
C) The student will remain approximately at a second-grade reading level and will not
be able to progress beyond this level.
D) The student will begin to - ANSWERD) The student will begin to fall behind peers in
reading development and will continue to fall further behind in later grades as texts
include increasingly difficult vocabulary.
3. Which of the following statements best explains an important limitation of teaching
students to rely on context as their primary strategy for determining the meaning of
unfamiliar words in texts?
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
, 1. Lately, when choosing a book to read, a third grader who reads at grade level always
selects books from a series that is written in a very formulaic style that does little to
extend his conceptual or language development. The teacher's best response to this
behavior would be to:
A) avoid interfering with the student's selection of books as long as he finds his choices
enjoyable.
B) provide the student with books with similar themes or on similar topics that are more
challenging for him.
C) point out to the student some of the major limitations of the books he is choosing to
read and ask him not to read those books at school.
D) advise the student that he should choose books that will prepare him for the more
difficult reading he will encounter in fourth grade. - ANSWERB) provide the student with
books with similar themes or on similar topics that are more challenging for him.
2. A second-grade student has limited vocabulary knowledge, which hinders the
student's word recognition and reading comprehension. The student's oral reading is
slow and labored, and the student typically spends the majority of independent reading
time browsing through books, making little effort to read the actual words on the page.
Research has shown that which of the following is most likely to happen if this student
receives no instructional intervention?
A) The student will always be behind average-performing peers but will achieve an
adequate reading level to be academically successful.
B) The student will naturally begin to show more interest and proficiency in reading as
the student matures and will catch up with average-performing peers in third grade.
C) The student will remain approximately at a second-grade reading level and will not
be able to progress beyond this level.
D) The student will begin to - ANSWERD) The student will begin to fall behind peers in
reading development and will continue to fall further behind in later grades as texts
include increasingly difficult vocabulary.
3. Which of the following statements best explains an important limitation of teaching
students to rely on context as their primary strategy for determining the meaning of
unfamiliar words in texts?
