RICA subtest 1 Practice Questions with 100% Correct Answers

The primary formats for phonemic awareness are: A. oral blending and segmentation. B. identifying spelling patterns and vowels. C. sequencing and classifying. D. orthography and word analysis. Correct Answer A. oral blending and segmentation. A kindergarten teacher implements the following lesson: Teacher: What are the sounds in the word "sit"?Student: /s/ /i/ /t/Teacher: Good. The new word is "pit". What sound changed "sit" to "pit"?Student: /p/ The phonemic awareness lesson above is an example of: A. substituting a medial vowel. B. substituting an initial consonant sound. C. syllable blending. D. phoneme counting. Correct Answer B. substituting an initial consonant sound. As an additional support to her five students struggling with the phonemic awareness lesson during whole group instruction, a kindergarten teacher uses Elkonin boxes with colored tiles. As the teacher says a word, the student moves a tile in a box for each sound they hear in the target word. The teacher calls on each student to tell her the sounds they hear in the word while touching the colored tiles. This strategy should enhance understanding of identifying sounds because: A. it uses an auditory technique that allows the student to hear the sounds louder during instruction. B. it uses a pre-teaching technique that prepares the student to identify sounds orally. C. it enhances the lesson by making it more fun for students, using colors and grids. D. it uses a kinesthetic technique that allows the student to use a hands-on approach for identifying sounds in a word. Correct Answer D. it uses a kinesthetic technique that allows the student to use a hands-on approach for identifying sounds in a word. An example of a phonemic awareness assessment is: A. medial phoneme substitution. B. word sort. C. matching prefixes and their meanings. D. matching uppercase and lowercase letters, using word cards. Correct Answer A. medial phoneme substitution.