RICA SUBTEST 3 EXAM PRACTICE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

RICA SUBTEST 3 EXAM PRACTICE QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS What is the goal of standards-based reading instruction? - Answer-Every student will meet the content standards adopted by the California State Board of Education. When developing an improvement plan for a student, a teacher will often reach out to people, such as the principal, student support specialist, and the parents of the student. When organizing a time to meet, which of the following would be most important for the teacher to prepare prior to meeting? - Answer-A report showcasing the student's social and academic strengths and weaknesses. According to RICA Content Specifications, the two aspects that all reading and language arts programs needs to include are: - Answer-Balanced instruction and comprehensive instruction. Which of the following is the most accurate definition for differentiated instruction? - Answer-Meeting the needs of all learners, including making adjusting to meet the needs of individual learners. Effective instructional delivery of content needs to be: - Answer-Direct and explicit How can a teacher best ensure reading practice gets done at home? - Answer-Allow children to take home books from the classroom library. What does it mean if a standardized test has reliability? - Answer-A test has reliability if the results yield consistent scores across administrations. - Answer- Which strategy should a teacher use with a small group of learners who have not yet met the standard of a particular reading skill? - Answer-A teacher can use flexible grouping. How can a teacher create a support system to promote reading for severely struggling readers? - Answer-Facilitate a conference with the student, the student's parents, the reading coach/ learning specialist, and principle to create reading goals. A fourth grade student asked the teacher to help with a passage that he was reading and not understanding. After the teacher went over the paragraph with him, the student was confident that he could continue on his own. This indicates that the text is: - Answer-the student was on the instructional level because he needed the help from the teacher to understand it. (needed teacher assistance) What kind of accommodations should you offer a student with an iep during standardized testing? - Answer-stick to the IEP EL's family and teacher were in a meeting. EL family doesn't speak any English, what advice should the teacher give to the parents about helping the student become a fluent reader? - Answer-parents read children books in their native language/ send home books in their native language A student reads a book independently. After, he answers 10 comprehension questions. He gets 5 correct. What is his reading level? - Answer-Frustration level (answered less than 60% correct) What is an independent reading level? - Answer-A student can read aloud 95% or more of the words correctly and answers 90% or more of the comprehension questions correctly. Instructional reading level question - Answer-A student reads accurately 90% of the words correctly and answers at least 60% of the comprehension questions correctly. Frustration Reading level question - Answer-A student CANNOT correctly read aloud at least 90% of the words and CANNOT answer at least 60% of the comprehension questions. Reading teachers have a conference. What should they discuss? - Answer-discuss and analyze significant reading events that occurred in the classroom. Teacher adds books in her classroom library with a variety of genres and reading levels. What is her next step? - Answer-Organize the books so that students can easily assess books at their independent reading level. This is the answer; question worded differently There is a question with a chart. The chart has scores, and the question asks how many students are reading at the independent level. - Answer-1 student. ( read aloud 95% or more of the words correctly and answers 90% or more of the comprehension questions correctly) Homogeneous reading grouping - - Answer-Students with the same instructional reading level. Heterogeneous reading grouping are... - Answer-different grouping. Groups composed of children with different reading abilities. (heterogeneous is a mixture of levels that are not too far apart in levels of need.) Understand how to interpret the results percentile scores and Grade equivalent scores. Actual question states if a student scores 68% on their reading assessment, then it dictates that: - Answer-The students scored higher than the rest of his classmates/peers The question asked about standardized tests regarding validity? - Answer-Assess what it meant to assess or measure. What grouping should a teacher use for intervention after whole-class instruction - Answer-Homogenous group according to the severity of their needs. Teacher looks at last year's standards before assigning entry-level assessment to students. What should the teacher know before planning instruction of specific skills? It asked stuff like " what would you do FIRST - Answer-What prerequisite skills students possess that would help them gain specific skills? " I said the teacher first needs to know what prerequisite skills they need for reading before she comes up with strategies. 2/11 (remember prerequisite) definitely what prerequisite skills the students need A teacher is helping a student find books at the student's independent reading level at the school library. What strategy should the teacher suggest for the student? - Answer-teach student how to read a few paragraphs of the book (indicates that a book might be too difficult for them if they can't read the excerpt) There was a question that talked about a teacher creating a space for independent readings, what else could the teacher do to get students to read more? - Answer-she can help students to choose independently a book using a 5 finger strategy to make it accessible where they can find their reading levels quickly and easily. Midway through the year, a second-grade teacher convenes a student success team to plan additional support for a student who is performing somewhat below grade-level standards in reading. Other members of the team include the student and her parents, another teacher who works closely with the student, and a school administrator. In the context of developing an improvement plan for the student, which of the following pieces of information would be most important for the teacher to communicate to the success team? - Answer-a description of the student's assessed strengths and weaknesses that could serve as a foundation for addressing her needs.