RICA SUBTEST 3 LATEST VERSION UPDATED AND
REVISED IN 2025/2026
A kindergarten teacher notices that 2 of his students are having
difficulty with identifying the letters p and q. The best strategy for
helping the students distinguish the 2 letters are: having the
students look for the letters in a big book.
A 1st grade teacher is designing lessons to focus on the alphabetic
principle for small group instruction.
An effective lesson will be:
the teacher segments a CVC word. For each sound in the word he
student places a corresponding letter on the mat. After placing the
letter cards on the mat, the student blends the sounds to say the word.
A kindergarten student writes about his trip over the winter vacation
while working in the writing center during independent work shop.
The entry states:
Iwnt to the mntns and plyd in the sno. it ws fn.
The students writing displays an example of:
phonetic spelling
A kindergarten teacher groups her students in pairs and gives them
each an alphabet card (one has an uppercase letter, the 2nd student
,has the same lowercase letter). She provides each pair with a tic tac
toe, writing the letter they were assigned.
This activity allows the student to receive additional practice to
master the skills related to: letter recognition and letter formation.
kindergarten teacher administers the following assessment for letter
recognition to individual students:
bptv gRed
sHnz
Why is it important that the letters are not placed in alphabetical
order on the assessment?
to ensure the student is able to identify the letters and is not reciting
the alphabet song while saying the letters.
The foundational skills necessary for a student to achieve automatic
word recognition are:
phonemic awareness, phonics instruction, and reading words in
context.
Explicit phonics instruction consists of: sound by sound
decoding
A direct lesson that would support spelling development for a 5th
grade class is:
morphology lessons that focus on affixes and roots, using word webs.
, A first grade student was reading the following sentences from a
decodable text:
Matt liked to sit on a mat with his fat cat. The fat cat looked at the
rat while he sat on Matt's lap. The fat cat ran at the rat. Matt yelled
at his cat, "Get that rat!" By the letter combinations displayed in the
text, it can be determined that the target letter combination during
direct instruction was:
-at
Identify the group of high frequency words with irregular spellings:
they, put was
An important skill to teach English Learners during sight word
instruction is:
meaning of words
Use the chart below to answer the question that follows.
the and is it we of to
you he was a up that
on not
The monitoring assessment above is used to determine the students'
mastery of:
sight words
An example of an orthographic rule is:
REVISED IN 2025/2026
A kindergarten teacher notices that 2 of his students are having
difficulty with identifying the letters p and q. The best strategy for
helping the students distinguish the 2 letters are: having the
students look for the letters in a big book.
A 1st grade teacher is designing lessons to focus on the alphabetic
principle for small group instruction.
An effective lesson will be:
the teacher segments a CVC word. For each sound in the word he
student places a corresponding letter on the mat. After placing the
letter cards on the mat, the student blends the sounds to say the word.
A kindergarten student writes about his trip over the winter vacation
while working in the writing center during independent work shop.
The entry states:
Iwnt to the mntns and plyd in the sno. it ws fn.
The students writing displays an example of:
phonetic spelling
A kindergarten teacher groups her students in pairs and gives them
each an alphabet card (one has an uppercase letter, the 2nd student
,has the same lowercase letter). She provides each pair with a tic tac
toe, writing the letter they were assigned.
This activity allows the student to receive additional practice to
master the skills related to: letter recognition and letter formation.
kindergarten teacher administers the following assessment for letter
recognition to individual students:
bptv gRed
sHnz
Why is it important that the letters are not placed in alphabetical
order on the assessment?
to ensure the student is able to identify the letters and is not reciting
the alphabet song while saying the letters.
The foundational skills necessary for a student to achieve automatic
word recognition are:
phonemic awareness, phonics instruction, and reading words in
context.
Explicit phonics instruction consists of: sound by sound
decoding
A direct lesson that would support spelling development for a 5th
grade class is:
morphology lessons that focus on affixes and roots, using word webs.
, A first grade student was reading the following sentences from a
decodable text:
Matt liked to sit on a mat with his fat cat. The fat cat looked at the
rat while he sat on Matt's lap. The fat cat ran at the rat. Matt yelled
at his cat, "Get that rat!" By the letter combinations displayed in the
text, it can be determined that the target letter combination during
direct instruction was:
-at
Identify the group of high frequency words with irregular spellings:
they, put was
An important skill to teach English Learners during sight word
instruction is:
meaning of words
Use the chart below to answer the question that follows.
the and is it we of to
you he was a up that
on not
The monitoring assessment above is used to determine the students'
mastery of:
sight words
An example of an orthographic rule is:
