RICA FINAL TEST QUESTIONS WITH 100% CORRECT ANSWERS

RICA FINAL TEST QUESTIONS WITH 100% CORRECT ANSWERS AMAO - ANSWER- Annual Measurable Achievement Objective; progress towards fluency (one level of growth per year) BCLAD - ANSWER- Bilingual cross-cultural language and academic development CELDT - ANSWER- California English Language Development Test; tests the fluency annually (in the fall) in the 4 domains of language-L, S, R, W. Can only be given by those who are trained CLAD - ANSWER- Cross-cultural language and academic development DELAC - ANSWER- District English learner advisory committee EIA-LEP - ANSWER- Economic impact aid-limited-English proficient EL - ANSWER- English Learner ELD - ANSWER- English language development ELAC - ANSWER- English learner advisory committee; 21 or more ELs must have one; has legal responsibility to make sure school provides ELL FEP - ANSWER- Fluent-English proficient I-FEP - ANSWER- Initial fluent-English proficient; these students score proficient on the first CELDT and are no longer required to take the CELDT LEP - ANSWER- Limited-English proficient L1 - ANSWER- Primary language R-FEP - ANSWER- Redesignated fluent-English proficient; these students are mainstreamed but then two years of support R-30 - ANSWER- Annual Language Census Report (form R30-LC) SDAIE - ANSWER- Specially-designed academic instruction in English; making content comprehensible through progression through ELD standard SEI - ANSWER- Structured English Immersion STS - ANSWER- Standards-Based Test in Spanish open syllable - ANSWER- a syllable that ends in a vowel phoneme (play, blue) syllable - ANSWER- the unit of pronunciation; the English syllable has only one vowel phoneme; there are as many syllables in a word as there are vowel phonemes; there is only one vowel phoneme in a syllable closed syllable - ANSWER- a syllable that ends in a consonant phoneme (/trip/) diacritical mark - ANSWER- a special mark or symbol added to a letter to indicate pronunciation; the breve, a u-shaped symbol placed over a vowel to indicate a short pronunciation, and the macron, a line places over a vowel to indicate a long pronunciation, are two of the most common diacritical marks consonant blend - ANSWER- A combination of two or more adjacent consonant phonemes that are blended together when pronounced, as the /bl/ in /blue/. It is common practice in many teachers' manual and curriculum guides to refer to the consonant letters that represent these phonemes as consonant blends, as the bl in the word blue. Consonant cluster and consonant blend are used interchangeably in this text consonant digraph - ANSWER- a two-letter consonant grapheme that represents a phoneme not represented by the single letters, such as the sh in shoe free morpheme - ANSWER- the smallest unit of meaning that can stand alone; a free morpheme cannot be divided into smaller units and retain its meaning (play) derivational suffix - ANSWER- a unit of meaning added to the end of a word that modifies its meaning and may change its grammatical category; the suffix -able changes a verb (like) to an adjective (likable) schwa - ANSWER- a vowel phoneme in an unaccented syllable that represents a soft "uh" and is indicated by the key symbol ə, which resembles an inverted e. Key words: comm-a, chick-e-n, fam-i-ly, butt-o-n, circ-u-s bound morpheme - ANSWER- a unit of meaning that must be added to another morpheme; a bound morpheme cannot stand on its own; un- and -ing are examples of bound morphemes inflectional suffix - ANSWER- a unit of meaning added to the end of a word that changes its number, affects verb tense, indicates possession, or denotes a comparison (pick, picks, picker, picking) suffix - ANSWER- a bound morpheme placed at the end a word (played) diphthong - ANSWER- a single vowel phoneme resembling a glide from one sound to another; represented by the graphemes oi (noise), oy (toy), ou (found), and ow (now): key symbols are oi and ou, key words are oil and house consonant phoneme - ANSWER- represented by 18 of the consonant letters of the alphabet plus 7 digraphs two like consonants - ANSWER- only one is sounded in a word when they appear together in a word or syllable final consonant - ANSWER- doubled before a suffix (Exceptions: bus is buses); no doubling of the consonant in targeted and benefited; if it ends in silent e, a consonant blend, or consonant digraph, or includes a long vowel phoneme, do not double CVVC pattern - ANSWER- Vowel is long (boat, maid, meet) VC pattern - ANSWER- word ends in one vowel and one consonant, "get" Cloze Assessment - ANSWER- An exercise, test, or assessment consisting of a portion of text with certain words removed , where the participant is asked to replace the missing words Elkonin boxes - ANSWER- a strategy for segmenting sounds in a word that involves drawing a box to represent each sound in a word phonetic spelling - ANSWER- The third stage of developmental spelling children spell words like they sound. The speller perceives and represents all of the phonemes in a word, though spellings may be unconventional. Examples: EGL = eagle; ATE = eighty Explicit phonics instruction - ANSWER- Begins with the instruction of the letters (graphemes) with their associated sounds (phonemes). Next, explicit phonics teaches blending & building, beginning with blending the sounds into syllables and then into words orthographic rule - ANSWER- change from Y in the singular to -ies in the plural. Many of these changes in written English occur according to regular patterns, so that students may be able to guess correctly when they encounter an unfamiliar pattern word structural analysis - ANSWER- involves splitting words into their individual parts; prefix, suffix, and root word to determine meaning