RICA Subtest 2 Questions and Answers(SCORED A+)

Conversational vocabulary (Tier 1) - ANSWER-Informal language: most basic, everyday speech that is familiar to students Academic Vocabulary (Tier 2) - ANSWER-Formal language: high frequency words that are found in many different subject discipline (Ex. examine, identify, authority) Content Specific Vocabulary (Tier 3) - ANSWER-Subject specific vocabulary: found in science, math, social studies (ex. hypothesis, photosynthesis) Systematic Explicit Instruction - ANSWER-High structure and sequenced instruction Needs to be very interactive Matthew Effect - ANSWER-"Rich get richer and the poor get poorer" The gap between strong and weak readers will only widen when no one is catching any literacy difficulties and students are not receiving proper instruction 3 types of vocabulary practice - ANSWER-deliberate, spaced, and retrieval - goes well with "I do, we do, you do", modeling and instruction Wide reading - ANSWER-Reading a wide variety of genres, styles, and purposes Will expose students to more reading and will help them learn more vocabulary