RICA EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100%
CORRECT 2025-2026
Digraph - A pair of letters that spell one phoneme or distinctive sound ch, ph, ng, qu, sh,
th
Phoneme - The smalled contrastive unit in the sound of language
Precommuniative - The child uses letters of alphabet but demonstrates no knowledge of
letter sound correspondence
Semiphonetic - Answer Writing that shows some awareness that letters represent
speech sounds, beginning and/or ending consonant sounds of syllables are represented
but medial vowells are omitted
Phonetics - Answer A branch of linguistics that comprise the study of sounds
Phonology - Answer Concerned with the given sounds contribution to the language of
the system
Transitional - Answer Beginning to use visual memory, mayk, maik, make
Etymology - The study of the history of words and how their form and meaning have
changed over time
Phonemic Awareness Assessment - Have students identify the sound of the middle,
beginning or end of the word
, Rhyming Texts Benefit (K) - Developing phonological awareness
Difficulty with d and b - Encourage student to pay attention to directionality of each
letter as student traces it
Alphabetic Principle - Answer Words are composed of letters that represent sounds,
using relationship between letters and phenomes of an unknown string of letters or to
spell
Homophones - Answer Words that sound the same but have different meaning
Automaticity - Answer The ability to do things without occupying the mind
Intonations - Answer Variation of pitch while speaking which is not used to distinguish
words
Rythyms - Answer A timing pattern among syllables
Dipthong - Answer 2 letters that make one sound
Syllabication - Answer Forming or dividing words into syllables
Context Clues - Answer Built into sentences with difficult word to help decipher the
difficult word
Cross-Cirricular - Answer Example would be incorporating writing skills into every
subject matter
Structural Analysis - Answer Used for reading complex words in upper grades, a word is
divided into multi-letter parts
CORRECT 2025-2026
Digraph - A pair of letters that spell one phoneme or distinctive sound ch, ph, ng, qu, sh,
th
Phoneme - The smalled contrastive unit in the sound of language
Precommuniative - The child uses letters of alphabet but demonstrates no knowledge of
letter sound correspondence
Semiphonetic - Answer Writing that shows some awareness that letters represent
speech sounds, beginning and/or ending consonant sounds of syllables are represented
but medial vowells are omitted
Phonetics - Answer A branch of linguistics that comprise the study of sounds
Phonology - Answer Concerned with the given sounds contribution to the language of
the system
Transitional - Answer Beginning to use visual memory, mayk, maik, make
Etymology - The study of the history of words and how their form and meaning have
changed over time
Phonemic Awareness Assessment - Have students identify the sound of the middle,
beginning or end of the word
, Rhyming Texts Benefit (K) - Developing phonological awareness
Difficulty with d and b - Encourage student to pay attention to directionality of each
letter as student traces it
Alphabetic Principle - Answer Words are composed of letters that represent sounds,
using relationship between letters and phenomes of an unknown string of letters or to
spell
Homophones - Answer Words that sound the same but have different meaning
Automaticity - Answer The ability to do things without occupying the mind
Intonations - Answer Variation of pitch while speaking which is not used to distinguish
words
Rythyms - Answer A timing pattern among syllables
Dipthong - Answer 2 letters that make one sound
Syllabication - Answer Forming or dividing words into syllables
Context Clues - Answer Built into sentences with difficult word to help decipher the
difficult word
Cross-Cirricular - Answer Example would be incorporating writing skills into every
subject matter
Structural Analysis - Answer Used for reading complex words in upper grades, a word is
divided into multi-letter parts
