RICA PRACTICE TEST QUESTIONS AND 100%
CORRECT ANSWERS 2025-2026
Breaking the student's reading assignment down into smaller steps and teaching him
skills to monitor his own attention and progress. Answer A Grade six student is doing
well in most reading areas but is having difficulty completing the assigned reading
selections. Although he appears motivated when he starts reading, he has difficulty
keeping his attention on the task at hand. Which of the following would be his teacher's
best initial strategy for addressing this difficulty?
targeted reading skills are part of an appropriate instructional progression and reflect
students' needs. ANSWER When planning lessons to reinforce targeted reading skills, a
teacher should make sure that:
book recommendation the parents/guardians would enjoy reading to their children.
ANSWER An early elementary teacher could best support reading at home by the
following:
making available in the classroom content-area text at multiple levels that supplement
and reinforce the information presented in students' textbooks. -Answer A sixth grade
teacher wants to make sure the classroom reading environment supports content-area
learning for the English Learners in the class. Which of the following strategies is likely
to be most effective in meeting this goal?
how do these finding relate to the student's performance on other recently administered
reading assessments? - Answer Of the following questions, which would be most
important for a teacher to consider when interpreting the results of a reading
assessment for a particular student?
Check each student's IEP for any testing accommodations that student needs. Then,
Answer A fourth-grade class has two students with Individualized Education Programs
(IEPs). For this question, Classroom entry-level and progress monitoring assessments
are planned for the students. For which of these students will the teacher need to:
, provide this testing accommodation only if it is so indicated in her Section 504 Plan. A
middle school teacher is preparing for the class to take the sixth-grade California
Standards Test (CST) in English-language arts. The teacher believes that a student in
the class with a Section 504 Plan would perform significantly better on the assessment if
she were allowed to have frequent supervised breaks within sections of the test. Which
of the following would you think it most important for the teacher to do in order to ensure
that the arrangements for this student during the test are appropriate?
a description of the student's assessed strengths and weaknesses that could serve as a
foundation for addressing her needs. Answer Beginning of the year, a second grade
teacher leads a student success team to develop supplemental assistance for a student
who is achieving somewhat below grade-level expectations for reading. The team is
comprised of the student and her parents, a colleague who frequently works with the
student, and a school administrator. Of the following, which would be the most
important information for the teacher to share with the success team in development of
an improvement plan for this student?
realize a spoken word is composed of sounds. A kindergarten teacher plays the
following game with students. The teacher says, "Guess whose name I'm going to say
now?" The teacher then says the beginning sound of a student's name such as /m/ for
Mariko, and the children make guesses. This game would be likely to facilitate reading
development of the students primarily because it could help students:
asking the student to identify the sound at the beginning, middle, or end of a spoken
word (e.g., "What sound do you hear at the end of step?) Answers Which of the following
informal assessments would most appropriate to use to assess an individual student's
phonemic awareness?
supporting their phonological awareness. - Response The use of rhyming text for
kindergarten read-alouds is likely to support the reading development of kindergarten
students primarily by:
helping the student become aware of the directionality of each letter as the student
traces the letter. - Response Which of the following approaches would best support a
kindergarten student having difficulty telling the difference between b and d visually?
CORRECT ANSWERS 2025-2026
Breaking the student's reading assignment down into smaller steps and teaching him
skills to monitor his own attention and progress. Answer A Grade six student is doing
well in most reading areas but is having difficulty completing the assigned reading
selections. Although he appears motivated when he starts reading, he has difficulty
keeping his attention on the task at hand. Which of the following would be his teacher's
best initial strategy for addressing this difficulty?
targeted reading skills are part of an appropriate instructional progression and reflect
students' needs. ANSWER When planning lessons to reinforce targeted reading skills, a
teacher should make sure that:
book recommendation the parents/guardians would enjoy reading to their children.
ANSWER An early elementary teacher could best support reading at home by the
following:
making available in the classroom content-area text at multiple levels that supplement
and reinforce the information presented in students' textbooks. -Answer A sixth grade
teacher wants to make sure the classroom reading environment supports content-area
learning for the English Learners in the class. Which of the following strategies is likely
to be most effective in meeting this goal?
how do these finding relate to the student's performance on other recently administered
reading assessments? - Answer Of the following questions, which would be most
important for a teacher to consider when interpreting the results of a reading
assessment for a particular student?
Check each student's IEP for any testing accommodations that student needs. Then,
Answer A fourth-grade class has two students with Individualized Education Programs
(IEPs). For this question, Classroom entry-level and progress monitoring assessments
are planned for the students. For which of these students will the teacher need to:
, provide this testing accommodation only if it is so indicated in her Section 504 Plan. A
middle school teacher is preparing for the class to take the sixth-grade California
Standards Test (CST) in English-language arts. The teacher believes that a student in
the class with a Section 504 Plan would perform significantly better on the assessment if
she were allowed to have frequent supervised breaks within sections of the test. Which
of the following would you think it most important for the teacher to do in order to ensure
that the arrangements for this student during the test are appropriate?
a description of the student's assessed strengths and weaknesses that could serve as a
foundation for addressing her needs. Answer Beginning of the year, a second grade
teacher leads a student success team to develop supplemental assistance for a student
who is achieving somewhat below grade-level expectations for reading. The team is
comprised of the student and her parents, a colleague who frequently works with the
student, and a school administrator. Of the following, which would be the most
important information for the teacher to share with the success team in development of
an improvement plan for this student?
realize a spoken word is composed of sounds. A kindergarten teacher plays the
following game with students. The teacher says, "Guess whose name I'm going to say
now?" The teacher then says the beginning sound of a student's name such as /m/ for
Mariko, and the children make guesses. This game would be likely to facilitate reading
development of the students primarily because it could help students:
asking the student to identify the sound at the beginning, middle, or end of a spoken
word (e.g., "What sound do you hear at the end of step?) Answers Which of the following
informal assessments would most appropriate to use to assess an individual student's
phonemic awareness?
supporting their phonological awareness. - Response The use of rhyming text for
kindergarten read-alouds is likely to support the reading development of kindergarten
students primarily by:
helping the student become aware of the directionality of each letter as the student
traces the letter. - Response Which of the following approaches would best support a
kindergarten student having difficulty telling the difference between b and d visually?
