RICA Test PREP 2025
Questions and Answers
A sixth grader who is advanced in most areas of reading has difficulty completing
assigned reading selections. He appears motivated when he begins reading, but 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? - ✔✔Breaking down the
student's reading assignments into small steps and helping him learn to monitor his
own attention and progress
When creating lesson plans to promote specific reading skills, a teacher should make
sure that: - ✔✔the targeted reading skills relate to an appropriate instructional
progression and reflect students' needs.
An early elementary teacher could most effectively support at-home reading by: -
✔✔recommending books that parents/guardians would likely enjoy reading with their
children.
A sixth-grade teacher wants to ensure that 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 addressing this objective? - ✔✔making
available in the classroom content-area texts at various levels that supplement and
reinforce the information presented in students' textbooks
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,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? - ✔✔How do these findings relate to the student's performance on other
recently administered reading assessments?
A fourth-grade class includes two students with Individualized Education Programs
(IEPs). When planning classroom entry- level and progress-monitoring assessments for
these students, the teacher should: - ✔✔consult each student's IEP to determine any
specific testing accommodations required for that student.
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 guidelines would be most important for the teacher to follow to ensure
that arrangements for this student during the test are appropriate? - ✔✔providing the
student with this testing accommodation only if it is specified in her Section 504 Plan
Midway through the year, a second-grade teacher convenes a student success team to
plan additional support for a student who is performing somewhat below grade-level
standards in reading. Other members of the team include the student and her parents,
another teacher who works closely with the student, and a school administrator. In the
context of developing an improvement plan for the student, which of the following
pieces
of information would be most important for the teacher to communicate to the success
team? - ✔✔a description of the student's assessed strengths and weaknesses that could
serve as a foundation for addressing her needs
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,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 initial sound of a
student's name (e.g., /m/ for Mariko), and the children try to guess the name. This
activity is likely to promote the reading development of students primarily by helping
them: - ✔✔recognize that a spoken word is made up of sounds.
A informal assessments would be most appropriate to use to assess an individual
student's phonemic awareness? - ✔✔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?")
A kindergarten teacher is preparing a student for a phonemic awareness assessment.
What is this a picture of? [The teacher displays a picture of a boat.]
A boat?
A boat, that's right. Now,
let's say the word boat together very slowly: /b/.../ō/.../t/. [The student pronounces
the word with the teacher.]
How many sounds do you hear? /b/.../ō/.../t/ . . . [The teacher slowly repeats the
word.]
Three?
That's right, three. Now, I'd like you to do this for some more words. Which assessment
would be an appropriate way to test the student's ability to perform which of the
following phonemic awareness tasks? - ✔✔recognizing how many phonemes are
contained in a word
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, The use of rhyming texts for kindergarten read-alouds is likely to promote the reading
development of kindergarten students primarily by: - ✔✔fostering their phonological
awareness.
A strategy that would best help a kindergarten student who is having difficulty visually
distinguishing between the letters b and d? - ✔✔helping the student focus on the
directionality of each letter as the student traces it
A first grader can identify the letters of the alphabet and decode a number of simple
words. He becomes confused, however, when tracking print in consecutive lines
of print. Which of the following strategies is likely to be most effective in helping the
student read a short paragraph of simple text? - ✔✔Have him use his finger or a marker
as he reads the text.
Which of the following instructional practices would be most effective in promoting
kindergarten students' understanding of the alphabetic principle? - ✔✔routinely saying
the sounds in words when writing the words on the board
An emergent reader frequently reverses some letters and numbers during writing tasks.
Which of the following strategies would be most effective in helping this student
develop more accurate letter formation skills? - ✔✔having the student practice tracing
the target letter shapes with a finger while saying aloud the sequence of steps to form
each letter
In the word chimpanzee, which of the following pairs of letters is a digraph? - ✔✔ch
A kindergarten student has demonstrated the ability to write words phonetically, but
she is reluctant to write because she is worried about misspelling words. The teacher
could best promote the student's reading and writing development by: - ✔✔reassuring
her that it is okay for now to express herself in writing by spelling words as they sound.
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Questions and Answers
A sixth grader who is advanced in most areas of reading has difficulty completing
assigned reading selections. He appears motivated when he begins reading, but 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? - ✔✔Breaking down the
student's reading assignments into small steps and helping him learn to monitor his
own attention and progress
When creating lesson plans to promote specific reading skills, a teacher should make
sure that: - ✔✔the targeted reading skills relate to an appropriate instructional
progression and reflect students' needs.
An early elementary teacher could most effectively support at-home reading by: -
✔✔recommending books that parents/guardians would likely enjoy reading with their
children.
A sixth-grade teacher wants to ensure that 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 addressing this objective? - ✔✔making
available in the classroom content-area texts at various levels that supplement and
reinforce the information presented in students' textbooks
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,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? - ✔✔How do these findings relate to the student's performance on other
recently administered reading assessments?
A fourth-grade class includes two students with Individualized Education Programs
(IEPs). When planning classroom entry- level and progress-monitoring assessments for
these students, the teacher should: - ✔✔consult each student's IEP to determine any
specific testing accommodations required for that student.
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 guidelines would be most important for the teacher to follow to ensure
that arrangements for this student during the test are appropriate? - ✔✔providing the
student with this testing accommodation only if it is specified in her Section 504 Plan
Midway through the year, a second-grade teacher convenes a student success team to
plan additional support for a student who is performing somewhat below grade-level
standards in reading. Other members of the team include the student and her parents,
another teacher who works closely with the student, and a school administrator. In the
context of developing an improvement plan for the student, which of the following
pieces
of information would be most important for the teacher to communicate to the success
team? - ✔✔a description of the student's assessed strengths and weaknesses that could
serve as a foundation for addressing her needs
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,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 initial sound of a
student's name (e.g., /m/ for Mariko), and the children try to guess the name. This
activity is likely to promote the reading development of students primarily by helping
them: - ✔✔recognize that a spoken word is made up of sounds.
A informal assessments would be most appropriate to use to assess an individual
student's phonemic awareness? - ✔✔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?")
A kindergarten teacher is preparing a student for a phonemic awareness assessment.
What is this a picture of? [The teacher displays a picture of a boat.]
A boat?
A boat, that's right. Now,
let's say the word boat together very slowly: /b/.../ō/.../t/. [The student pronounces
the word with the teacher.]
How many sounds do you hear? /b/.../ō/.../t/ . . . [The teacher slowly repeats the
word.]
Three?
That's right, three. Now, I'd like you to do this for some more words. Which assessment
would be an appropriate way to test the student's ability to perform which of the
following phonemic awareness tasks? - ✔✔recognizing how many phonemes are
contained in a word
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, The use of rhyming texts for kindergarten read-alouds is likely to promote the reading
development of kindergarten students primarily by: - ✔✔fostering their phonological
awareness.
A strategy that would best help a kindergarten student who is having difficulty visually
distinguishing between the letters b and d? - ✔✔helping the student focus on the
directionality of each letter as the student traces it
A first grader can identify the letters of the alphabet and decode a number of simple
words. He becomes confused, however, when tracking print in consecutive lines
of print. Which of the following strategies is likely to be most effective in helping the
student read a short paragraph of simple text? - ✔✔Have him use his finger or a marker
as he reads the text.
Which of the following instructional practices would be most effective in promoting
kindergarten students' understanding of the alphabetic principle? - ✔✔routinely saying
the sounds in words when writing the words on the board
An emergent reader frequently reverses some letters and numbers during writing tasks.
Which of the following strategies would be most effective in helping this student
develop more accurate letter formation skills? - ✔✔having the student practice tracing
the target letter shapes with a finger while saying aloud the sequence of steps to form
each letter
In the word chimpanzee, which of the following pairs of letters is a digraph? - ✔✔ch
A kindergarten student has demonstrated the ability to write words phonetically, but
she is reluctant to write because she is worried about misspelling words. The teacher
could best promote the student's reading and writing development by: - ✔✔reassuring
her that it is okay for now to express herself in writing by spelling words as they sound.
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