RICA Test 2025 Questions and
Answers
What is the role of the English Language Arts Content Standards? - ✔✔Standards made
by the state which every child should know and be able to do at each grade level.
What is the role of the CA Reading/ Language Arts Framework? - ✔✔The Framework
provides guidelines on WHAT should be taught at each grade level and HOW to assess
and teach the content.
What is differentiated instruction? - ✔✔is an instructional theory that allows teachers to
face this challenge by taking diverse student factors into account when planning and
delivering instruction. Based on this theory, teachers can structure learning
environments that address the variety of learningstyles, interests, and abilities found
within a classroom.
Why is it important to use differentiated instruction? - ✔✔You are meeting all learning
needs for every student.
What is the I+I strategy? How does it help reluctant readers? - ✔✔it is the independent
reading level + personal interests
students are able to read books at their level and their preferences
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,How can you assess students independent reading? - ✔✔using word recognition lists
and graded reading passages, teacher is using a running record and conducting a
miscue analysis after
What is the purpose of entry level assessments, progress monitoring assessment, and
summative assessments? - ✔✔Entry level assessments are done prior to instruction
determines prerequisite skill and knowledge, skills that the student has mastered and
what skill needs help
Progress monitoring is done during instruction using teacher's observations and data to
reteach or accelerate instruction
Summative assessments determine at the end who has achieved the target standard
How do you differentiate assessment for students with an IEP or Section 504 Plan? -
✔✔1. Break assessment into smaller units
2. Provide student with practice assessment
What is the purpose of an IRI? Informal Reading Inventories? - ✔✔1. To get a rough
estimate of where to start with a graded reading passage
2. The students sight word vocabulary
3. Phonics, how student decodes words & sound/ symbol relationships
What is an IRI? How is it administered? - ✔✔Informal Reading Inventory and it is
administered to students individually. You use the Word Recognition List to check off
the words they know, hesitate or read incorrectly
Why do we use graded reading passages? - ✔✔Where the student reads aloud a
passage.
The teacher is following along and using a running record (action) to write error and
patterns.
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, The teacher then examines the running record and identify/ classify the errors (miscue
analysis).
Three common oral reading errors made on a running record? - ✔✔1. Graphophonemic
Errors - sound and symbol error (student reads word by word and depends too much
on phonics to decode or reading passage is too hard)
2. Semantic Errors- relies too much on cueing system not enough graphophonemic clues
3. Syntactic Errors- the word order is incorrect, needs to pay more attention to phonics
How do you determine students frustration, instructional, and independent reading
levels? - ✔✔You give IRI's
Word Recognition Lists and Graded Reading Passages
What is the purpose of standard based individual profiles and group profiles? - ✔✔
What is Phonological Awareness? - ✔✔Oral English composed of smaller units.
Students can identify and manipulate sounds (individual sounds or sounds in larger
units Ex. words or syllables)
What is Phonemic Awareness? - ✔✔It is a subcategory of Phonological Awareness. it
involves the ability to distinguish the separate phonemes (sounds) in a spoken word.
For example a child can identify that duck and luck are rhyming words or that duck has
3 sounds (d/u/k).
What is Phonics? - ✔✔Letter/sound correspondence
What is a phoneme? - ✔✔smallest unit of speech (sound)
What is onset and rime? - ✔✔onset is the initial consonant sound or consonant blend
rime is the vowel sound and consonant after
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Answers
What is the role of the English Language Arts Content Standards? - ✔✔Standards made
by the state which every child should know and be able to do at each grade level.
What is the role of the CA Reading/ Language Arts Framework? - ✔✔The Framework
provides guidelines on WHAT should be taught at each grade level and HOW to assess
and teach the content.
What is differentiated instruction? - ✔✔is an instructional theory that allows teachers to
face this challenge by taking diverse student factors into account when planning and
delivering instruction. Based on this theory, teachers can structure learning
environments that address the variety of learningstyles, interests, and abilities found
within a classroom.
Why is it important to use differentiated instruction? - ✔✔You are meeting all learning
needs for every student.
What is the I+I strategy? How does it help reluctant readers? - ✔✔it is the independent
reading level + personal interests
students are able to read books at their level and their preferences
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,How can you assess students independent reading? - ✔✔using word recognition lists
and graded reading passages, teacher is using a running record and conducting a
miscue analysis after
What is the purpose of entry level assessments, progress monitoring assessment, and
summative assessments? - ✔✔Entry level assessments are done prior to instruction
determines prerequisite skill and knowledge, skills that the student has mastered and
what skill needs help
Progress monitoring is done during instruction using teacher's observations and data to
reteach or accelerate instruction
Summative assessments determine at the end who has achieved the target standard
How do you differentiate assessment for students with an IEP or Section 504 Plan? -
✔✔1. Break assessment into smaller units
2. Provide student with practice assessment
What is the purpose of an IRI? Informal Reading Inventories? - ✔✔1. To get a rough
estimate of where to start with a graded reading passage
2. The students sight word vocabulary
3. Phonics, how student decodes words & sound/ symbol relationships
What is an IRI? How is it administered? - ✔✔Informal Reading Inventory and it is
administered to students individually. You use the Word Recognition List to check off
the words they know, hesitate or read incorrectly
Why do we use graded reading passages? - ✔✔Where the student reads aloud a
passage.
The teacher is following along and using a running record (action) to write error and
patterns.
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, The teacher then examines the running record and identify/ classify the errors (miscue
analysis).
Three common oral reading errors made on a running record? - ✔✔1. Graphophonemic
Errors - sound and symbol error (student reads word by word and depends too much
on phonics to decode or reading passage is too hard)
2. Semantic Errors- relies too much on cueing system not enough graphophonemic clues
3. Syntactic Errors- the word order is incorrect, needs to pay more attention to phonics
How do you determine students frustration, instructional, and independent reading
levels? - ✔✔You give IRI's
Word Recognition Lists and Graded Reading Passages
What is the purpose of standard based individual profiles and group profiles? - ✔✔
What is Phonological Awareness? - ✔✔Oral English composed of smaller units.
Students can identify and manipulate sounds (individual sounds or sounds in larger
units Ex. words or syllables)
What is Phonemic Awareness? - ✔✔It is a subcategory of Phonological Awareness. it
involves the ability to distinguish the separate phonemes (sounds) in a spoken word.
For example a child can identify that duck and luck are rhyming words or that duck has
3 sounds (d/u/k).
What is Phonics? - ✔✔Letter/sound correspondence
What is a phoneme? - ✔✔smallest unit of speech (sound)
What is onset and rime? - ✔✔onset is the initial consonant sound or consonant blend
rime is the vowel sound and consonant after
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