RICA EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% CORRECT

RICA EXAM QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 100% CORRECT 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 Page 2 of 16 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 Page 3 of 16 Retelling - Answer After a child reads a story, they retell the story Web Diagram - Answer Help students learn to categorize and organize their thinking about a topic Graphemes - Answer English letter or letters that represent phonemes Vowells - Answer Sounds made when the air leaving lungs is vibrated in voice box, and clear passage from voice box to mouth Consonants - Answer Sounds that occur when the airflow is obstructed by mouth, teeth or lips Onset - Answer Think syllable! The initial consonant sound or blend (first) Rime - Answer Think syllable! The vowell sound and any consonant sounds that follow (second) Phonogram - Answer Rimes that have the same spelling, also known as word families: cat, baat, sat Morphology - Answer Study of word formation Three Reading Assessments - Answer Entry level (pre), Monitoring Progress (during), Summative Assessments (end) Alternative Assessments (IEP) - Answer More time, smaller units, change mode of delivery, practice assessment, simpler version Page 4 of 16 Standard Assessment Quality Indicators - Answer Reliability, validity Reliability of Assessment - Answer Reliable results, consistent scores Validity of Assessment - Answer Valid if it measures what it claims to measure Percentile Scores - Answer Norm-referenced, average score 50%