RICA SUBTEST 3 EXAM QUESTIONS
AND ANSWERS - 2025 EDITION
Components of effective instruction delivery: - Answer-Orientation, Presentation,
Guided Practice, Independent study and Application (Contents of SJSU lesson plan
temp.)
Orientation - Answer-First phase
- Teacher can provide an overview of what will happen in the lesson (Stating your
objective)
- T will motivate or engage students (hook)
Presentation - Answer-Second Phase
- Teacher teaches with explicit and systematic instruction
- involves your modeling
- Teacher could show pictures or videos for students
Guided Practice - Answer-Third Phase
- Students complete task under teacher supervision
- Teacher can reinforce whats been learned, ask questions to prompt student
reasoning, and provide feedback/suggetsions
Independent work and Application - Answer-Final Phase
- Students now can practice on their own
Engaging and Motivating Students:
Stimulating Learning Environment - Answer-Teacher uses positive reinforcement,
praise, upbeat reading, and no put downs!
Engaging and Motivating Students:
Appropriate Reading materials - Answer-Students read at their reading level, Silent and
independent reading at their level, and direct instruction and a challenging but readable
level
Engaging and Motivating Students:
Read alouds! - Answer-read with enthusiasm, energy, to model ideal fluency
Engaging and Motivating Students:
Book clubs, literature circles, and author studies - Answer-Book club: Teacher choses
the book for small groups to then discuss with roles and questions to help facilitate
Literature circles: small group discussion based where groups of students can chose
the book they want to read
, Author studies: discussions focus on the author, the books read are all done by the
same author
The potential advantages of Independent Reading - Answer-1. provides greater
familiarity with language patterns
2. increases reading fluency
3. increases vocabulary
4. Broadens knowledge on context areas
5. motivates further reading
How to help students pick a book - Answer-The 5 finger rule!!
Students flip to a page in the book and read it. If the reader makes more than 5 errors
(counted on fingers) then the text is too hard
1+1 Strategy - Answer-- reading level + student interest = independent reading
motivation
Monitoring Student Reading - Answer-- reading logs
- book reports
- formal and informal oral presentations
- individual conferences
Summative assessment - Answer-Measures the achievement of a single/target
standard that is given (usually) quarterly, midyear, end of the year with many standards
tested during
Alternative Assessment for Students w/ IEPs/504 - Answer-- give students more time to
complete
- divide assessment into smaller, more manageable chunks
- change the mode of delivery (Ex. written to oral, or individually taken to working 1v1
with the teacher)
- provide a practice assessment prior to real assessment
Standardized tests must have: - Answer-1. reliability: if results yield consistent scores
across administrations
2. Validity: if test measures what it claims to measure
(both have sampling group score and individual raw scores)
Types of scores - Answer-percentile score, grade equivalent scores, and stanine scores
all norm-referenced scores
percentile scores rank students from - Answer-highest - lowest
grade equivalent score - Answer-used to describe student's performance in comparison
to the performance of an average student at a specified grade level
AND ANSWERS - 2025 EDITION
Components of effective instruction delivery: - Answer-Orientation, Presentation,
Guided Practice, Independent study and Application (Contents of SJSU lesson plan
temp.)
Orientation - Answer-First phase
- Teacher can provide an overview of what will happen in the lesson (Stating your
objective)
- T will motivate or engage students (hook)
Presentation - Answer-Second Phase
- Teacher teaches with explicit and systematic instruction
- involves your modeling
- Teacher could show pictures or videos for students
Guided Practice - Answer-Third Phase
- Students complete task under teacher supervision
- Teacher can reinforce whats been learned, ask questions to prompt student
reasoning, and provide feedback/suggetsions
Independent work and Application - Answer-Final Phase
- Students now can practice on their own
Engaging and Motivating Students:
Stimulating Learning Environment - Answer-Teacher uses positive reinforcement,
praise, upbeat reading, and no put downs!
Engaging and Motivating Students:
Appropriate Reading materials - Answer-Students read at their reading level, Silent and
independent reading at their level, and direct instruction and a challenging but readable
level
Engaging and Motivating Students:
Read alouds! - Answer-read with enthusiasm, energy, to model ideal fluency
Engaging and Motivating Students:
Book clubs, literature circles, and author studies - Answer-Book club: Teacher choses
the book for small groups to then discuss with roles and questions to help facilitate
Literature circles: small group discussion based where groups of students can chose
the book they want to read
, Author studies: discussions focus on the author, the books read are all done by the
same author
The potential advantages of Independent Reading - Answer-1. provides greater
familiarity with language patterns
2. increases reading fluency
3. increases vocabulary
4. Broadens knowledge on context areas
5. motivates further reading
How to help students pick a book - Answer-The 5 finger rule!!
Students flip to a page in the book and read it. If the reader makes more than 5 errors
(counted on fingers) then the text is too hard
1+1 Strategy - Answer-- reading level + student interest = independent reading
motivation
Monitoring Student Reading - Answer-- reading logs
- book reports
- formal and informal oral presentations
- individual conferences
Summative assessment - Answer-Measures the achievement of a single/target
standard that is given (usually) quarterly, midyear, end of the year with many standards
tested during
Alternative Assessment for Students w/ IEPs/504 - Answer-- give students more time to
complete
- divide assessment into smaller, more manageable chunks
- change the mode of delivery (Ex. written to oral, or individually taken to working 1v1
with the teacher)
- provide a practice assessment prior to real assessment
Standardized tests must have: - Answer-1. reliability: if results yield consistent scores
across administrations
2. Validity: if test measures what it claims to measure
(both have sampling group score and individual raw scores)
Types of scores - Answer-percentile score, grade equivalent scores, and stanine scores
all norm-referenced scores
percentile scores rank students from - Answer-highest - lowest
grade equivalent score - Answer-used to describe student's performance in comparison
to the performance of an average student at a specified grade level
