RICA subtest 2 Questions and Answers
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An example of a reading comprehension statement written in academic language is: ✔✔I am
going to visualize what is happening in the selection.
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RICA subtest 2 Questions and Answers
with Certified Solutions
An example of a reading comprehension statement written in academic language is: ✔✔I am
going to visualize what is happening in the selection.
Before reading the story, Look Out Kindergarten, Here I Come, the teacher brought in realia
(pencils, scissors, crayons, glue, paper) to support her students with vocabulary that will be
encountered in the story and discussed the characteristics. This vocabulary lesson will allow
students to: ✔✔develop background knowledge to support comprehension of new information.
A vocabulary strategy that supports early vocabulary development for students is: ✔✔classifying
and categorizing words.
The "Matthew Effect", which relates to vocabulary, can be explained as: ✔✔a term used by a
psychologist that describes how readers acquire large vocabularies by reading extensively, which
widens the gap of knowledge between them and the students who read less.
During independent reading of an expository text about dinosaurs, the students in a second-grade
class had difficulty with the vocabulary words "prehistoric ooze". Which of the following is the
best strategy to support students' understanding of the complex vocabulary? ✔✔Before reading,
introduce the meaning of target vocabulary and explain words one at a time using studentfriendly explanations.
According to research, most students learn vocabulary indirectly. An example of indirect
vocabulary learning is: ✔✔students learn word meanings from listening to adults read to them
and engage in conversations about new words encountered in the texts.
In order to determine the vocabulary for direct instruction prior to reading a text, the teacher
needs to consider: ✔✔the tier levels of academic vocabulary encountered in the text.
It is important for a teacher to explicitly teach tier three vocabulary to elementary students for all
of the following reasons except: ✔✔to promote word consciousness and an enthusiasm for
words.
Prior to teaching a lesson on mammals, a third-grade teacher displayed the following graphic
organizer on the board:
This graphic organizer will support the student in developing: ✔✔word learning strategies.
A fifth-grade teacher designs the following vocabulary lesson for her students:
Introduce spelling and pronunciation of target words.
Read a familiar sentence that includes the target word.
Ask students to identify any context clues that can support them in determining the meaning of
the target word.
Ask students to predict meaning and synonyms for target word.
Confirm accurate meaning, using a student-friendly definition.
This lesson is an example of: ✔✔direct instruction of vocabulary
The graphic organizer above is an example of a: ✔✔semantic map.
Use the illustration below to answer the question that follows.
The graphic organizer above will support students in developing vocabulary knowledge relating
to: ✔✔word roots.
A fourth-grade teacher writes the following sentence on the board during a vocabulary lesson:
"The paleontologist, a dinosaur scientist, used a magnifying glass to determine the type of fossil
found during an expedition in the desert."
In order to find the meaning of "paleontologist" using a word-learning strategy, the teacher is
teaching a directed lesson on: ✔✔apposition.
A third-grade teacher implements a long-term vocabulary activity for her students called Word
Wizard. The students will be provided with weekly vocabulary words. If they encounter any of
the words outside of direct instruction, the students have to fill out an index card identifying the
word, how it was used (conversation, television, magazine, etc.) and explain its meaning. The
teacher will place these cards in the Word Wizard's bucket. The student with the most words in
the bucket at the end of the week receives a prize.
The implementation of this vocabulary strategy promotes: ✔✔word consciousness.
In a second-grade class with a student population of 80% English Language Learners, the teacher
implements a communication guide to support her students during academic discussions. An
example is shown below:
Communication Starters:
The antonym for ________is ...
The synonym for _______ is ...
I used context clues to determine...
The use of this oral support will provide students with the opportunity to: ✔✔practice verbal
communication of syntax and grammar.
An effective strategy for a teacher to use during an oral language activity for discussing topicrelated information is: ✔✔think-pair-share.
A teacher follows up with a small group of students after an explicit vocabulary lesson in order
to re-teach new concepts. The lesson was delivered as:
Teacher: A new word we learned today is apprehensive. What is our vocabulary word?
Students: Apprehensive.
Teacher: Apprehensive means that you are not sure of something, or fearful of doing something.
(Teacher shows a facial expression of being apprehensive.)
Teacher: Jerry was apprehensive about jumping from the highest diving board at the swimming
pool.
Teacher: Would you be apprehensive of petting a lion or a kitten?
Student: I would be apprehensive in petting a lion.
The teacher is supporting her struggling readers in understanding the new vocabulary by: ✔✔reteaching vocabulary using concrete examples.
An eighth-grade student completed a reading comprehension assessment that was designed as:
Directions: Fill in the blanks with the appropriate word to complete the sentences.
A knight ordered his servant to hurry up with his food and drink. The servant __1____ scurried
to the kitchen and filled his plate with food. The servant hurried because he did not want to be
_____2___ to his master.
1. A) happily B) solemnly C) obediently2. A) playful B) disrespectful C) hurtful
The format of the reading comprehension assessment can be described as: ✔✔opin sentences.
A second-grade student encounters a vocabulary assessment that displays the question format:
The princess promised to leave the ball before the clock struck midnight.
In which sentence is the word ball used in the same way as in the sentence above:
1) The boy brought a bat and ball for his baseball game.2) My mother hurt the ball of her foot.3)
The couples enjoyed dancing at the ball last week.
This assessment is asking students to identify vocabulary words with: ✔✔multiple meanings.
The most common text structure for narrative stories is: ✔✔story grammar.
An effective assessment for ensuring that students are progressing in text-based discussions is:
✔✔anecdotal notes.
A middle school teacher provides her students with the following graphic organizer to complete
after reading the text:
Life Science
Topic:
Subtopic Subtopic Subtopic
_______ ________ ________
_______ ________ ________
_______ ________ ________
Conclusion:
This graphic organizer will support students with: ✔✔summarizing expository texts
In order to promote independent reading, a sixth-grade teacher organizes her students into groups
of six to form literature circles. Which of the following best describes the format of literature
circles? ✔✔A group of students read the same book and meet together to discuss the book, using
open-ended and high level questions to facilitate discussion.
The strategies that are commonly taught explicitly during reading are: ✔✔visualizing, clarifying,
and self-questioning.
In a first-grade class, the teacher uses a KWL chart to facilitate a discussion of an expository
text. This graphic organizer is used to: ✔✔determine prior knowledge, generate questions, and
summarize information.
A fourth-grade teacher has a small group of students that are struggling readers. In order to
develop their knowledge of comprehension, she should: ✔✔provide visual explanations of the
comprehension strategies and use them with texts that are at their instructional reading lev
A monitoring assessment that can be used to assess students' progress in reading comprehension
is: ✔✔a completed learning log.
The literary genre of fantasy can be described as: ✔✔books that are a type of fiction that contain
elements such as characters or settings that could not exist in real-life. Settings might be magical.
All of the following are examples of figurative language found in literary texts except: ✔✔mood.
A pre-teaching support that can be used by a teacher to assist English Learners in comprehending
narrative texts is to: ✔✔pre-teach content vocabulary.
The following resource is an example of expository material? ✔✔Newspaper article
The signal words and phrases "because", "as a result", "since", and "so" are indicators that an
expository text is organized by: ✔✔cause and effect.
A kinesthetic technique for supporting struggling readers with chronological order is to: ✔✔have
students manipulate index cards that represent events and organize them in the correct sequence.
In order to assess literal comprehension, inferential comprehension and evaluative
comprehension skills, a teacher should format an effective quiz that incorporates: ✔✔QAR
strategies and Bloom's Taxonomy.
A fifth-grade student is taking a reading comprehension assessment and encounters the following
test question:
Which sentence BEST describes what Marvin the Monkey learned in this selection?
1) You cannot please everyone.2) Be careful what you ask for.3) Slow and steady wins the prize.
This question is assessing the student's knowledge of: ✔✔evaluative comprehension.
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