RICA Subtest 1 Practice Questions And

RICA Subtest 1 Practice Questions And Answers

The primary formats for phonemic awareness are:

• oral blending and segmentation.
• identifying spelling patterns and vowels.
• sequencing and classifying.
• orthography and word analysis. ✔️Ans - A. oral blending and

segmentation.

A kindergarten teacher implements the following lesson:

Teacher: What are the sounds in the word "sit"?Student: /s/ /i/ /t/Teacher: Good. The new word is "pit". What sound changed "sit" to "pit"?Student: /p/

The phonemic awareness lesson above is an example of:

• substituting a medial vowel.
• substituting an initial consonant sound.
• syllable blending.
• phoneme counting. ✔️Ans - B. substituting an initial consonant sound.

As an additional support to her five students struggling with the phonemic awareness lesson during whole group instruction, a kindergarten teacher uses Elkonin boxes with colored tiles. As the teacher says a word, the student moves a tile in a box for each sound they hear in the target word. The teacher calls on each student to tell her the sounds they hear in the word while touching the colored tiles. This strategy should enhance understanding of

identifying sounds because:

• it uses an auditory technique that allows the student to hear the sounds

louder during instruction.

• it uses a pre-teaching technique that prepares the student to identify

sounds orally.

• it enhances the lesson by making it more fun for students, using colors and

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• it uses a kinesthetic technique that allows the student to use a hands-on

approach for identifying sounds in a word. ✔️Ans - D. it uses a kinesthetic technique that allows the student to use a hands-on approach for identifying sounds in a word.

An example of a phonemic awareness assessment is:

• medial phoneme substitution.
• word sort.
• matching prefixes and their meanings.
• matching uppercase and lowercase letters, using word cards. ✔️Ans - A.

medial phoneme substitution.During the first week of school, a kindergarten teacher assesses each student

by asking a series of questions after handing them a book:

Where is the front cover of the book?Use your finger to show me where I will begin reading on this page.Use your finger to show me the direction I need to read.Point to the title of the book.Show me how to turn the page.Where is the beginning of the story?Where is the end of the story?The teacher implemented this assessment to determine the students' skills in

the area of:

• phonics.
• concepts about print.
• phonemic awareness.
• alphabetic principle. ✔️Ans - B. concepts about print.

A kindergarten teacher conducts small group instruction with six students that is designed using letter cards. The lesson is introduced in the following

way:

Teacher: In my hand I have a deck of letter cards for the alphabet that have

two letters, plus a line that indicates that a letter is missing. As I flip the cards in the deck, I want you to name the missing letters on each card.a b __ d e __

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