RICA Subtest 3 (Latest Update 2025 / 2026) Guide with Questions & Answers | 100% Correct | Grade A (Verified Answers)
Question:
strategies to promote independent reading
Answer:
- books need to be at an independent reading level
- should fit student's personal interest
- structured independent reading opportunities should be provided
- at home reading
- monitoring independent reading
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Question:
advantages of independent reading
Answer:
- provides familiarity with language patterns
- increases fluency
- increases vocabulary
- broadens knowledge in content area
- motivates further reading
Question:
Goldilocks test (appropriate reading level selection)
Answer:
students select a book that isn't too easy or too hard; its just right
Question:
Goldilocks test - Too Easy
Answer:
- Have you read it lots of times before?
- Do you know/understand the story very well?
- Do you know almost every word?
- Can you read it smoothly?
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Question:
Goldilocks Test - Too Hard
Answer:
- Are there more than 5 words on a page that you don't know?
- Are you confused about what is happening in most of this book?
- When you read, does it sounds choppy?
Question:
Goldilocks Test - Just Right
Answer:
- Is this book new to you?
- Are there just 2-3 words on a page that you don't know?
- Are you able to read some part of the story smooth while the others
choppy?
Question:
Five finger rule
Answer:
a way to find a just-right book; use your fingers to count the words you don't know - student reads one page and places a finger up each time they can't the word. if student has five fingers up before the page is read, the book is too hard.
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Question:
I + I Strategy (appropriate reading level selection)
Answer:
independent reading level + personal interest = best chance of success
Question:
interest inventory (appropriate reading level selection)
Answer:
An assessment of likes and dislikes - used for lesson planning
Question:
Sustained Silent Reading (SSR) (structured independent reading opportunities)
Answer:
structured activity in which children are given fixed time periods for reading self-selected materials silently
Question:
Reader's Workshop (structured independent reading opportunities)
Answer:
students read silently, small groups meet and work on projects, and the teacher meets with groups and individual students - expanded to reading and writing / difficult to do everyday because it is not direct instruction
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