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RICA STUDY QUESTIONS
Domains 1-5
Competencies 1-15
Competency 1:
Basic fundamental principles for planning, organizing, and managing a research and standards based reading program
Components of effective reading instruction delivery
Benchmark Students
Strategic ELA Students
Intensive ELA Students
Different levels of comprehension
Different levels of comprehension
Strategies for engaging and motivating students in reading
Support systems to promote skilled teaching of reading
Independent Reading Level
Instructional Reading Level
Frustration Reading Level
Phonological Awareness
Phonemic Awareness
Phonics
The Alphabetic Principle
Phoneme
Graphemes
Phonograms
Role of phonological and phonemic awareness in reading development
Meeting needs of
struggling learners or
students with disabilities
Differentiating for
advanced learners
Morphology
Word Identification
Strategies
Inflected Morphological
Unit
Whole-to-Part lessons (analytic phonics):
Part-to-Whole lessons (synthetic phonics):
Four categories of word identification
What are some ways of helping STRUGGLING READERS acquire phonics, sight word and spelling help.
Morpheme
Bound morphemes
Free morpheme
Syllables
Give some examples of systematic, explicit instruction is needed to promote fluency development.
Fluency is essential for comprehension because of AUTOMATICITY THEORY. What is this theory?
What are some factors that disrupt fluency?
What are some indicators for Fluency?
Give examples of instructional strategies to improve fluency
Give examples of interventions to help improve fluency
What is Reading Vocabulary (MEANING VOCAB)?
What is academic Language- textbook language?
What is background knowledge and why is it important for reading development?
What are the 3 levels of learning vocabulary?
How are Semantic Maps useful?
What is a Morpheme?
What is Contextual Analysis?
What are 4 ways teachers can help meet the needs of struggling readers in learning vocabulary?
What are the three types of reading comprehension?
What is a strategic read-aloud?
What are two types of text-based discussions?
What is a complex sentence?
What is “Activating Background Knowledge”?
What does “KWL” stand for?
What does “PreP” stand for?
Metacognitive:
What are four types of postreading tasks teachers can use to help students with their comprehension?
What is a Narrative Text?
What is an Expository Text?
What literary elements form a “Story Grammar”?
What is a genre?
What tools can students use to be successful in literary analysis?
What is Literary Criticism?
What is the standard pattern of an expository text?
What is an “interlocking” or “three level” study guide?
What is the difference between skimming and scanning?
What is a good way to help students organize information in an expository text?
How can a teacher help struggling students?
