RICA Subtest 2 with complete solutions 100%
Sight vocabulary - correct answer Words you can recognize and correctly pronounce
meaning vocabulary -
... [Show More] correct answer words you understand when reading silently.
To comprehend a text, a reader must have adequately developed - correct answer - meaning vocabulary
- academic language knowledge
- background knowledge
Tiers of Academic Vocabulary - correct answer 1) words most children will know without instruction (rain, water)
2) more difficult and appear in several contexts across two or more areas of study (climate, nautical)
3) most difficult as they are only used in one area of study (unicellular, amoeba)
Which of the following statements best explains an important limitation of teaching students to rely on context as their primary strategy for determining the meaning of unfamiliar words in texts? - correct answer (C) Explicit context clues about a word's meaning are not very common in most texts, while implicit contextual clues often require students to apply background knowledge they lack.
A fourth-grade class is beginning a unit on deserts. The teacher starts the unit by having the students form small groups and list everything they know about deserts. Then the whole class meets to share their lists, and the teacher helps the students arrange their ideas into a web. The class's partially completed web is shown below.Creating such a web is likely to promote students' ability to retain and use information they read about a topic by: - correct answer (D) helping students learn to use categories to organize their thinking about the topic
Lately, when choosing a book to read, a third grader who reads at grade level always selects books from a series that is written in a very formulaic style that does little to extend his conceptual or language development. The teacher's best response to this behavior would be to: - correct answer (B) provide the student with books with similar themes or on similar topics that are more challenging for him [Show Less]