Ready for RICA : A Test Preparation Guide for California's Reading Instruction Competence Assessment

by Zarrillo, James

• ISBN13: 9780131173606
• ISBN10: 013117360X
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-01-01
• Publisher: Prentice Hall

Summary

This book offers prospective teachers all of the information they need in order to pass the written version of California's Reading Instruction Competence Assessment (RICA) examination.This book offers a comprehensive review of all thirteen of the content areas that the RICA tests along with a sample test, with answers for practice. The introduction includes an overview of the test, plus tips and clues for pre-test study, pointers for how to structure essay answers, hints for how to "think like the test preparers," and more.For prospective educators working to pass California's Reading Instruction Competence Assessment (RICA) examination.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Test and Test-Taking Strategies

Content Area 1: Conducting Ongoing Assessment of Reading Development

Content Area 2: Planning, Organizing, and Managing Reading Instruction

Content Area 3: Phonemic Awareness

Content Area 4: Concepts about Print

Content Area 5: Systematic, Explicit Phonics and Other Word Identification Strategies

Content Area 6: Spelling Instruction

Content Area 7: Reading Comprehension

Content Area 8: Literary Response and Analysis

Content Area 9: Content-Area Literacy

Content Area 10: Student Independent Reading

Content Area 11: Supporting Reading Through Oral and Written Language Development

Content Area 12: Vocabulary Development

Content Area 13: Structure of the English Language

Sample RICA Examination

Answers to the Sample Examination

Appendices

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