Rica Subtest 2 Exam Questions And Answers (Graded A)

RICA Subtest 2 Exam Questions and Answers (Graded A) Word Consciousness - ANSWER-Awareness of words and their meanings as well as interest in their usage.Conversational vocabulary (Tier 1) - ANSWER-Informal language: most basic, everydayspeech that is familiar to studentsAcademic Vocabulary (Tier 2) - ANSWER-Formal language: high frequency words that are found in many different subject discipline (Ex. examine, identify, authority)Content Specific Vocabulary (Tier 3) - ANSWER-Subject specific vocabulary: found in science, math, social studies (ex. hypothesis, photosynthesis)Systematic Explicit Instruction - ANSWER-High structure and sequenced instruction Needs to be very interactiveMatthew Effect - ANSWER-"Rich get richer and the poor get poorer" The gap between strong and weak readers will only widen when no one is catching any literacy difficulties and students are not receiving proper instruction3 types of vocabulary practice - ANSWER-deliberate, spaced, and retrieval- goes well with "I do, we do, you do", modeling and instructionWide reading - ANSWER-Reading a wide variety of genres, styles, and purposesWill expose students to more reading and will help them learn more vocabularyCognates - ANSWER-Words that look similar and have the same meaning in two languages. (good to connect with for ELs)Semantics - ANSWER-Meanings of words, phrases, and sentencesMorphology - ANSWER-The structure and form