RICA English Language Learners and Diverse Learners 2

Question 1

What is the FIRST step a teacher should take when a student with a reading disability is referred for special education services?

Accepted Answer

Ensure the student has received high-quality, evidence-based instruction and document their response to intervention

Answer

Before referral, documentation of quality instruction and intervention response (RTI/MTSS) ensures students are not misidentified due to lack of adequate instruction.

Question 2

A student with dyslexia requires which type of reading instruction according to current research and RICA standards?

Accepted Answer

Structured literacy approaches that are explicit, systematic, sequential, and multisensory

Answer

Structured literacy, which is explicit, systematic, and often multisensory, is the evidence-based approach for students with dyslexia.

Question 3

A student with an IEP receives reading instruction in a general education classroom. The RICA-prepared teacher's role includes:

Accepted Answer

Collaborating with the special education teacher and implementing IEP accommodations and modifications during reading instruction

Answer

General education teachers are responsible for implementing IEP accommodations and collaborating with special education staff to support students in inclusive settings.

Question 4

A teacher notices that a student with strong oral language skills struggles significantly with written language. This pattern is MOST consistent with:

Accepted Answer

A specific learning disability in reading/writing such as dyslexia

Answer

A profile of strong oral language with weak reading/writing is the hallmark pattern of dyslexia — a specific, phonological processing-based reading disability.

Question 5

What is the Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) framework's primary purpose in literacy instruction?

Accepted Answer

To provide increasingly intensive, data-driven levels of instruction and support to all students based on their assessed needs

Answer

MTSS provides a continuum of evidence-based instruction — from universal (Tier 1) to targeted (Tier 2) to intensive (Tier 3) — matched to student need based on ongoing data.

RICA - Reading Instruction Competence Assessment Practice Test

RICA - Reading Instruction Competence Assessment Practice Test

RICA English Language Learners and Diverse Learners 2