RICA RICA Reading Comprehension

Question 1

According to the Simple View of Reading, reading comprehension is the product of which two components?

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Decoding and language comprehension

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Phonemic awareness and phonics

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Fluency and vocabulary

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Background knowledge and motivation

Question 2

A student reads a passage accurately and fluently but cannot answer questions about what she read. What is the most likely area of instructional need?

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Language comprehension, including vocabulary, background knowledge, and inferencing skills

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Phonics and decoding, since she cannot process the words

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Fluency, since she is reading too quickly to comprehend

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Phonological awareness, which underlies all reading skills

Question 3

Which comprehension strategy involves students actively predicting what will come next, reading to confirm or disconfirm predictions, and revising their thinking?

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Directed Reading-Thinking Activity (DR-TA)

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Reciprocal Teaching

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Question-Answer Relationship (QAR)

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Text mapping

Question 4

What is the purpose of teaching students to identify text structures such as cause-and-effect, compare-contrast, and problem-solution?

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Understanding text structure helps students anticipate how information is organized, improving their ability to locate, remember, and summarize content

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Text structure knowledge is only needed for writing assignments, not reading comprehension

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Text structures are tested directly on most standardized assessments as isolated skills

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Identifying text structure is a decoding skill that supports word recognition

Question 5

Which instructional approach is Reciprocal Teaching, and what four strategies does it employ?

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A collaborative discussion format in which students take turns leading group application of predicting, questioning, clarifying, and summarizing

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A teacher-led lecture strategy focusing on phonics rules

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An independent reading program where students self-select texts

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A test preparation strategy that focuses solely on main idea identification

Question 6

A student can answer literal 'right there' questions but struggles with inferential questions. What instructional support is most appropriate?

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Explicitly teach inferencing by modeling how to combine text clues with background knowledge to answer questions 'the author and me' and 'on my own'

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Provide only literal-level questions until the student's reading level increases

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Have the student re-read the passage more slowly to find the answers

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Focus solely on improving the student's decoding speed