RICA Phonological and Phonemic Awareness 3

Question 1

When assessing phonological awareness in English Learners, a RICA-prepared teacher should keep in mind that:

Accepted Answer

Phonological awareness skills transfer across languages, so a student's L1 skills provide relevant information

Answer

Research shows that phonological awareness skills transfer across languages, so assessing a student's L1 phonological awareness provides useful diagnostic information for planning English instruction.

Question 2

Onset-rime blending involves which of the following?

Accepted Answer

Combining the initial consonant(s) of a syllable with the vowel and remaining consonants

Answer

Onset-rime blending involves combining the onset (initial consonant or consonant cluster) with the rime (the vowel and any following consonants in the syllable), such as blending /bl/ + /ack/ to say 'black'.

Question 3

Which assessment tool is most appropriate for measuring a kindergartener's phoneme segmentation ability?

Accepted Answer

Having the student tap or count each sound in spoken words

Answer

Having students tap, push tokens, or count each sound in spoken words is a direct, valid oral assessment of phoneme segmentation that does not require print.

Question 4

Research indicates that phonemic awareness instruction is most effective when:

Accepted Answer

It focuses on one or two phoneme manipulation tasks at a time and is connected to letters

Answer

The National Reading Panel found that phonemic awareness instruction is most effective when it concentrates on one or two types of phoneme manipulation and explicitly connects sound work to letters.

Question 5

A student who can recognize that 'cat,' 'can,' and 'cup' all begin with the same sound is demonstrating which skill?

Accepted Answer

Phoneme categorization

Answer

Phoneme categorization requires students to identify words that share the same sound in a particular position, such as recognizing that cat, can, and cup all begin with /k/.

RICA - Reading Instruction Competence Assessment Practice Test

RICA - Reading Instruction Competence Assessment Practice Test

RICA Phonological and Phonemic Awareness 3