Ready for RICA: A Test Preparation Guide for California's Reading Instruction Competence Assessment » (2nd Edition)

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.

Introduction: The Test and Test-Taking Strategies.

1. Content Area l : Conducting Ongoing Assessment of Reading Development.

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

3. Content Area 3: Phonemic Awareness.

4. Content Area 4: Concepts about Print.

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

6. Content Area 6: Spelling Instruction.

7. Content Area 7: Reading Comprehension.

8. Content Area 8: Literary Response and Analysis.

9. Content Area 9: Content-Area Literacy.

10. Content Area 10: Student Independent Reading.

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

12. Content Area 12: Vocabulary Development.

13. Content Area 13: Structure of the English Language.

14. The Case Study.

Sample RICA Examination.

Answers to the Sample Examination.

Appendices.