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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
Content Area 1: Conducting Ongoing Assessment of Reading Development
Content Area 2: Planning, Organizing, and Managing Reading Instruction
Content Area 3: Phonemic Awareness
Content Area 4: Concepts about Print
Content Area 5: Systematic, Explicit Phonics and Other Word Identification Strategies
Content Area 6: Spelling Instruction
Content Area 7: Reading Comprehension
Content Area 8: Literary Response and Analysis
Content Area 9: Content-Area Literacy
Content Area 10: Student Independent Reading
Content Area 11: Supporting Reading Through Oral and Written Language Development
Content Area 12: Vocabulary Development
Content Area 13: Structure of the English Language
Sample RICA Examination
Answers to the Sample Examination
Appendices
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Ready for RICA : A Test Preparation Guide for California's Reading Instruction Competence Assessment

Ready for RICA : A Test Preparation Guide for California's Reading Instruction Competence Assessment

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