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RICA COMPONENTS |
The RICA test is divided into 5 domains. Each of those domains have a certain number of Competencies. There are a total of 15 competencies.
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Domain 1:
Planning, Organizing, and Managing Reading Instruction Based on Ongoing Assessment COMPETENCY 1: Understand how to plan, organize, and manage standards-based reading instruction.
COMPETENCY 2: Understand the purposes of reading assessment and best practices related to standards-based entry-level assessment, monitoring of student progress, and summative assessment.
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Domain 2:
Word Analysis
Word Analysis
COMPETENCY 3: Understand the role of phonological and phonemic awareness in reading development and how to develop students' phonological and phonemic awareness skills.
COMPETENCY 4: Understand the role of concepts about print, letter recognition, and the alphabetic principle in reading development and how to develop students' knowledge and skills in these areas COMPETENCY 5: Understand important terminology and concepts involved in phonics instruction and recognize the role of phonics and sight words in reading development. COMPETENCY 6: Understand how to develop students' phonics knowledge and skills and recognition of sight words to promote accurate word analysis that leads to automaticity in word recognition and contributes to spelling development. COMPETENCY 7: Understand the role of syllabic and structural analysis and orthographic knowledge in reading development and how to develop students' knowledge and skills in these areas to promote accurate word analysis that leads to automaticity in word recognition and contributes to spelling development. |
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Domain 3:
Fluency COMPETENCY 8: Understand the role of fluency in reading development and factors that affect students' development of fluency.
COMPETENCY 9: Understand how to promote students' fluency development. |
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Domain 4:
Vocabulary, Academic Language, and Background Knowledge COMPETENCY 10: Understand the role of vocabulary, academic language, and background knowledge in reading development and factors that affect students' development of vocabulary, academic language, and background knowledge.
COMPETENCY 11: Understand how to promote students' development of vocabulary, academic language, and background knowledge. |
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Domain 5:
Comprehension COMPETENCY 12: Understand literal, inferential, and evaluative comprehension and factors affecting reading comprehension.
COMPETENCY 13: Understand how to facilitate reading comprehension by providing instruction that prepares students for the reading task, scaffolds them as needed through the reading process, and prepares them to respond to what they have read. COMPETENCY 14: Understand how to promote students' comprehension and analysis of narrative/literary texts and their development of literary response skills. COMPETENCY 15: Understand how to promote students' comprehension of expository/informational texts and their development of study skills and research skills. |
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