Cliffsnotes Rica 3rd Edition

An updated test-prep study guide on California's RICA (Reading Instruction Competence Assessment) including two model practice exams. California's Reading Instruction Competence Assessment (RICA) test ensures that all candidates for Multiple Subject Teaching Credentials (meaning elementary school teachers) and Education Specialist Instruction Credentials (meaning special education teachers for all grades) possess the necessary knowledge and skills to effectively teach reading to students. All would-be California elementary school teachers and all would-be California special education teachers must pass the RICA. 13,000 exams are administered every academic year. This 3rd Edition includes subject review material for all five RICA domains and two model practice tests.

An updated test-prep study guide on California’s RICA (Reading Instruction Competence Assessment) including two model practice exams. California’s Reading Instruction Competence Assessment (RICA) test ensures that all candidates for Multiple Subject Teaching Credentials (meaning elementary school teachers) and Education Specialist Instruction Credentials (meaning special education teachers for all grades) possess the necessary knowledge and skills to effectively teach reading to students. All would-be California elementary school teachers and all would-be California special education teachers must pass the RICA. 13,000 exams are administered every academic year. This 3rd Edition includes subject review material for all five RICA domains and two model practice tests.

This package includes the Enhanced Pearson eText and bound book. Test-taking strategies and content area reviews for successfully passing California's Reading Instruction Competence Assessment (RICA). Thousands of students have used previous editions of this resource to successfully prepare for the RICA. The new edition continues to provide test-taking strategies and helpful reviews of all 15 content areas and includes five significant new components. 1) Learning Outcomes in each chapter help readers focus on what they should accomplish by studying that chapter; 2) Chapter Summaries offer Test Taking Tips that re-state essential information and highlight key instructional strategies; 3) a new chapter, Ten Days to RICA, guides readers in what they should study during the last 10 days before they take the test; 4) 13 videos of the author offer insight on the most important information and instructional strategies; and 5) a new Glossary includes a dictionary of 210 reading-related words and phrases. This is the essential guide for all California Multiple Teaching Credential candidates required to take the RICA. Invigorate learning with the Enhanced Pearson eText The Enhanced Pearson eText provides a rich, interactive learning environment designed to improve student mastery of content with embedded videos. The Enhanced Pearson eText is also available without a print version of the textbook. Instructors, visit pearsonhighered.com/etextbooks/ted to register for your digital examination copy. Students, register for or purchase your eText at pearsonhighered.com/etextbooks/ted.

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***Includes Practice Test Questions*** RICA Secrets helps you ace the Reading Instruction Competence Assessment without weeks and months of endless studying. Our comprehensive RICA Secrets study guide is written by our exam experts, who painstakingly researched every topic and concept that you need to know to ace your test. Our original research reveals specific weaknesses that you can exploit to increase your exam score more than you've ever imagined. RICA Secrets includes: The 5 Secret Keys to RICA Exam Success: Time is Your Greatest Enemy, Guessing is Not Guesswork, Practice Smarter, Not Harder, Prepare, Don't Procrastinate, Test Yourself; A comprehensive General Strategy review including: Make Predictions, Answer the Question, Benchmark, Valid Information, Avoid Fact Traps, Milk the Question, The Trap of Familiarity, Eliminate Answers, Tough Questions, Brainstorm, Read Carefully, Face Value, Prefixes, Hedge Phrases, Switchback Words, New Information, Time Management, Contextual Clues, Don't Panic, Pace Yourself, Answer Selection, Check Your Work, Beware of Directly Quoted Answers, Slang, Extreme Statements, Answer Choice Families; A comprehensive Content review including: Academic Language, Analogy, Analytic Phase of Phonics, Antonyms, Basic Concepts of Print, Cluing, Concept Learning, Contractions, Decodable Text, Decoding of Multisyllabic Words, Descriptive Writing Exercises, Diphthong, Encoding Assessments, Etymology, Fluency, Focused Educational Problems, Formal Assessments, Habits of Listening, Homophones, Hypothetical Teaching Problem, Instructional Tasks, Kinesthetic Learners, Letter Recognition, Literal Comprehension, Logographic Phase, Metaphor, Orthographic Knowledge, Orthographic Phase, Phonemic Awareness Test, Reading Comprehension, Root Words, Sight Vocabulary, Sound Isolation, Syntactic Approach, Synthetic Phonics Instruction, Transitional Spellers, Vocabulary, Word Wall, Yopp-Singer Test, and much more...

Why CliffsTestPrep Guides? Go with the name you know and trust Get the information you need--fast! Written by test prep specialists About the contents: Introduction * A description of the test and scoring * Strategies for all question types Part I: Analysis of Exam Areas * Multiple-choice questions and strategies for each domain * Essay questions, approaches, sample essays, and critiques for each domain * Case studies, approaches, sample essays, and evaluations Part II: Review of Key Concept and Assessments, plus a Glossary * Content specifications for all 4 domains * Review of key concepts and assessments, plus a glossary Part III: 2 Full-Length Practice Tests with Answers and Explanations Test Prep Essentials from the Experts at CliffsNotes?

Pre-service and practicing teachers get practical help for preparing for the challenging California Reading Initiative Competency Assessment (RICA(R)) in a unique case study approach that covers all domains, concepts, strategies, and assessment required by RICA(R). This is the ideal resource for pre-service teachers who want practice in synthesizing and analyzing assessment and strategies for reading in the K--8 classroom, for credential candidates who need to prepare to succeed in taking the Reading Instruction Competence Assessment (RICA(R)), and for in-service teachers who want to enhance their assessment and instruction, while increasing students' learning. The book's unique organization includes a set of case studies at each grade level, followed by a section to assist teachers with brainstorming their knowledge as a first step in writing responses in narrative form. Following this, teachers get a section of strategic ideas that should be covered in writing their plan, as well as a sample narrative. The cases cover the diversity of student profiles in California's school population; represent all elementary grade levels; include a wide variety of scenarios for whole classes, groups, and individual students; cover the five domains required by the RICA(R); and present a full range of ready-to-use instructional strategies.