RICA Subtest 3 Latest Update Guide with Questions

RICA Subtest 3 (Latest Update 2025 / 2026) Guide with Questions & Answers | 100% Correct | Grade A (Verified Answers)

Question:

strategies to promote independent reading

Answer:

• books need to be at an independent reading level

• should fit student's personal interest

• structured independent reading opportunities should be provided

• at home reading

• monitoring independent reading

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Question:

advantages of independent reading

Answer:

• provides familiarity with language patterns
• increases fluency
• increases vocabulary
• broadens knowledge in content area
• motivates further reading

Question:

Goldilocks test (appropriate reading level selection)

Answer:

students select a book that isn't too easy or too hard; its just right

Question:

Goldilocks test - Too Easy

Answer:

• Have you read it lots of times before?
• Do you know/understand the story very well?
• Do you know almost every word?
• Can you read it smoothly?
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Question:

Goldilocks Test - Too Hard

Answer:

• Are there more than 5 words on a page that you don't know?
• Are you confused about what is happening in most of this book?
• When you read, does it sounds choppy?

Question:

Goldilocks Test - Just Right

Answer:

• Is this book new to you?
• Are there just 2-3 words on a page that you don't know?
• Are you able to read some part of the story smooth while the others

choppy?

Question:

Five finger rule

Answer:

a way to find a just-right book; use your fingers to count the words you don't know - student reads one page and places a finger up each time they can't the word. if student has five fingers up before the page is read, the book is too hard.

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Question:

I + I Strategy (appropriate reading level selection)

Answer:

independent reading level + personal interest = best chance of success

Question:

interest inventory (appropriate reading level selection)

Answer:

An assessment of likes and dislikes - used for lesson planning

Question:

Sustained Silent Reading (SSR) (structured independent reading opportunities)

Answer:

structured activity in which children are given fixed time periods for reading self-selected materials silently

Question:

Reader's Workshop (structured independent reading opportunities)

Answer:

students read silently, small groups meet and work on projects, and the teacher meets with groups and individual students - expanded to reading and writing / difficult to do everyday because it is not direct instruction

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