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RICA Subtest 2 Questions and Answers
sight vocabulary âœâ€Ã¢Å“â€Words you can recognize and correctly pronounce
meaning vocabulary âœâ€Ã¢Å“â€words you understand when reading silently.
To comprehend a text, a reader must have adequately developed âœâ€Ã¢Å“â€- meaning vocabulary
- academic language knowledge
- background knowledge
Tiers of Academic Vocabulary âœâ€Ã¢Å“â€1) words most children will know without instruction (rain,
water)
2) more difficult and appear in several contexts across two or more areas of study (climate,
nautical)
3) most difficult as they are only used in one area of study (unicellular, amoeba)
Nontechnical Academic Language âœâ€Ã¢Å“â€academic words that run across disciplines. (identify,
summarize, classify, define)
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