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RICA Subtest 2 Questions and Answers
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sight vocabulary ✔✔Words you can recognize and correctly pronounce
meaning vocabulary ✔✔words you understand when reading silently.
To comprehend a text, a reader must have adequately developed ✔✔- meaning vocabulary
- academic language knowledge
- background knowledge
Tiers of Academic Vocabulary ✔✔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 ✔✔academic words that run across disciplines. (identify,
summarize, classify, define)
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