About the Book
***Updated 2010: 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...
