Description

Features

• Uses case studies to cover all domains, concepts, strategies and assessments required by RICA.

• Specific answers to case study questions cover the strengths, needs, and strategies for each case. This same sequential format can be used to answer RICA questions.

• Model narratives appear throughout the text, allowing students to become familiar with the format used on the RICA (i.e., what short and long essays actually look like!) and become adept at structuring their own narrative responses in the required RICA “style.”

New To This Edition

• Includes five to nine multiple choice questions for each domain, with new questions added. Questions are based on actual classroom situations.

• Includes assessments for English language learners.

• Updated bibliography at the end of book, organized by topic, allows students to seek additional information on problem areas.

• Entertaining, informative case studies are now enhanced with feedback from readers as well as rewritten narratives to reflect RICA’s new style of questions and answers (Domains 1-4).

Table of Contents

Domain I: Planning and Organizing Reading Instruction Based
on Ongoing Assessment
Content Area 1: Conducting Ongoing Assessment of Reading Development
1.1 Principles of assessment
1.2 Assessing reading levels
1.3 Using and communicating assessment results
Content Area 2: Planning, Organizing, and Managing Reading Instruction
2.1 Factors involved in planning reading instruction
2.2 Organizing and managing reading instruction

Domain II: Developing Phonological and Other Linguistic
Processes Related to Reading
Content Area 3: Phonemic Awareness
3.1 Assessing phonemic awareness
3.2 The role of phonemic awareness
3.3 Developing phonemic awareness
Content Area 4: Concepts About Print
4.1 Assessing concepts about print
4.2 Concepts about print
4.3 Letter recognition
Content Area 5: Systematic, Explicit Phonics and Other Word Identification
Strategies
5.1 Assessing phonics and other word identification strategies
5.2 Explicit phonics instruction
5.3 Developing fluency
5.4 Word identification strategies
5.5 Sight words
5.6 Terminology
Content Area 6: Spelling Instruction
6.1 Assessing spelling
6.2 Systematic spelling instruction
6.3 Spelling instruction in context

Domain III: Developing Reading Comprehension and Promoting
Independent Reading
Content Area 7: Reading Comprehension
7.1 Assessing reading comprehension
7.2 Fluency and other factors affecting comprehension
7.3 Facilitating comprehension
7.4 Different levels of comprehension
7.5 Comprehension strategies
Content Area 8: Literary Response and Analysis
8.1 Assessing literary response and analysis
8.2 Responding to literature
8.3 Literary analysis
Content Area 9: Content Area Literacy
9.1 Assessing content area literacy
9.2 Different types of texts and purposes for reading
9.3 Study skills
Content Area 10: Student Independent Reading
10.1 Encouraging independent reading
10.2 Supporting at-home reading

Domain IV: Supporting Reading Through Oral and Written
Language Development
Content Area 11: Relationships Among Reading, Writing, and Oral Language
11.1 Assessing oral and written language
11.2 Oral language development
11.3 Written language development
11.4 Supporting English language learners
Content Area 12: Vocabulary Development
12.1 Assessing vocabulary knowledge
12.2 Increasing vocabulary knowledge
12.3 Strategies for gaining and extending meanings of words
Content Area 13: Structure of the English Language
13.1 Assessing English language structures
13.2 Differences between written and oral English
13.3 Applying knowledge of the English language to improve reading

Courses

Language Arts (Elementary)  [SUPPLEMENTS]   (Reading & Literacy)
Reading Methods (Supplementary)  [EXAM PREP]   (Reading & Literacy)

Next Edition(s)

• Case Studies in Preparation for the California Reading Competency Test, 4/E
  Rossi & Schipper
  ©2012  |  Allyn & Bacon  |  Paper; 120 pp  |  Instock
  ISBN-10: 0132599945  |  ISBN-13: 9780132599948
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  Pre-service and practicing teachers get practical help for preparing for the challenging California Reading Initiative Competency Assessment (RICA®) in a unique case study approach that covers all domains, concepts, strategies, and assessment required by RICA®.

   

  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®), 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®; and present a full range of ready-to-use instructional strategies.

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This concise, case-based text helps pre-service and practicing teachers prepare for the challenging California Reading Initiative Competency Assessment (RICA). A terrific companion to any literacy methods text for teacher preparation courses, the book includes cases from a wide variety of grade levels and student profiles, and provides scenarios for teaching whole classes, groups, and individual students. Drs. Rossi and Schipper cover all domains, concepts, strategies, and assessments required by RICA, and each case reflects research-based concepts and strategies covered in major reading methods and diagnosis texts.

New features to this edition include entertaining, informative case studies enhanced with reader feedback as well as model narratives rewritten to reflect RICA’s new style of questions and answers. The authors provide specific answers to case study questions that cover the strengths, needs, and strategies for each one, and an updated bibliography, organized by topic, allows students to seek additional information on problem areas.

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• Case Studies in Preparation for the California Reading Competency Test, eTextbook, 3/E
  Rossi & Schipper
  ©2007  |  Allyn & Bacon  |  Café Scribe; 112 pp  |  Available
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