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Dear Friend,

On a beautiful late spring afternoon, this past year, a young woman received the devastating news. She had just gotten back her result on the RICA. It was not what she had hoped for. In fact, it was not even close to the expectations she had considering her past experience and educational background.

She had failed.

Then she remembered her friends and felt even worse. She did not look forward to having to tell them the embarrassing news, especially after she had boasted that it was no big deal. She had been procrastinating about taking the exam because she hated standardized tests, and this only confirmed her hatred.

"What will I do now?" she thought with dismay, slowly realizing the harsh reality of her predicament and its upsetting implications on her future.

How to Solve the Problem

Unfortunately, this hypothetical situation occurs all the time. Someone thought they were going to breeze through the examination, told all their friends, made plans for their future, and then got an embarrassing reality check from the RICA.

The Reading Instruction Competence Assessment (RICA) is quite simply an objective assessment of a test taker's requisite foundation of knowledge and skills.

RICA scores are used by the Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CTC) and Pearson Education, Inc. as a uniform standard of qualification. While it may not be fair, all of a person's plans for the future may be dependent upon needing a certain RICA score.

That is the whole purpose of the RICA Secrets study guide: to give test takers the keys to understand how to succeed on the RICA.

Our RICA Test Study Guide Is Unlike Any Other

If you'd like to get the RICA score you deserve, to quit worrying about whether your score on the RICA is good enough, and to beat the test taking game, then this might be the most important message you read this year.

Our comprehensive study guide for the RICA is written by our test experts, who painstakingly researched the topics and the concepts that you need to know to do your best on the RICA. Our original research into the Reading Instruction Competence Assessment (RICA), offered by the Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CTC) and Pearson Education, Inc., reveals the specific content areas and the essential skills that are critical for you to know on the RICA. We've taken the information and developed a study guide that is guaranteed to help you be successful on the RICA.

The Exclusive Test Taking Techniques

• Learn why, when, and how to guess to your advantage. Many test takers use exactly the wrong strategy, but you can avoid the pitfalls with the help of our standardized test experts.
• Why answers that sound correct are often the very ones that are wrong and how to tell the difference between the right answer and the many clever-sounding traps set for you by the test writers.
• Our benchmark method for deciding which of the answer choices you should pick.
• What to do about the tough questions that you have no clue how to answer. Don't just give up, use the advice we offer to make sure you give yourself the best chance of getting the right answer.
• Learn how to group your answer choices into families that often narrows down the pool of correct answers. This is a quick way to immediately eliminate one or two of the answer choices and increase your odds of getting the question right.

Before we go any further, let us clarify what RICA Secrets is not. It is not a stale rehash of all of the things you have already learned in the past.

RICA Secrets is our exclusive collection of the tips and the information that we have specially selected to give you the best results on the RICA for the least time spent studying. It's written in everyday language and is easy to use.

We cover the essential skills necessary to do well on the RICA, plus comprehensive reviews covering all of the essential test sections individually.

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When you consider what's at stake with the exam, we believe the value of our study guide gives you at least ten times your money's worth.

In summary, here's what you get:

When you buy RICA Secrets, it includes:

The 5 Secret Keys to RICA Success

• Plan Big, Study Small
• Make Your Studying Count
• Practice the Right Way
• Pace Yourself
• Have a Plan for Guessing

The Comprehensive General Strategy Review

• Read Carefully
• Contextual Clues
• Prefixes
• Hedge Words
• Switchback Words
• Face Value
• Answer Selection
• Eliminate Answers
• Avoid Fact Traps
• Extreme Statements
• Benchmark
• Predict the Answer
• Tough Questions
• Check Your Work
• Pace Yourself
• Don’t Rush
• Keep Moving

The Comprehensive Content Review

• Academic Language
• Analogy
• Analytic Phase of Phonics
• Antonyms
• Basic Concepts of Print
• California Achievement Test
• Cluing
• Concept Learning
• Contractions
• Decodable Text
• Decoding of Multisyllabic Words
• Descriptive Writing Exercises
• Diphthong
• Encoding Assessments
• English-Language Arts Content Standards
• 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
• Multiple Subject Teaching Credential
• Oral Reading Practice
• Orthographic Knowledge
• Orthographic Phase
• Phonemic Awareness Test
• Reading Comprehension
• Reading Interest Survey
• Root Words
• Sight Vocabulary
• Sound Isolation
• Sound Matching
• Sound Segmentation
• Spelling Skill Development
• Synonyms
• Syntactic Approach
• Synthetic Phonics Instruction
• Transitional Spellers
• Vocabulary
• Word Wall
• Word Webs
• Yopp-Singer Test

plus all of the other special tips and secrets we have included to help you prepare for the exam.

Receive the Following Bonuses

Since we know it's 100% to your benefit to use our study guide, we want to further encourage you by also including the following with your order:

• Bonus One: RICA Practice Test Questions

  Think you're ready for your RICA? Test yourself using our practice test questions. Find out if you're prepared or if you need to head back to the study guide for another review. Use our practice test questions to make sure that you're not caught off guard on the day of the test!

  Detailed answer explanations are included for the questions. It may sound obvious, but you have to know which questions you missed (and more importantly why you missed the question) to be able to avoid making the same mistakes again when you take the real test. That's why the practice test questions we include for the RICA test include answer keys with detailed answer explanations to each question. The in-depth answer explanations will allow you to better understand the questions that were difficult for you or that you needed more help to understand.

• Bonus Two: Video Reviews from Mometrix Academy

  Our study guide is the only product on the market to feature embedded video codes for Mometrix Academy, our new video tutorial portal. The exclusive codes available in this study guide help reinforce your learning experience. After reading about a concept, you can watch a member of the Mometrix teaching staff show you exactly how to apply what you have learned on test day.

• Bonus Three: Study Skills

  The way to get the test score that you deserve is by proper preparation. The best preparation includes both knowing what to study and how to study. Our RICA Secrets study guide will teach you what you need to know, but our Study Skills bonus will show you HOW to use the information to be successful on the RICA. The ability to learn faster will accelerate the progress you make as you study for the test.

• Bonus Four: How to Overcome Test Anxiety

  Do you get really nervous the day before important tests? If so, you could be suffering from a mild form of what's known as test anxiety. The report we include gives you some of the latest important research into test anxiety, including our exclusive tips on how to make the test-taking experience as stress-free as possible while maximizing the score potential you have.

• Bonus Five: Teaching Secrets

  If your teaching career is a concern for you, then we'd like to also give you a copy of Teaching Secrets, a fun-to-read guide that goes into detail about the challenges of teaching and classroom management:

  • How to maintain discipline in the classroom regardless of what happens and how out of control your class might be
  • Discover how this one technique can eliminate nearly all of the excuses that your creative students can throw out at you
  • The ONE critical attitude you must communicate to students and parents in order to establish yourself in charge of the classroom
  • How to take any trouble student and get them on your side - no matter how wild they might act, they will become putty in your hands

  Teaching Secrets is written by a teaching veteran with over 30 years of experience in the classroom. With her insightful comments and humorous writing style, you're guaranteed to learn useful information and have fun as you read. Teaching Secrets is here available completely free along with your regular purchase of a copy of RICA Secrets.

By the way, the bonuses are yours to keep even in the unlikely event you decide to take advantage of our ironclad money-back guarantee:

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By Jay Willis
This Page Last Updated: 09/18/2024