Ready for RICA: A Test Preparation Guide for California's Reading Instruction Competence Assessment, 4th edition
Title overview
Invigorate learning with the Enhanced Pearson eText
The Enhanced Pearson eText provides a rich, interactive learning environment designed to improve student mastery of content with the following multimedia features:
- Embedded videos illustrate key concepts and strategies. Links to 13 videos by the author discuss information and instructional strategies that all test takers should know. (See pages 10, 102, and 141 for examples.)
Instructors, visit pearsonhighered.com/etextbooks/ted to register for your digital examination copy. Students, register for or purchase your eText at pearsonhighered.com/etextbooks/ted.
Additional text benefits include:
- A structure that parallels the RICA Content Specifications organizes the book by the 15 Competencies of the RICA–making it ideal for both students who want to read it from cover to cover and also for those who want to focus on a specific area covered by the test.
- Five test-taking strategies presented in the introduction help students increase their chances of passing the test.
- A full chapter on how to answer the case study (Ch. 17) tackles this sometimes overwhelming part of the RICA by giving students a clear, proven process for developing and writing a successful response.
- The book’s concise, clear approach fills a unique niche as a test preparation guide meant to be used during or after a reading methodology course.
- A chapter correlated to the practice test on the RICA Website (Ch. 18) lets students practice taking the test, with references to where the content of each question is covered in Ready for RICA.
Invigorate learning with the Enhanced Pearson eText
The Enhanced Pearson eText provides a rich, interactive learning environment designed to improve student mastery of content with the following multimedia features:
- Embedded videos illustrate key concepts and strategies. Links to 13 videos by the author discuss information and instructional strategies that all test takers should know. (See pages 10, 102, and 141 for examples.)
Instructors, visit pearsonhighered.com/etextbooks/ted to register for your digital examination copy. Students, register for or purchase your eText at pearsonhighered.com/etextbooks/ted.
Key content changes include:
- Learning Outcomes alert readers to what they should know and be able to do when they have finished reading the chapter.
- Chapter Summaries, organized by the Learning Outcomes, include Test Taking Tips to either restate essential information or to highlight a key instructional strategy.
- Ten Days to RICA, a new chapter in this edition, directs readers to topics they should study during the ten days prior to the date they take the RICA.
- A new Glossary of 210 reading-related words and phrases includes user-friendly definitions written for prospective test takers, rather than scholars in the field (Ch. 20).
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Author bios
Dr. James Zarrillo is Professor Emeritus in the College of Education and Allied Studies (CEAS) at California State University, East Bay. Earlier, Dr. Zarrillo was the Associate Dean of CEAS and Chair of the Department of Teacher Education. Previously, he was a member of the faculty at California State University, Long Beach and an elementary school teacher in Burbank, California. In addition to Ready for RICA, Dr. Zarrillo is author of Teaching Elementary Social Studies: Principles and Applications (Fourth Edition, Pearson, 2012); Teaching Reading with Children’s Literature (co-authored with Carole Cox, Macmillan, 1993); and Multicultural Literature, Multicultural Teaching (Harcourt Brace, 1994).