Ready for RICA

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Note: This is the bound book only and does not include access to the Enhanced Pearson eText. To order the Enhanced Pearson eText packaged with a bound book, use ISBN 0134205197. 

Test-taking strategies and content area reviews for successfully passing California’s Reading Instruction Competence Assessment (RICA).

Thousands of students have used previous editions of James J. Zarrillo’s Ready for RICA to successfully prepare for the RICA. Now the new edition continues to provide test-taking strategies and helpful reviews of all 15 content areas and includes five significant new components: 1) Learning Outcomes in each chapter help readers focus on what they should accomplish by studying that chapter; 2) Chapter Summaries offer Test Taking Tips that re-state essential information and highlight key instructional strategies; 3) a new chapter, Ten Days to RICA, guides readers in what they should study during the last 10 days before they take the test; 4) 13 videos of the author offer insight on the most important information and instructional strategies; and 5) a new Glossary includes a dictionary of 210 reading-related words and phrases. This is the essential guide for all California Multiple Teaching Credential candidates required to take the RICA. The Enhanced Pearson eText features embedded videos.

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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).

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.

Note: This is the bound book only and does not include access to the Enhanced Pearson eText. To order the Enhanced Pearson eText packaged with a bound book, use ISBN 0134205197.

Test-taking strategies and content area reviews for successfully passing California’s Reading Instruction Competence Assessment (RICA).

Thousands of students have used previous editions of this resource to successfully prepare for the RICA. The new edition continues to provide test-taking strategies and helpful reviews of all 15 content areas and includes five significant new components. 1) Learning Outcomes in each chapter help readers focus on what they should accomplish by studying that chapter; 2) Chapter Summaries offer Test Taking Tips that re-state essential information and highlight key instructional strategies; 3) a new chapter, Ten Days to RICA, guides readers in what they should study during the last 10 days before they take the test; 4) 13 videos of the author offer insight on the most important information and instructional strategies; and 5) a new Glossary includes a dictionary of 210 reading-related words and phrases. This is the essential guide for all California Multiple Teaching Credential candidates required to take the 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 embedded videos. The Enhanced Pearson eText is also available without a print version of the textbook.

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.

Test-taking strategies and content area reviews for successfully passing California’s Reading Instruction Competence Assessment (RICA).

Thousands of students have used previous editions of James J. Zarrillo’s Ready for RICA to successfully prepare for the RICA. Now the new edition continues to provide test-taking strategies and helpful reviews of all 15 content areas and includes five significant new components: 1) Learning Outcomes in each chapter help readers focus on what they should accomplish by studying that chapter; 2) Chapter Summaries offer Test Taking Tips that re-state essential information and highlight key instructional strategies; 3) a new chapter, Ten Days to RICA, guides readers in what they should study during the last 10 days before they take the test; 4) 13 videos of the author offer insight on the most important information and instructional strategies; and 5) a new Glossary includes a dictionary of 210 reading-related words and phrases. This is the essential guide for all California Multiple Teaching Credential candidates required to take the 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.

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).