Teaching Reading: Elementary (5205)
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The Teaching Reading: Elementary test focuses on the knowledge and skills a beginning teacher must have to support reading and writing development in kindergarten through sixth-grade students. The test specifications are based on the Standards for the Preparation of Literacy Professionals from the International Literacy Association (2017) and the standards from the International Dyslexia Association.
Built to assess the science of reading, the test is structured around the five essential components of effective reading instruction as identified by the National Reading Panel: phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension. The test also assesses the relationship between reading skills and writing instruction, since receptive and productive literacy are interrelated. Questions about assessment will be included throughout.
The test as a whole acknowledges multiple approaches to pedagogy used in tandem with content. This includes but is not limited to integrating skills and embedding student instruction within context, as well as looking at concepts in isolation in order to build upon them.