The Elementary Education Fundamentals tests are designed to assess whether the entry-level elementary teacher has the content knowledge that is important, necessary, and needed at time of entry to the profession to teach reading, mathematics, social studies, and science at the elementary level.

Each state may require one or more of the subject tests to support a generalist elementary school license.

The Elementary Education Fundamentals: Reading and Language Arts test measures the knowledge and skills in reading and language arts necessary for a beginning teacher of children in primary through upper elementary school grades. The 80 selected-response questions are based on material commonly covered in a bachelor’s degree program in elementary education.

The test content is grounded in the Council for the Accreditation of Educator Preparation (CAEP) standards and Standards for the Preparation of Literacy Professionals from the International Literacy Association.

Test takers will also find that approximately ten to fifteen percent of questions call for application of reading and language arts (RLA) content and processes within a teaching scenario or an instructional task. Such questions—designed to measure applications of RLA knowledge to the kinds of decisions and evaluations a teacher must make during work with students, curriculum, and instruction—situate RLA content questions in tasks critical for teaching. In the Tasks of Teaching Reading and Language Arts section, the list of tasks reflect the routine components of RLA instruction. These tasks, identified based on research on reading instruction, have been confirmed by a national committee of teachers and teacher educators as important for effective teaching of elementary RLA.

This test may contain some questions that will not count toward your score.