The Elementary Education: Teaching Reading Subtest 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 consists of a variety of selected-response questions for which you will select one or more answer choices, and other types of questions.