FTCE Reading Test

The FTCE Reading K-12 Exam comprises approximately 120 multiple-choice questions across several core competencies. You will receive a test booklet and a separate answer sheet.

This exam encompasses 13 core competencies, each with between two and seven skill areas. Competencies are defined as areas of content knowledge, with skills being the behaviors that demonstrate those competencies. The competencies and skills on the FTCE Reading K-12 Exam incorporate the Scientifically Based Reading Research (SBRR) as well as the components of Florida's Formula for Reading Success, which are:

Phonological awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension
Assessments to include screening, diagnostics, and progress monitoring
Initial instruction
Immediate intensive intervention
Addressing improved reading outcomes for Florida's students

Content specialists have determined that the competencies and skills tested are representative of the knowledge that is important for beginning reading teachers to have.

The 13 FTCE Reading K-12 Exam core competencies include:

The theories and underlying assumptions of reading processes
Emergent literacy
Decoding, encoding, and related reading processes
Reading fluency development
Reading comprehension
Content area reading and learning
Literary genres, elements, and interpretations
Diverse learners
Reading assessments
Print and nonprint media
Classroom environments that support reading
Research
Reading program supervision and administration

Each competency is assigned a percentage that represents the approximate proportion of test items in that content area compared to the total number of items on the exam. Question formats include direct questions, commands, sentence completion, and scenarios. Each question has four response options, which will be answered by bubbling in choice A, B, C, or D on the answer sheet.

FTCE Reading Test

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