Early and Middle Childhood/Literacy: Reading-Language Arts

Content knowledge is assessed through the completion of approximately 45 selected response items and three constructed response exercises.

• Knowledge of Learners and Collaborating with Families (20%)
  • Knowing Each Student as an Intellectual, Social, Emotional, Cultural, and Language Learner
  • Understanding Learning and Child Development Theories
  • Assisting Families in Supporting Their Children’s Learning Development
• Equity, Fairness, and Diversity; the Learning Environment; and Literacy Assessment (25%)
  • Promoting Fairness and Equity
  • Establishing the Intellectual Environment
  • Selecting Resources
  • Knowledge of Assessment and Selecting and Administering Assessments
• Reading and Writing (20%)
  • Knowledge and Instruction of Reading
  • Knowledge and Instruction of Writing
  • Connections of Reading and Writing to the Other Language Arts and to Other Disciplines
• Listening and Speaking; Viewing and Visual Literacy (35%)
  • Knowledge and Instruction of Listening and Speaking
  • Knowledge and Instruction of Viewing and Visual Literacy
• Constructed Response: Analyzing Student Reading
  • In this exercise, candidates will analyze a transcript of a student’s oral reading, identify two significant patterns with respect to reading miscues and/or fluency, and discuss an appropriate teaching strategy to address one of the identified patterns.
• Constructed Response: Writing Development
  • In this exercise, candidates will identify one area of strength and one area of need in a student’s writing sample and describe a developmentally appropriate teaching strategy to address each of them.
• Constructed Response: Literacy Across the Curriculum
  • In this exercise, candidates will demonstrate their ability to integrate literacy and contentarea learning. Using the grade-level content-area text provided, candidates will create a learning experience that effectively supports students’ development of literacy strategies and content knowledge.