FTCE Reading K-12 case studies
FTCE Reading K-12 · Put your knowledge to work in context.
Reading K–12 (035) is one of the subject-area examinations listed in the Florida Teacher Certification Examinations (FTCE) program on the official FTCE/FELE site, fl.nesinc.com. Florida uses this subject-area test in the certification process for educators who teach reading, and candidates typically take it alongside the general professional preparation requirements that the Florida Department of Education sets for their certificate. The FTCE Reading K-12 case studies are 5 cases and about 3,450 words.
1Protecting Tier 1 When Teachers Want More Read-Aloud
At a Title I elementary school, the four second-grade teachers each teach a 90-minute reading block with 22 students. The district requires a 30-minute uninterrupted small-group segment inside that block, but the school has only one part-time interventionist and no additional paraprofessional.
733 words, about 4 min2Rhyme Without Blending in Kindergarten
At an elementary school in October, a kindergarten teacher has 19 students and a 15-minute daily phonological awareness block. Six students can rhyme and count syllables, but they cannot blend onset and rime (for example, /m/ + /ap/) or segment a three-phoneme word such as /s/ /u/ /n/.
702 words, about 4 min3Accurate but Slow in First Grade
Dev is a first grader in January. On a decodable passage that contains CVC, digraph, and short-vowel words, he reads 28 correct words per minute with 90% accuracy.
665 words, about 3 min4Vocabulary Lists and Round-Robin in Fourth Grade
A fourth-grade teacher has 26 students, including 9 English learners, in a 40-minute daily ELA block. On the fall district assessment, most students decode grade-level expository text accurately, but their scores on main-idea and inference questions are below the 30th percentile.
666 words, about 3 min5Screening Data and Tier Decisions in Third Grade
The third-grade data team at a K-5 school reviews the winter universal screener for 84 students. The screener includes a word-reading fluency measure and an oral reading fluency measure.
684 words, about 3 min