LANTITE Literacy study guide
LANTITE Literacy · Work through your exam, one topic at a time.
LANTITE stands for the Literacy and Numeracy Test for Initial Teacher Education Students. It is the literacy component of that test, which sits within ACER's catalogue of testing programs alongside other national and international assessments. The exam is aimed at initial teacher education students - people enrolled in an ITE course who need to demonstrate that their personal literacy sits in the top band of the adult population before they graduate and register as teachers. The literacy test covers reading comprehension and the technical aspects of language: understanding written texts of different kinds, interpreting and evaluating information, and recognising correct grammar, spelling, punctuation and vocabulary in context. Preparation is best built around sustained reading of unfamiliar non-fiction and structured practice on error-correction and text-interpretation items, rather than memorising rules in isolation. Candidates should also confirm current test arrangements directly with ACER or their university, because the ACER LANTITE page was unavailable when this guide was compiled and no official specifications could be verified. Topics on this exam: Literacy. The LANTITE Literacy study guide has 1 section and about 429 words.
01LANTITE Literacy: Reading Comprehension and Language Conventions
LANTITE Literacy tests the reading and language skills a teacher needs to interpret curriculum documents, student work and parent communication, and to model standard Australian English. ACER administers 65 multiple-choice questions in 120 minutes; the pass standard sits at roughly the top 30 per cent of Year 9 students, so reading load and distractors - not content - defeat most candidates. Items reflect the Australian Curriculum: English and the Graduate Australian Professional Standards for Teachers. Reading: unseen informative, persuasive, literary and everyday/workplace texts, with items on main idea, locating detail, vocabulary in context, inference, author purpose and tone, and how structure or visuals shape meaning.
429 words, about 2 minMore study resources for LANTITE Literacy
- Practice questionsA student writes: 'The teacher gave the class their results.' Which statement best describes the grammatical function of 'the class' in this sentence?
- FlashcardsMain idea question. Asks for the overall point of the whole passage.
- Cheat sheetLANTITE Literacy is a 65-question, 120-minute multiple-choice test delivered onscreen; it is a pass/fail threshold test, not a ranked score, and results are reported as a standard score against a set cut score.
- Key termsphoneme. The smallest unit of sound that can distinguish one word from another in a language, such as the difference between /b/ and /p/ in 'bat' and 'pat'.
- Study planDiagnose baseline by completing one full-length untimed practice reading and writing set and tabulate errors by skill (main idea, inference, vocabulary in context, grammar, punctuation, spelling).
- Common mistakesCandidates assume the test rewards ornate vocabulary, so they pick the longest, most Latinate option.
- Exam-day guideBring the original current photo ID that matches the name on your registration (commonly a passport or driver licence).