Praxis Teaching Reading: K-12 case studies
Praxis Teaching Reading: K-12 · Put your knowledge to work in context.
Teaching Reading: K-12 is a Praxis Subject Assessment delivered by ETS, the same organization behind the Praxis Core and other educator-certification tests. The exam is built for candidates seeking a reading or literacy license, or a teaching license that carries reading endorsement, and it samples the full K-12 range rather than a single grade band. The Praxis Teaching Reading: K-12 case studies are 5 cases and about 3,909 words.
1Kindergarten Letter Names, Phonemic Awareness, and a Scripted Program
In January, a kindergarten teacher has 21 students. The winter universal screener shows a median letter-name fluency score of 9 correct letter names per minute; the district benchmark is 25.
849 words, about 4 min2Third-Grade Fluency Scores Mask a Word-Recognition Bottleneck
Malik, a third grader, reads a grade-level passage at 42 words correct per minute with 89% accuracy. His errors cluster on vowel teams (said, bread), r-controlled vowels, and dropped endings (-ed, -ing).
785 words, about 4 min3Fourth-Grade Context-Clue Instruction Fails a Content-Unit Test
A fourth-grade teacher's class of 24 has just finished a unit on the American Revolution. On the unit test, the class average is 45%.
758 words, about 4 min4An MTSS Data System with Inconsistent Measures and Untrained Staff
An elementary school's fall screening results show 22% of students at benchmark, 41% some risk, and 37% at risk on a composite reading measure. The reading specialist has two 30-minute intervention blocks per day, one certified interventionist, and five paraprofessionals who have not been trained in any program.
738 words, about 4 min5Seventh-Grade Science: Grade-Level Text, Newcomers, and IEP Readers
A seventh-grade science teacher has 26 students in one 50-minute period. Six are English learners at WIDA levels 1-2; two of these newcomers have had interrupted formal education and read below grade 2 in their home language.
779 words, about 4 min