FTCE ELEMENTARY EDUCATION K-6 EXAM
ACTUAL TEST PAPER 2026 COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◉ Comprehension. Answer: Ability to understand what one has
read. Includes recognizing main idea of article or able to compare
and contrast different characters.
◉ Word Recognition. Answer: the student has ability to visually
identify words in isolation or context.
◉ Phases of word recognition. Answer: pre-alphabetic, partial-
alphabetic, full-alphabetic, graphophonemic, and morphemic.
◉ Text to self. Answer: the reader made a connection from the
reading to own personal life.
◉ Text to text. Answer: the reader made a connection from the
reading to another book with similar writing style, theme, or topic.
◉ Text to world. Answer: the reader made a connection from the
reading to a topic or an event that has taken place in the world.
,◉ Critical Thinking Strategies. Answer: making connections, making
predictions, questioning, summarizing
◉ Making predictions. Answer: use title and illustration on cover to
predict what a text will be about aids comprehension. Throughout
reading, predictions can be affirmed or revised.
◉ Questioning. Answer: helps students make meaning of text being
read. Questions about text, author's intent etc.
◉ "Right there" questions (text explicit). Answer: literal questions.
Answer in the text itself.
◉ "Think and search" (text implicit). Answer: the answer is implicit
in text. Student must synthesize, infer, or summarize to find answer.
◉ "Reader and author" (implicit or experienced based). Answer:
Reader must combine own experience with what texts states.
◉ "On my own" (implicit or experienced based). Answer: Reader
must generate answer from prior knowledge.
◉ Summarizing. Answer: to simply and concisely paraphrase what
has been read.
, ◉ Reading Fluency. Answer: accuracy, automaticity, rate, prosody
◉ Accuracy. Answer: ability to correctly read the words in a text
◉ Automaticity. Answer: ability to instantly recognize a large bank of
words to quickly decode unfamiliar words.
◉ Rate. Answer: speed of reading
◉ Prosody. Answer: ability to read with appropriate rhythm,
intonation, and expression.
◉ Reading Comprehension. Answer: Main idea, supporting details
and facts, author's purpose, fact and opinion, point of view,
inference, visualize, conclusion
◉ Main idea. Answer: Determining the essential message of a
reading selection.
◉ Supporting details and facts. Answer: provides the reader with the
vital info needed to synthesize and summarize.
ACTUAL TEST PAPER 2026 COMPLETE
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◉ Comprehension. Answer: Ability to understand what one has
read. Includes recognizing main idea of article or able to compare
and contrast different characters.
◉ Word Recognition. Answer: the student has ability to visually
identify words in isolation or context.
◉ Phases of word recognition. Answer: pre-alphabetic, partial-
alphabetic, full-alphabetic, graphophonemic, and morphemic.
◉ Text to self. Answer: the reader made a connection from the
reading to own personal life.
◉ Text to text. Answer: the reader made a connection from the
reading to another book with similar writing style, theme, or topic.
◉ Text to world. Answer: the reader made a connection from the
reading to a topic or an event that has taken place in the world.
,◉ Critical Thinking Strategies. Answer: making connections, making
predictions, questioning, summarizing
◉ Making predictions. Answer: use title and illustration on cover to
predict what a text will be about aids comprehension. Throughout
reading, predictions can be affirmed or revised.
◉ Questioning. Answer: helps students make meaning of text being
read. Questions about text, author's intent etc.
◉ "Right there" questions (text explicit). Answer: literal questions.
Answer in the text itself.
◉ "Think and search" (text implicit). Answer: the answer is implicit
in text. Student must synthesize, infer, or summarize to find answer.
◉ "Reader and author" (implicit or experienced based). Answer:
Reader must combine own experience with what texts states.
◉ "On my own" (implicit or experienced based). Answer: Reader
must generate answer from prior knowledge.
◉ Summarizing. Answer: to simply and concisely paraphrase what
has been read.
, ◉ Reading Fluency. Answer: accuracy, automaticity, rate, prosody
◉ Accuracy. Answer: ability to correctly read the words in a text
◉ Automaticity. Answer: ability to instantly recognize a large bank of
words to quickly decode unfamiliar words.
◉ Rate. Answer: speed of reading
◉ Prosody. Answer: ability to read with appropriate rhythm,
intonation, and expression.
◉ Reading Comprehension. Answer: Main idea, supporting details
and facts, author's purpose, fact and opinion, point of view,
inference, visualize, conclusion
◉ Main idea. Answer: Determining the essential message of a
reading selection.
◉ Supporting details and facts. Answer: provides the reader with the
vital info needed to synthesize and summarize.
