FTCE ELEMENTARY EDUCATION ACTUAL EXAM
PAPER 2026 QUESTIONS ANSWERS
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◉ Phonemic Awareness. Answer: The ability to hear and manipulate
the sounds of spoken language. Includes noticing rhyme and
recognizing the separate, small sounds in words (phonemes).
◉ Phonics. Answer: The understanding of the relationships between
the written letters of the alphabet and the sounds of spoken
language. This knowledge allows a reader to "decode" words by
translating the letters into speech sounds.
◉ Fluency. Answer: The ability to read quickly, accurately, and with
proper expression.
◉ Vocabulary. Answer: Includes all the words the reader can
understand and use.
◉ 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.
PAPER 2026 QUESTIONS ANSWERS
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
◉ Phonemic Awareness. Answer: The ability to hear and manipulate
the sounds of spoken language. Includes noticing rhyme and
recognizing the separate, small sounds in words (phonemes).
◉ Phonics. Answer: The understanding of the relationships between
the written letters of the alphabet and the sounds of spoken
language. This knowledge allows a reader to "decode" words by
translating the letters into speech sounds.
◉ Fluency. Answer: The ability to read quickly, accurately, and with
proper expression.
◉ Vocabulary. Answer: Includes all the words the reader can
understand and use.
◉ 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.
