Cliffsnotes Praxis Reading for Virginia Educators: Elementary and Special Education (5306)

The perfect way to study for Virginia's elementary education and special education reading teacher certification test, with subject reviews and two model practice tests Focusing on what entry level Virginia elementary and special education teachers need to be certified to teach, this test-prep guide includes targeted strategies for the selected-response and constructed-response questions, and reviews of every test specification a candidate will be tested on, including instructional process, assessment and diagnostic teaching, oral language and communication, reading development, and writing and research. The two practice tests are full-length model exams that include answers and explanations to help candidates succeed when they take the test. AUTHORS: Jane R. Burstein, M.A., has been an ACT and SAT tutor for numerous years and is an Adjunct Instructor and Student Teaching Supervisor in the College of Education at Hofstra University, where her work includes preparing secondary-school ELA teacher candidates to create effective edTPA portfolios. She has gone through training with Pearson, the edTPA administrator, to grade Secondary ELA portfolios. She resides in Roslyn, New York. Diane E. Kern, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Education at the University of Rhode Island and a member of the School of Education's ad hoc committee on licensure tests. She resides in Wakefield, Rhode Island.