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Taking the Communication and Literacy Skills: Writing Subtest can be a daunting task. Because its goal is to test your classroom readiness across the spectrum of content, it covers a lot of ground.
Taking the Communication and Literacy Skills: Writing Subtest can be a daunting task. Because its goal is to test your classroom readiness across the spectrum of content, it covers a lot of ground. This breadth can make it hard to know how to prepare. Luckily, if you understand how the test is organized and what it is testing, you will have no problem prepping for this test. In order to cover everything, the exam is broken into six objectives.
| Writing Subtest – Objectives | Approx Test Weighting | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| Establish and Maintain a Main Idea | 15% | ||
| Sentence Construction | Grammar | Usage | 10% |
| Spelling | Capitalization | Punctuation | 10% |
| Revise Sentences Containing Errors | 15% | ||
| Summary Exercise | 15% | ||
| Composition Exercise | 35% |
You will have 4 hours to complete one or both subtests.
The Communication and Literacy Skills: Writing Subtest consists of 35 multiple-choice questions, 7 sentence correction items, and 2 open-response items. You will have 4 hours to complete one or both subtests. The test is administered via computer.
You should expect to see three main types of questions: single-answer, stimulus-based, and cluster. You should expect most questions to require you simply to click an oval next to the correct answer. They may ask you to zoom in on details in a graphic or picture, click boxes next to all that apply, click on checkboxes, click on parts of a graphic or sentence, use a drag and drop feature, or select your answer from a drop-down menu.
