Elementary, Explained
The elementary content the K-6 certification exams actually test, one short lesson at a time. Each one comes with a written deep dive you can print. Free to watch, no account and no card.
With Claire · 6 lessons ready · more every week
Season 1 · 19% of ILTS 702 of the test
Foundations of Literacy
- ILTS 702 Elementary Education (K-6)
- Praxis 7002
- Praxis 5205
- NES Elementary Education
- MTTC Elementary Education
- CSET Multiple Subjects
Tested on these. Not necessarily required of you.
Episode 15:00How Reading Develops Before a Child Can ReadPrint awareness, oral language, and the stages every framework assumes you know.
Episode 25:03Screening, Diagnostic, and Progress MonitoringThree assessments that get confused on every elementary exam, and the one question that separates them.
Episode 34:26Phonological Awareness Is Not PhonicsOne is sound, one is print, and the exams test the difference on purpose.
Episode 45:25Decoding and Fluency: Why the Order MattersA scope and sequence is not a preference. Here is the logic the test expects you to know.- Episode 55:09Vocabulary and the Three TiersWhich words you teach directly, which you leave alone, and why academic language is its own problem.
- Episode 65:23Literary and Informational TextStory elements, text structures, and the features that make informational text its own skill.
Still being written
The rest of the series
- Season 2 · 19% of ILTS 702 of the testEnglish Language Arts and Biliteracy
- Season 3 · 19% of ILTS 702 of the testMathematics
- Season 4 · 14% of ILTS 702 of the testScience
- Season 5 · 14% of ILTS 702 of the testSocial Studies
- Season 6 · 14% of ILTS 702 of the testArts, Health, and Physical Development
When you are ready for the test itself
This is content review. The course is how you work the questions.
Knowing the content and beating the exam are two different jobs. These lessons do the first one, free, for as long as you want to use them. Built To Pass is the whole system for the second:
- A free diagnostic that shows you which objectives are actually weak
- Full-length mock exams on the real clock
- An AI test coach that answers at eleven at night
- The video lessons, in order, with no guessing what is next
Confidence is built, not born.
Keep the lessons coming
Two places we post first
New lessons land on YouTube the day they are finished, and the Facebook page is where the questions get answered.