Praxis Reading Specialist 5302 Study Guide 2026–2027 | 200 Practice Questions

Prepare for the Praxis® Reading Specialist (5302) test with a complete study guide organized around the four ETS content categories. Each chapter turns the official topic list into clear explanations, comparison tables, classroom examples, Exam Focus boxes, and labeled diagrams, so you can review literacy instruction, assessment, and leadership in one place.

This 199-page digital guide pairs a focused content review with two 100-question practice tests of exam-level questions and a constructed-response workshop, so you can practice interpreting student work samples and assessment data, choosing the best next step, and writing the two tasks that make up a quarter of the score.

What's Inside

• An overview of the current test: 95 selected-response questions and 2 constructed-response tasks in 150 minutes, the four content categories and their weights (37/23/15/25%), how the written tasks are scored from 0 to 3, scaled scoring, state-set qualifying scores, delivery options, fees, and retakes
• Curriculum and Instruction (15 chapters): the Simple View of Reading and the reading rope, the developmental continuum of literacy, dyslexia and other literacy profiles, curriculum design and materials, explicit instruction and multi-tiered support, cognition and motivation, English learners, and research-supported instruction and intervention for concepts of print, phonological awareness, phonics and decoding, morphology, vocabulary, fluency, comprehension, and written expression
• Assessment (7 chapters): screening, diagnostic, progress-monitoring, and outcome measures; reliability, validity, and score types; running records and oral reading calculations; analyzing a reader's profile; aim lines and decision rules; using data with teachers; presenting results to families; student goal setting
• Professional Leadership and Specialized Roles (7 chapters): first- and second-language acquisition, differentiated instruction, family and community engagement, the roles of the specialist and coach, collaboration and conflict resolution, the coaching cycle and professional learning, leadership teams, and advocacy
• Application (4 chapters): how the professional leadership task and the student case study work, planning frameworks, two fully worked examples with score-3 sample responses, sentence starters, and common mistakes
• 135 summary tables (syllable types, phoneme tasks, affixes and roots, text structures, score conversions, tiers of support, coaching stages), 7 labeled diagrams, and a final review checklist
• A six-week study plan with a three-week option, FAQs, test-taking strategies, and recommended resources
• 2 practice tests (200 questions, 4 answer choices each) weighted like the real test's three selected-response categories, built on scenarios, student work samples, and data tables, plus 2 constructed-response tasks per test with scoring notes and sample responses, and a separate answer key explaining every answer

Format

• Instant digital download (PDF), 8.5 × 11 in
• Clickable table of contents
• Print it or study on a tablet, laptop, or phone

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