NYSTCE Multi-Subject Grades 1–6 Study Guide

• How children learn language: speaking, listening, vocabulary, and grammar.
• Phonological awareness and phonics: sounds, blending, segmenting, and spelling patterns.
• Reading fluency: accuracy, rate, and expression, and how to measure them.
• Comprehension of stories and informational text, including text structure.
• Writing instruction, research skills, and using assessment results to plan lessons.

Study tip: about 60% of the multiple-choice score is literacy knowledge and early reading skills, so practice those first.

• Place value, whole-number operations, and properties of operations.
• Fractions, decimals, ratios, rates, and percents — the heaviest single area.
• Expressions, equations, and patterns.
• Measurement, area, perimeter, volume, and shapes.
• Reading graphs and data, and how to teach math concepts and spot student errors.

Study tip: know why procedures work. Many questions show a student's mistake and ask what they misunderstand.

• Science: life, earth, and physical science, plus the steps of scientific investigation.
• Social studies: U.S. and New York history, geography, government, and economics.
• Fine arts, health and fitness, family and consumer science, and career development.

Study tip: science and social studies together are about 80% of this part.

Parts One and Two each include one long written response worth 30% and 20% of the score. Read our written response guide to see how to plan yours.