ILTS Study Guide 2026
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📋 ILTS Exam Format at a Glance
📚 ILTS Topics to Study (21)
✍️ Sample ILTS Questions & Answers
1. In grammar instruction, which sentence contains a dangling modifier?
In option C, 'Running quickly' modifies 'the trophy,' which cannot run—the intended subject (the athlete) is absent, creating a dangling modifier.
2. What does 'data-driven school counseling' require counselors to do?
Data-driven counseling requires collecting and analyzing student outcome data to demonstrate program impact and guide continuous improvement.
3. When teaching close reading, an ELA teacher asks students to annotate a text. Which of the following BEST describes the purpose of close reading annotation?
Close reading annotation involves marking significant passages, noting questions, identifying unfamiliar vocabulary, and making connections to support deep textual analysis.
4. Which five components of reading were identified by the National Reading Panel as essential for effective literacy instruction?
The National Reading Panel identified phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension as the five essential components of reading.
5. A novel written from the perspective of a character who participates in the story's events and uses 'I' throughout is written in which point of view?
First-person point of view uses 'I' and places the narrator as a participant within the story, limiting knowledge to what that character experiences.
6. Which Illinois Social Studies standard area focuses on civics and government for elementary students?
Illinois Social Studies Standard 14 addresses political systems, including civics and government concepts taught at the elementary level.