diff --git a/lib/Cake/Model/Datasource/Database/Dialect/SqliteDialectTrait.php b/lib/Cake/Model/Datasource/Database/Dialect/SqliteDialectTrait.php
index a5b02343cbe..6c667364cd7 100644
--- a/lib/Cake/Model/Datasource/Database/Dialect/SqliteDialectTrait.php
+++ b/lib/Cake/Model/Datasource/Database/Dialect/SqliteDialectTrait.php
@@ -142,4 +142,15 @@ public function extraSchemaColumns() {
 		return [];
 	}
 
+/**
+ * Get the SQL to list the tables in Sqlite
+ *
+ * @param array $config The connection configuration to use for
+ *    getting tables from.
+ * @return array An array of (sql, params) to execute.
+ */
+	public function listTablesSql() {
+		return ["SELECT name FROM sqlite_master WHERE type='table' ORDER BY name", []];
+	}
+
 }
diff --git a/lib/Cake/Test/TestCase/Model/Datasource/Database/Driver/SqliteTest.php b/lib/Cake/Test/TestCase/Model/Datasource/Database/Driver/SqliteTest.php
index 06589a15d7b..22a47e726a6 100644
--- a/lib/Cake/Test/TestCase/Model/Datasource/Database/Driver/SqliteTest.php
+++ b/lib/Cake/Test/TestCase/Model/Datasource/Database/Driver/SqliteTest.php
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
 namespace Cake\Test\TestCase\Model\Datasource\Database\Driver;
 
 use Cake\Core\Configure;
+use Cake\Model\Datasource\Database\Connection;
 use Cake\Model\Datasource\Database\Driver\Sqlite;
 use Cake\Testsuite\TestCase;
 use \PDO;
@@ -182,4 +183,54 @@ public function testConvertColumnType($input, $expected) {
 		$this->assertEquals($driver->convertColumn($input), $expected);
 	}
 
+/**
+ * Creates tables for testing listTables/describe()
+ *
+ * @param Connection $connection
+ * @return void
+ */
+	protected function _createTables($connection) {
+		$connection->execute('DROP TABLE IF EXISTS articles');
+		$connection->execute('DROP TABLE IF EXISTS authors');
+
+		$table = <<<SQL
+CREATE TABLE authors(
+id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT,
+name VARCHAR(50),
+bio TEXT,
+created DATETIME
+)
+SQL;
+		$connection->execute($table);
+
+		$table = <<<SQL
+CREATE TABLE articles(
+id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT,
+title VARCHAR(20),
+body TEXT,
+author_id INT(11) NOT NULL,
+published BOOLEAN,
+created DATETIME
+)
+SQL;
+		$connection->execute($table);
+	}
+
+/**
+ * Test listing tables with Sqlite
+ *
+ * @return void
+ */
+	public function testListTables() {
+		$connection = new Connection(Configure::read('Datasource.test'));
+		$this->_createTables($connection);
+
+		$result = $connection->listTables();
+		$this->assertInternalType('array', $result);
+		$this->assertCount(3, $result);
+		$this->assertEquals('articles', $result[0]);
+		$this->assertEquals('authors', $result[1]);
+		$this->assertEquals('sqlite_sequence', $result[2]);
+	}
+
 }