PECT LATEST 2026 CORE EXAM TEST QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Writing a research paper: books are laid out on the table. How do you decide what is
right for your topic? - ✔✔Look at the table of contents
✔✔Writing a research paper: why do you have students look at a bunch of websites? -
✔✔To gather background knowledge
✔✔Talking to first graders about what is near their houses what is this teaching? -
✔✔Community
✔✔PreK talking/role play community workers. Why is this important? - ✔✔It shows
"working as a community"
✔✔How do you teach "change over time"? - ✔✔Create a time line of their lives
✔✔Why do you graph a plants life? - ✔✔To show "change over time"
✔✔What's a primary source? - ✔✔Eye witness
✔✔On set - ✔✔Beginning sound CAT
✔✔Rime - ✔✔Ending sound that rhymes
✔✔Emergent Readers --> - ✔✔Decoder and phonics --> fluency --> reading
comprehension
✔✔If you're bad at reading comprehension - ✔✔Go back to fluency
✔✔If you're bad at fluency - ✔✔Go back to decoders and phonics
✔✔If you're bad at decoders and phonics - ✔✔NEVER go back to emergent readers, go
to on sets and rimes
✔✔Emergent Readers - ✔✔Print Awareness
Book Handling
Print Directionality
Book Organization
Pretend Read
Print Rich Environment
-Alphabetic Principle
-Print to Text Connection
-Phonemic Awareness
, ✔✔Decoder/Phonics - ✔✔Onset/Rime
Graphemes
Morphemes
Phonological Awareness
Word Segmentation
Nonsense Words
Blends
Diphthongs
-begin decodable books
-start w/ sight words
- connected texts
✔✔Fluency - ✔✔Accuracy/speed and rate
Words per minute
Repeated readings of same text
Reading inventory, miscue analysis, running record
Prosody
-test fluency using unknown passages
✔✔Reading Comprehension - ✔✔Learning to read to read to learn
Predictions
Summary
Connections (TS, TT, TW)
Modeled by Teacher
Close Activity
Five Finger Rule
Context Clues
Structural Analysis
✔✔Print Awareness - ✔✔Aware of the fact that there's print in your environment (name,
symbols)
✔✔Book Handling - ✔✔Knowing how to hold a book
✔✔Book Organization - ✔✔Tell you this is the beginning, end, title
✔✔Pretend Read - ✔✔Pretend to read or use the pictures to read a story
✔✔Print directionality - ✔✔Left to right
✔✔Print rich environment - ✔✔Posters, library of books, labels
✔✔Alphabetic Principle - ✔✔Never an answer even though it's all over the test
Match a sound to written letter
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔Writing a research paper: books are laid out on the table. How do you decide what is
right for your topic? - ✔✔Look at the table of contents
✔✔Writing a research paper: why do you have students look at a bunch of websites? -
✔✔To gather background knowledge
✔✔Talking to first graders about what is near their houses what is this teaching? -
✔✔Community
✔✔PreK talking/role play community workers. Why is this important? - ✔✔It shows
"working as a community"
✔✔How do you teach "change over time"? - ✔✔Create a time line of their lives
✔✔Why do you graph a plants life? - ✔✔To show "change over time"
✔✔What's a primary source? - ✔✔Eye witness
✔✔On set - ✔✔Beginning sound CAT
✔✔Rime - ✔✔Ending sound that rhymes
✔✔Emergent Readers --> - ✔✔Decoder and phonics --> fluency --> reading
comprehension
✔✔If you're bad at reading comprehension - ✔✔Go back to fluency
✔✔If you're bad at fluency - ✔✔Go back to decoders and phonics
✔✔If you're bad at decoders and phonics - ✔✔NEVER go back to emergent readers, go
to on sets and rimes
✔✔Emergent Readers - ✔✔Print Awareness
Book Handling
Print Directionality
Book Organization
Pretend Read
Print Rich Environment
-Alphabetic Principle
-Print to Text Connection
-Phonemic Awareness
, ✔✔Decoder/Phonics - ✔✔Onset/Rime
Graphemes
Morphemes
Phonological Awareness
Word Segmentation
Nonsense Words
Blends
Diphthongs
-begin decodable books
-start w/ sight words
- connected texts
✔✔Fluency - ✔✔Accuracy/speed and rate
Words per minute
Repeated readings of same text
Reading inventory, miscue analysis, running record
Prosody
-test fluency using unknown passages
✔✔Reading Comprehension - ✔✔Learning to read to read to learn
Predictions
Summary
Connections (TS, TT, TW)
Modeled by Teacher
Close Activity
Five Finger Rule
Context Clues
Structural Analysis
✔✔Print Awareness - ✔✔Aware of the fact that there's print in your environment (name,
symbols)
✔✔Book Handling - ✔✔Knowing how to hold a book
✔✔Book Organization - ✔✔Tell you this is the beginning, end, title
✔✔Pretend Read - ✔✔Pretend to read or use the pictures to read a story
✔✔Print directionality - ✔✔Left to right
✔✔Print rich environment - ✔✔Posters, library of books, labels
✔✔Alphabetic Principle - ✔✔Never an answer even though it's all over the test
Match a sound to written letter
