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Ace your Knowledge and Practice Examination for Effective Reading Instruction (KPEERI) with this comprehensive 2026 test bank. This resource features actual exam-style questions and correct answers with detailed rationales, updated for the current 2025/2026 testing cycle. It is designed to evaluate the principles and practices aligned with Structured Literacy™ and is a key step for educators seeking certification from the Center for Effective Reading Instruction (CERI)

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KPEERI EXAM PREP ACTUAL
EXAM QUESTIONS AND
CORRECT ANSWERS (100%
VERIFIED ANSWERS) | A+
GRADE |NEW!!

Print Awareness is: - answer-Understanding the function of print and how it is organized
on a page.

An example of print awareness is: - answer-A child points to a McDonald's billboard and
yells, "Mommy! I want a Happy Meal!"

Which is not an example of print awareness? - answer-A child indicates that he can sing
the alphabet song.

Print awareness tasks: - answer-Can be given by the classroom teacher, can help
students to develop print awareness, and are related to children's later success in
reading.

Print awareness typically, but not always, begins to develop: - answer-Before children
begin school.

A child who writes from top to bottom and from left to right possess: - answer-Print
awareness

Print awareness is an understanding that print: - answer-is different from pictures on a
page, carries meaning, and has practical uses.

What is the relationship between spoken and written language? - answer-Print is used
to represent the words we speak.

Which is an example of print awareness? - answer-Print is read from left to right.

Phonemic awareness is: - answer-A strong predictor of future reading success, a sub
skill of phonological awareness, and a foundational reading skill.

,There are __________________ sounds in the English language: - answer-More than
40.

Phoneme blending is: - answer-Harder than onset and rime.

The onset sound(s) is the: - answer-Sounds before the vowel in a syllable.

The definition of phoneme is, "The smallest part of _____________ language." -
answer-Spoken

The word eight has how many phonemes? - answer-2

Phonological awareness is: - answer-A person's ability to hear sound structures of
speech, a person's ability to manipulate sound structures of speech, and a print-free
skill set.

How are phonemes represented in writing to differentiate them from actual words? -
answer-By placing the letters between slashes /b/.

How many syllables do you hear in the word submerges? - answer-3

Which is an example of phoneme segmentation? - answer-A child telling his teacher
there are four sounds in truck, /t/ /r/ /u/ /ck/

The ability to hear, identify, and manipulate the onset and rimes in words is called
______________: - answer-Phonological awareness

The ability to hear, identify, and manipulate discrete, individual sounds in words is
called: - answer-Phonemic awareness

How many speech sounds are there in the English language? - answer-Between 42-44

An example of phonemic awareness is: - answer-A child categorizing pictures that begin
with the same sound.

Phonemic awareness activities include: - answer-Blending sounds together to make a
word, identifying words that begin with the same letter, and breaking a word into
individual sounds.

Phonological awareness activities include ________________: - answer-Syllable
blending

Digraphs such as "sh" make ________________ sound(s). - answer-1

, When teaching phonological awareness, teachers should: - answer-Use multisensory
activities, teach each skill to mastery, and start with the simplest skills and build to
harder skills.

Phonemic awareness is one part of _________________, which also includes activities
on phonemes, rhymes, syllables, and more: - answer-Phonological awareness

Phonics instruction: - answer-Should be taught because it teaches a system for
remembering how to read words.

The alphabetic principle is understanding: - answer-The relationship between letters
and spoken words.

The written letter A is a: - answer-Grapheme

Phonics programs are effective when they: - answer-Include a carefully selected set of
letter-sound relationships organized into a logical sequence, include a set of precise
directions for teaching these relationships, and include lots of opportunities for children
to apply learning to reading and writing.

Phonics instruction is most effective when it is taught: - answer-In primary grades.

Which is an example of systematic phonic instruction? - answer-Teaching a set of letter-
sound relationships in a clearly defined sequence.

Effective phonics programs provide students with opportunities to practice applying their
knowledge about phonics as they: - answer-Read, write, and blend sounds to form
words.

A teacher who is explaining how to place a set of words into categories based on their
spelling patterns is engaged in: - answer-Phonics instruction

Phonics instruction is important because it helps students to: - answer-Understand the
relationship between letters and sounds, recognize unfamiliar words, and improve
reading comprehension.

Fluent readers read text: - answer-Accurately, quickly, and with expression.

Readers who are "fluent": - answer-Read smoothly with appropriate phrasing.

Fluent readers are able to ________________ as they read: - answer-Connect ideas,
focus on meaning, and recognize words.

Fluency rate when reading fiction and non-fiction _____________: - answer-Is
sometimes different.

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