WGU C 909 COMPREHENSIVE EXAM 2025 QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔What are the stages of writing development? - ✔✔Scribbling/drawing
Letter like forms and shapes
Letters
Letters and spaces
Conventional writing and spelling (children in this stage spell most words correctly with
a reliance on knowledge of phonics to spell longer words, they can punctuate, can
properly use capital and lower case letters. Writing different purposes is important,
handwriting and spelling becomes easier.
✔✔What are stages of reading development - ✔✔Early Emergent
Emergent (understands alphabet, phonological awareness and knows phonics, have
command of high frequency words, developing comprehension and word attack skills,
recognize types of texts, non-fiction and fiction, and that reading has a variety of
purposes).
Early Fluent
Fluent
✔✔What are the stages of the alphabetic phase - ✔✔The written forms of spoken,
alphabetic language languages which use letters (graphemes) in a code to represent
the sounds of speech (phonemes) specific sequences of letters form words, this is the
alphabetic principle. If we obeyed this principle we wouldn't have words like to, too, and
two.
✔✔Gradual release of responsibility - ✔✔Teaching approach that incorporates
scaffolding (building on what the student already knows) so that the responsibility for the
content is shifted from teacher to student.
✔✔Strategies for vocabulary/literacy development - ✔✔Integration: connecting new
vocabulary to prior knowledge
Repetition: encountering/using the word concept many times
Meaningful use: multiple opportunities to use new words in reading, writing, and soon
discussion
✔✔Reading Workshop (Balanced Literacy Framework) - ✔✔Shared: (teacher provides
explicit comprehensive instruction, everyone in the class reads a projected book, as
teacher moves pointer along screen)
Guided: (teacher with small groups who read at similar levels, use benchmark books to
determine student's level of reading, includes of a variety of genres including fiction and
non-fiction)
, Independent: (Students read from class library or leveled books, these are of personal
interest and include a wide variety, with Raz-Plus, you can read ebooks.)
✔✔Writing Workshops (Balanced Literacy Framework) - ✔✔Shared/Interactive: (teacher
and children compose message/story using a shared pen)
Guided: (teacher directed lesson and then student writes as teacher confers with the
student guiding the student's writing development, A-Z members have access to a
variety of writing lessons and genres)
Independent: (students write their own stories both narrative and informational)
✔✔Word Work (Balanced Literacy Framework) Students working with words so they
can become more fluent readers - ✔✔Phonemic awareness and Phonics: (Helps young
students to learn letter sound relationships, words broken into parts based on individual
speech sounds known as phonemes, and this phonemic awareness helps students to
sound out and spell words. Helps students to notice, differentiate, think about, and
manipulate sounds during effective phonological awareness instruction.)
High frequency words and vocabulary: (Building on a foundation of word knowledge by
emphasizing word structure and vocabulary, extends vocabulary and helps student
apply it in the context of reading, students use A-Z high frequency words and
vocabulary lesson plans.
✔✔High frequency words (Balance Literacy Framework) - ✔✔Most commonly used
words in printed text, over 50% of all text is composed of them.
✔✔Vocabulary (Balanced Literacy Framework) - ✔✔A large vocabulary opens students
up to a wider range of reading materials, it also students' ability to communicate through
speaking, listening, and writing.
✔✔Read aloud/Modeling reading (Balanced Literacy Framework) - ✔✔Teacher reads
aloud to the whole class or small group
✔✔Reading Skills taught within the Balanced Literacy Framework - ✔✔Concepts of
Print: (Showing students the features of written language, shows how words and letter
are used and text is organized.
Phonological/phonemic awareness: (spoken language can be broken down into smaller
units, sentences into words, words into syllables, and syllables into phonemes, it
encompasses oral language skills, such as rhyming, alliteration, sentence
segmentation, syllable blending, and segmenting, phoneme blending, and segmenting,
provides foundational skills for understanding the relationship between letters, and
phonemes)
ANSWERS RATED A+
✔What are the stages of writing development? - ✔✔Scribbling/drawing
Letter like forms and shapes
Letters
Letters and spaces
Conventional writing and spelling (children in this stage spell most words correctly with
a reliance on knowledge of phonics to spell longer words, they can punctuate, can
properly use capital and lower case letters. Writing different purposes is important,
handwriting and spelling becomes easier.
✔✔What are stages of reading development - ✔✔Early Emergent
Emergent (understands alphabet, phonological awareness and knows phonics, have
command of high frequency words, developing comprehension and word attack skills,
recognize types of texts, non-fiction and fiction, and that reading has a variety of
purposes).
Early Fluent
Fluent
✔✔What are the stages of the alphabetic phase - ✔✔The written forms of spoken,
alphabetic language languages which use letters (graphemes) in a code to represent
the sounds of speech (phonemes) specific sequences of letters form words, this is the
alphabetic principle. If we obeyed this principle we wouldn't have words like to, too, and
two.
✔✔Gradual release of responsibility - ✔✔Teaching approach that incorporates
scaffolding (building on what the student already knows) so that the responsibility for the
content is shifted from teacher to student.
✔✔Strategies for vocabulary/literacy development - ✔✔Integration: connecting new
vocabulary to prior knowledge
Repetition: encountering/using the word concept many times
Meaningful use: multiple opportunities to use new words in reading, writing, and soon
discussion
✔✔Reading Workshop (Balanced Literacy Framework) - ✔✔Shared: (teacher provides
explicit comprehensive instruction, everyone in the class reads a projected book, as
teacher moves pointer along screen)
Guided: (teacher with small groups who read at similar levels, use benchmark books to
determine student's level of reading, includes of a variety of genres including fiction and
non-fiction)
, Independent: (Students read from class library or leveled books, these are of personal
interest and include a wide variety, with Raz-Plus, you can read ebooks.)
✔✔Writing Workshops (Balanced Literacy Framework) - ✔✔Shared/Interactive: (teacher
and children compose message/story using a shared pen)
Guided: (teacher directed lesson and then student writes as teacher confers with the
student guiding the student's writing development, A-Z members have access to a
variety of writing lessons and genres)
Independent: (students write their own stories both narrative and informational)
✔✔Word Work (Balanced Literacy Framework) Students working with words so they
can become more fluent readers - ✔✔Phonemic awareness and Phonics: (Helps young
students to learn letter sound relationships, words broken into parts based on individual
speech sounds known as phonemes, and this phonemic awareness helps students to
sound out and spell words. Helps students to notice, differentiate, think about, and
manipulate sounds during effective phonological awareness instruction.)
High frequency words and vocabulary: (Building on a foundation of word knowledge by
emphasizing word structure and vocabulary, extends vocabulary and helps student
apply it in the context of reading, students use A-Z high frequency words and
vocabulary lesson plans.
✔✔High frequency words (Balance Literacy Framework) - ✔✔Most commonly used
words in printed text, over 50% of all text is composed of them.
✔✔Vocabulary (Balanced Literacy Framework) - ✔✔A large vocabulary opens students
up to a wider range of reading materials, it also students' ability to communicate through
speaking, listening, and writing.
✔✔Read aloud/Modeling reading (Balanced Literacy Framework) - ✔✔Teacher reads
aloud to the whole class or small group
✔✔Reading Skills taught within the Balanced Literacy Framework - ✔✔Concepts of
Print: (Showing students the features of written language, shows how words and letter
are used and text is organized.
Phonological/phonemic awareness: (spoken language can be broken down into smaller
units, sentences into words, words into syllables, and syllables into phonemes, it
encompasses oral language skills, such as rhyming, alliteration, sentence
segmentation, syllable blending, and segmenting, phoneme blending, and segmenting,
provides foundational skills for understanding the relationship between letters, and
phonemes)
