WGU C909 OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT
EXAM 2024-2025 ACTUAL EXAM 100
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
DETAILED ANSWERS WITH
RATIONALES|ALREADY GRADED A+||
Constructivist Theory Correct Answers A philosophy based on the premise that people
construct their own understanding of the world they live in through reflection on
experiences.
Constructivist Theory in Practice Correct Answers For example: Groups of students in a
science class are discussing a problem in physics. Though the teacher knows the
"answer" to the problem, she focuses on helping students restate their questions in
useful ways. She prompts each student to reflect on and examine his or her current
knowledge. When one of the students comes up with the relevant concept, the teacher
seizes upon it, and indicates to the group that this might be a fruitful avenue for them to
explore. They design and perform relevant experiments. Afterward, the students and
teacher talk about what they have learned, and how their observations and experiments
helped (or did not help) them to better understand the concept.
Cognitive-constructivist view of reading Correct Answers Aim to assist students in
assimilating new information to existing knowledge, as well as enabling them to make
the appropriate accommodations to their existing intellectual framework to
accommodate that information. Ex. Because of Winn-Dixie; from her inference, and
active knowledge of the text says that people who have things in common often become
friends.
Socio-cultural theory/Ex. Correct Answers Extends the influence on the cognitive-
constructivist view out from the reader and the text into the larger social realm. Learning
is viewed as social rather than individual. -Lev Vygotsky Ex. Understanding the zone of
proximal development can be helpful for teachers.
In classroom settings, teachers may first assess students to determine their current skill
level. Educators can then offer instruction that stretches the limits of each child's
capabilities.
At first, the student may need assistance from an adult or a more knowledgeable peer,
but eventually, their zone of proximal development will expand. Teachers can help
promote this expansion by:
Planning and organizing their instruction and lessons: For example, the teacher might
organize the class into groups where less skilled children are paired with students who
have a higher skill level.
,Using hints, prompts, and direct instruction to help kids improve their ability levels.
Scaffolding, where the teacher provides specific prompts to move the child
progressively forward toward a goal.
Reader Response Theory Correct Answers The main argument of reader-response
theory is that readers, as much as the text, play an active role in a reading experience
(Rosenblatt, 1994). This theory rejects the structuralist view that meaning resides solely
in the text. Words in a text evoke images in readers' minds and readers bring their
experiences to this encounter.
Experiential Learning Correct Answers As the name suggests, experiential learning
involves learning from experience. The theory was proposed by psychologist David Kolb
who was influenced by the work of other theorists including John Dewey, Kurt Lewin,
and Jean Piaget
Oral Language Development Correct Answers The complex system that relates sounds
to meanings, is made of three components: phonological, (rules for combining sounds)
semantic, (the smallest units of meaning that may be combined to make up words) and
syntactic (the rules that combine morphemes into sentences). Reading and talking with
children plays an important role in developing their vocabulary. The more you talk to
children, the larger their vocabulary will develop. Note: Pragmatic is also the rules that
allow us to speak appropriately in different settings
What are the stages of writing development? Correct Answers 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 Correct Answers 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 Correct Answers 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 Correct Answers 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 Correct Answers 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) Correct Answers 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) Correct Answers 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 Correct Answers 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) Correct Answers Most commonly
used words in printed text, over 50% of all text is composed of them.
EXAM 2024-2025 ACTUAL EXAM 100
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT
DETAILED ANSWERS WITH
RATIONALES|ALREADY GRADED A+||
Constructivist Theory Correct Answers A philosophy based on the premise that people
construct their own understanding of the world they live in through reflection on
experiences.
Constructivist Theory in Practice Correct Answers For example: Groups of students in a
science class are discussing a problem in physics. Though the teacher knows the
"answer" to the problem, she focuses on helping students restate their questions in
useful ways. She prompts each student to reflect on and examine his or her current
knowledge. When one of the students comes up with the relevant concept, the teacher
seizes upon it, and indicates to the group that this might be a fruitful avenue for them to
explore. They design and perform relevant experiments. Afterward, the students and
teacher talk about what they have learned, and how their observations and experiments
helped (or did not help) them to better understand the concept.
Cognitive-constructivist view of reading Correct Answers Aim to assist students in
assimilating new information to existing knowledge, as well as enabling them to make
the appropriate accommodations to their existing intellectual framework to
accommodate that information. Ex. Because of Winn-Dixie; from her inference, and
active knowledge of the text says that people who have things in common often become
friends.
Socio-cultural theory/Ex. Correct Answers Extends the influence on the cognitive-
constructivist view out from the reader and the text into the larger social realm. Learning
is viewed as social rather than individual. -Lev Vygotsky Ex. Understanding the zone of
proximal development can be helpful for teachers.
In classroom settings, teachers may first assess students to determine their current skill
level. Educators can then offer instruction that stretches the limits of each child's
capabilities.
At first, the student may need assistance from an adult or a more knowledgeable peer,
but eventually, their zone of proximal development will expand. Teachers can help
promote this expansion by:
Planning and organizing their instruction and lessons: For example, the teacher might
organize the class into groups where less skilled children are paired with students who
have a higher skill level.
,Using hints, prompts, and direct instruction to help kids improve their ability levels.
Scaffolding, where the teacher provides specific prompts to move the child
progressively forward toward a goal.
Reader Response Theory Correct Answers The main argument of reader-response
theory is that readers, as much as the text, play an active role in a reading experience
(Rosenblatt, 1994). This theory rejects the structuralist view that meaning resides solely
in the text. Words in a text evoke images in readers' minds and readers bring their
experiences to this encounter.
Experiential Learning Correct Answers As the name suggests, experiential learning
involves learning from experience. The theory was proposed by psychologist David Kolb
who was influenced by the work of other theorists including John Dewey, Kurt Lewin,
and Jean Piaget
Oral Language Development Correct Answers The complex system that relates sounds
to meanings, is made of three components: phonological, (rules for combining sounds)
semantic, (the smallest units of meaning that may be combined to make up words) and
syntactic (the rules that combine morphemes into sentences). Reading and talking with
children plays an important role in developing their vocabulary. The more you talk to
children, the larger their vocabulary will develop. Note: Pragmatic is also the rules that
allow us to speak appropriately in different settings
What are the stages of writing development? Correct Answers 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 Correct Answers 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 Correct Answers 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 Correct Answers 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 Correct Answers 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) Correct Answers 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) Correct Answers 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 Correct Answers 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) Correct Answers Most commonly
used words in printed text, over 50% of all text is composed of them.
