WGU D669 Early Literacy Methods OA ACTUAL
EXAM 2025/2026 COMPLETE QUESTIONS WITH
CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS || 100%
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WGU D669 Early Literacy Methods - Concept Mastery Guide
Domain 1: Foundations of Early Literacy
1. What is the primary goal of phonemic awareness instruction?
A) To teach letter-sound correspondence
B) To enable students to hear, identify, and manipulate individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken
words ✓
C) To improve reading fluency and speed
D) To build vocabulary knowledge
2. A child who can clap the syllables in the word "umbrella" (um-bre-lla) is demonstrating:
A) Phonemic awareness
B) Phonics
C) Phonological awareness ✓
D) Alphabet knowledge
3. Which of the following is the best example of a phonemic awareness task?
A) Pointing to the letter that makes the /m/ sound.
B) Blending the sounds /c/ /a/ /t/ to say "cat." ✓
C) Reading the word "dog" from a list.
D) Finding a word that rhymes with "sit."
4. The understanding that spoken words are composed of individual sounds and that print
corresponds to speech is known as:
A) The alphabetic principle ✓
B) Phonics
C) Concepts of print
D) Morphological awareness
5. A kindergarten teacher shows students a picture of a dog and the written word "dog"
underneath. She points to each letter as she says the sound. This activity is primarily building:
A) Phonemic awareness
,B) The alphabetic principle ✓
C) Vocabulary
D) Comprehension
6. According to the Simple View of Reading, reading comprehension is the product of:
A) Fluency and Motivation
B) Word Recognition and Language Comprehension ✓
C) Phonemic Awareness and Phonics
D) Vocabulary and Background Knowledge
7. If a student has strong language comprehension but poor word recognition skills, the
Simple View of Reading would classify them as:
A) A typical reader
B) A student with dyslexia or a specific word recognition deficit ✓
C) A student with a specific comprehension deficit
D) A balanced reader
8. Scarborough's Reading Rope model illustrates that reading is comprised of two major
strands:
A) Phonics and Fluency
B) Word Recognition and Language Comprehension ✓
C) Decoding and Vocabulary
D) Phonology and Syntax
9. In Scarborough's Rope, which sub-skill falls under the "Language Comprehension" strand?
A) Decoding
B) Sight Word Recognition
C) Background Knowledge ✓
D) Phonological Awareness
10. The ability to read quickly, accurately, and with proper expression is known as:
A) Phonics
B) Reading Fluency ✓
C) Phonemic Awareness
D) Automaticity
11. A student who reads a passage with appropriate phrasing, pauses at commas, and
changes tone for questions is demonstrating good:
A) Accuracy
B) Prosody ✓
,C) Rate
D) Decoding
12. Which of the following is a key component of Concepts of Print?
A) Knowing all letter sounds.
B) Understanding that print carries meaning and reading moves left to right, top to bottom. ✓
C) Being able to segment words into syllables.
D) Having a large vocabulary.
13. A teacher asks a student, "Show me where I start reading on this page." The teacher is
assessing the student's:
A) Phonemic awareness
B) Concepts of print ✓
C) Phonics knowledge
D) Comprehension
14. The term "orthography" refers to:
A) The study of word meanings.
B) The spelling system of a language. ✓
C) The system of speech sounds.
D) The rules for structuring sentences.
15. Which factor is the single biggest predictor of reading success in the early grades?
A) Socioeconomic status
B) Phonological awareness ✓
C) Parental education level
D) The size of a child's vocabulary
Domain 2: Phonological Awareness, Phonemic Awareness, and Phonics
16. What is the difference between phonological awareness and phonemic awareness?
A) They are the same thing.
B) Phonological awareness is the umbrella term; phonemic awareness is the ability to
manipulate individual sounds. ✓
C) Phonemic awareness deals with syllables, while phonological awareness deals with individual
sounds.
D) Phonological awareness is for reading, and phonemic awareness is for spelling.
17. Which task is an example of an initial phonemic awareness skill?
A) Deleting the /s/ sound from "stop" to make "top."
B) Identifying whether the /p/ sound is in "pat" or "cat." ✓
, C) Counting the number of syllables in "hippopotamus."
D) Generating a rhyme for "bell."
18. A more advanced phonemic awareness task is:
A) Rhyming
B) Blending onset and rime (/c/ + /at/)
C) Phoneme substitution (changing the /h/ in "hat" to /c/) ✓
D) Identifying the first sound in a word
19. The most effective way to teach phonemic awareness is:
A) With worksheets and letter tiles only.
B) Through incidental exposure during read-alouds.
C) With explicit, systematic instruction in small groups. ✓
D) By having students memorize sight words.
20. Phonics instruction specifically teaches the relationship between:
A) Words and their meanings.
B) Graphemes (letters) and phonemes (sounds). ✓
C) Sentences and paragraphs.
D) Spoken syllables and clapping.
21. A student who sees the word "ship" and says /sh/ /i/ /p/ is using what skill?
A) Phonemic awareness
B) Decoding ✓
C) Encoding
D) Fluency
22. Which phonics approach teaches students to analyze letter-sound relationships in known
words?
A) Synthetic phonics
B) Analytic phonics ✓
C) Analogical phonics
D) Embedded phonics
23. A teacher using a synthetic phonics approach would:
A) Have students look for patterns in known words (e.g., "cat, hat, sat").
B) Start with a whole word and break it down into its parts.
C) Teach students to convert letters into sounds and then blend them to form a word. ✓
D) Teach phonics only as needed during reading activities.
EXAM 2025/2026 COMPLETE QUESTIONS WITH
CORRECT DETAILED ANSWERS || 100%
GUARANTEED PASS <RECENT VERSION>
WGU D669 Early Literacy Methods - Concept Mastery Guide
Domain 1: Foundations of Early Literacy
1. What is the primary goal of phonemic awareness instruction?
A) To teach letter-sound correspondence
B) To enable students to hear, identify, and manipulate individual sounds (phonemes) in spoken
words ✓
C) To improve reading fluency and speed
D) To build vocabulary knowledge
2. A child who can clap the syllables in the word "umbrella" (um-bre-lla) is demonstrating:
A) Phonemic awareness
B) Phonics
C) Phonological awareness ✓
D) Alphabet knowledge
3. Which of the following is the best example of a phonemic awareness task?
A) Pointing to the letter that makes the /m/ sound.
B) Blending the sounds /c/ /a/ /t/ to say "cat." ✓
C) Reading the word "dog" from a list.
D) Finding a word that rhymes with "sit."
4. The understanding that spoken words are composed of individual sounds and that print
corresponds to speech is known as:
A) The alphabetic principle ✓
B) Phonics
C) Concepts of print
D) Morphological awareness
5. A kindergarten teacher shows students a picture of a dog and the written word "dog"
underneath. She points to each letter as she says the sound. This activity is primarily building:
A) Phonemic awareness
,B) The alphabetic principle ✓
C) Vocabulary
D) Comprehension
6. According to the Simple View of Reading, reading comprehension is the product of:
A) Fluency and Motivation
B) Word Recognition and Language Comprehension ✓
C) Phonemic Awareness and Phonics
D) Vocabulary and Background Knowledge
7. If a student has strong language comprehension but poor word recognition skills, the
Simple View of Reading would classify them as:
A) A typical reader
B) A student with dyslexia or a specific word recognition deficit ✓
C) A student with a specific comprehension deficit
D) A balanced reader
8. Scarborough's Reading Rope model illustrates that reading is comprised of two major
strands:
A) Phonics and Fluency
B) Word Recognition and Language Comprehension ✓
C) Decoding and Vocabulary
D) Phonology and Syntax
9. In Scarborough's Rope, which sub-skill falls under the "Language Comprehension" strand?
A) Decoding
B) Sight Word Recognition
C) Background Knowledge ✓
D) Phonological Awareness
10. The ability to read quickly, accurately, and with proper expression is known as:
A) Phonics
B) Reading Fluency ✓
C) Phonemic Awareness
D) Automaticity
11. A student who reads a passage with appropriate phrasing, pauses at commas, and
changes tone for questions is demonstrating good:
A) Accuracy
B) Prosody ✓
,C) Rate
D) Decoding
12. Which of the following is a key component of Concepts of Print?
A) Knowing all letter sounds.
B) Understanding that print carries meaning and reading moves left to right, top to bottom. ✓
C) Being able to segment words into syllables.
D) Having a large vocabulary.
13. A teacher asks a student, "Show me where I start reading on this page." The teacher is
assessing the student's:
A) Phonemic awareness
B) Concepts of print ✓
C) Phonics knowledge
D) Comprehension
14. The term "orthography" refers to:
A) The study of word meanings.
B) The spelling system of a language. ✓
C) The system of speech sounds.
D) The rules for structuring sentences.
15. Which factor is the single biggest predictor of reading success in the early grades?
A) Socioeconomic status
B) Phonological awareness ✓
C) Parental education level
D) The size of a child's vocabulary
Domain 2: Phonological Awareness, Phonemic Awareness, and Phonics
16. What is the difference between phonological awareness and phonemic awareness?
A) They are the same thing.
B) Phonological awareness is the umbrella term; phonemic awareness is the ability to
manipulate individual sounds. ✓
C) Phonemic awareness deals with syllables, while phonological awareness deals with individual
sounds.
D) Phonological awareness is for reading, and phonemic awareness is for spelling.
17. Which task is an example of an initial phonemic awareness skill?
A) Deleting the /s/ sound from "stop" to make "top."
B) Identifying whether the /p/ sound is in "pat" or "cat." ✓
, C) Counting the number of syllables in "hippopotamus."
D) Generating a rhyme for "bell."
18. A more advanced phonemic awareness task is:
A) Rhyming
B) Blending onset and rime (/c/ + /at/)
C) Phoneme substitution (changing the /h/ in "hat" to /c/) ✓
D) Identifying the first sound in a word
19. The most effective way to teach phonemic awareness is:
A) With worksheets and letter tiles only.
B) Through incidental exposure during read-alouds.
C) With explicit, systematic instruction in small groups. ✓
D) By having students memorize sight words.
20. Phonics instruction specifically teaches the relationship between:
A) Words and their meanings.
B) Graphemes (letters) and phonemes (sounds). ✓
C) Sentences and paragraphs.
D) Spoken syllables and clapping.
21. A student who sees the word "ship" and says /sh/ /i/ /p/ is using what skill?
A) Phonemic awareness
B) Decoding ✓
C) Encoding
D) Fluency
22. Which phonics approach teaches students to analyze letter-sound relationships in known
words?
A) Synthetic phonics
B) Analytic phonics ✓
C) Analogical phonics
D) Embedded phonics
23. A teacher using a synthetic phonics approach would:
A) Have students look for patterns in known words (e.g., "cat, hat, sat").
B) Start with a whole word and break it down into its parts.
C) Teach students to convert letters into sounds and then blend them to form a word. ✓
D) Teach phonics only as needed during reading activities.
