Elementary Reading Methods And Interventions - C909
WGU: Questions With Solutions
Focal skills Right Ans - retelling and describing characters.
Personal assets Right Ans - specific background information that
students bring to the learning environment. Students bring interests,
knowledge, everyday experiences, and family backgrounds that a teacher
can use to support learning.
Cultural assets Right Ans - cultural backgrounds and practices that
students bring to the learning environment, such as, traditions, languages,
world views, literature, and art that a teacher can use to support learning.
Community assets Right Ans - common backgrounds and experiences
that students bring from the community where they live, such as resources,
local landmarks, community events, and practices that a teacher can use to
support learning.
metacognition Right Ans - "Thinking about thinking" or the ability to
evaluate a cognitive task to determine how best to accomplish it, and then
to monitor and adjust one's performance on that task.
constructivism Right Ans - A philosophy of learning based on the
premise that people construct their own understanding of the world they
live in through reflection on experiences.
3 Phases of Construction-Integration Process Right Ans - construction,
integration, and metacognition.
construction phase Right Ans - lower-level processes such as: activating
prior knowledge, retrieving word meanings, etc.
integration phase Right Ans - ideas from text are connected with what
we already know, our prior knowledge, and new concepts that do not fit
with the meaning of the text are deleted from our network knowledge.
, metacognition phase Right Ans - a reader's awareness of how well he or
she is understanding the reading and a reader's ability to control his or her
own thinking.
constructivist theory Right Ans - Piaget's theoretical perspective that
children construct an understanding of their world based on observations
of the effects of their behaviors. Examples: reciprocal teaching/learning,
problem-based learning.
cognitive constructivist view of reading Right Ans - Reading is a process
in which the reader actively searches for meaning in what they read.
sociocultural theory Right Ans - the approach that emphasizes how
cognitive development proceeds as a result of social interactions between
members of a culture. Example: knowing people around you and their
family backgrounds.
reader response theory Right Ans - an approach to understanding
literature that focuses on the role of the reader in interpreting a story
rather than just relying upon the author's version.
experiential learning Right Ans - Learning from experiences.
Cognitivism Right Ans - A theory of learning. The idea is that learning is
a conscious, rational process. People learn by making models, maps and
frameworks in their mind. ~ is the opposite of behaviorism.
Oral Language Development Right Ans - the system through which we
use spoken words to express knowledge, ideas, and feelings.
Stages of writing development Right Ans - drawing, scribbling, letter
like symbols, strings in letter, beginning sounds emerge, consonants
represent words, initial, middle and final sounds, transitional, and standard
spelling.
conventional stage of writing development Right Ans - children spell
most words correctly, with reliance on phonics knowledge to spell longer
words.
WGU: Questions With Solutions
Focal skills Right Ans - retelling and describing characters.
Personal assets Right Ans - specific background information that
students bring to the learning environment. Students bring interests,
knowledge, everyday experiences, and family backgrounds that a teacher
can use to support learning.
Cultural assets Right Ans - cultural backgrounds and practices that
students bring to the learning environment, such as, traditions, languages,
world views, literature, and art that a teacher can use to support learning.
Community assets Right Ans - common backgrounds and experiences
that students bring from the community where they live, such as resources,
local landmarks, community events, and practices that a teacher can use to
support learning.
metacognition Right Ans - "Thinking about thinking" or the ability to
evaluate a cognitive task to determine how best to accomplish it, and then
to monitor and adjust one's performance on that task.
constructivism Right Ans - A philosophy of learning based on the
premise that people construct their own understanding of the world they
live in through reflection on experiences.
3 Phases of Construction-Integration Process Right Ans - construction,
integration, and metacognition.
construction phase Right Ans - lower-level processes such as: activating
prior knowledge, retrieving word meanings, etc.
integration phase Right Ans - ideas from text are connected with what
we already know, our prior knowledge, and new concepts that do not fit
with the meaning of the text are deleted from our network knowledge.
, metacognition phase Right Ans - a reader's awareness of how well he or
she is understanding the reading and a reader's ability to control his or her
own thinking.
constructivist theory Right Ans - Piaget's theoretical perspective that
children construct an understanding of their world based on observations
of the effects of their behaviors. Examples: reciprocal teaching/learning,
problem-based learning.
cognitive constructivist view of reading Right Ans - Reading is a process
in which the reader actively searches for meaning in what they read.
sociocultural theory Right Ans - the approach that emphasizes how
cognitive development proceeds as a result of social interactions between
members of a culture. Example: knowing people around you and their
family backgrounds.
reader response theory Right Ans - an approach to understanding
literature that focuses on the role of the reader in interpreting a story
rather than just relying upon the author's version.
experiential learning Right Ans - Learning from experiences.
Cognitivism Right Ans - A theory of learning. The idea is that learning is
a conscious, rational process. People learn by making models, maps and
frameworks in their mind. ~ is the opposite of behaviorism.
Oral Language Development Right Ans - the system through which we
use spoken words to express knowledge, ideas, and feelings.
Stages of writing development Right Ans - drawing, scribbling, letter
like symbols, strings in letter, beginning sounds emerge, consonants
represent words, initial, middle and final sounds, transitional, and standard
spelling.
conventional stage of writing development Right Ans - children spell
most words correctly, with reliance on phonics knowledge to spell longer
words.
