WGU D152 OA study set questions with
verified answers
(select the appropriate instructional strategy.)
Ms. Williams might teach Maria to use her hand to retell a story by assigning a
story element to each finger such as thumb (characters), index finger (setting),
etc. Ans✓✓✓ Summarize and paraphrase
(select the appropriate instructional strategy.)
Ms. Williams uses the TELLS fact or fiction strategy with Maria. Ans✓✓✓ Activate
prior knowledge
(select the appropriate instructional strategy.)
To help Maria stay actively engaged when she is reading, Ms. Williams will teach
Maria how to ask herself questions while she reads a text. Ans✓✓✓ Promote
self-generated questions
(select the appropriate instructional strategy.)
To help Maria think about details in the story, Ms. Williams will often provide a
graphic organizer that requires Maria to write down story details. Ans✓✓✓ story
maps
(Strategies for Implementing Approaches to Reading)
,Implement and Adapt Basal Textbook Approaches Ans✓✓✓ textbooks contain
short stories and comprehension questions designed to meet certain grade-level
criteria. Some basal textbooks emphasize phonics; others highlight literature-
based stories.
Most basal reading series include workbooks and worksheets that provide
supplemental practice on comprehension and specific skills.
(Strategies for Implementing Approaches to Reading)
Implement and Adapt Direct-Instruction and Code-Emphasis Approaches
Ans✓✓✓ Direct instruction involves a systematic, teacher-led approach using
materials that contain a controlled vocabulary and emphasizing a code-emphasis
approach to reading instruction.
(Strategies for Implementing Approaches to Reading)
Implement and Adapt Whole-Language Approaches Ans✓✓✓ During whole-
language instruction, students engage in reading authentic literature (e.g., trade
books, real literature books) the emphasis is placed on engaging students in
literacy acts and promoting meaning
(Strategies for Implementing Approaches to Reading)
Implement Reading Recovery for Struggling Readers Ans✓✓✓ Reading Recovery
identifies primary-age students who are not learning to read and provides them
with one-to-one tutorial instruction for 30 minutes daily. Sessions emphasize
reading from familiar books, instruction in letter-identification strategies, writing
, and reading sentences and stories, assembling cut-up stories, and introducing the
process of reading a new book.
(Strategies for Implementing Approaches to Reading)
Make Adaptations to Promote Access to Text Ans✓✓✓ -Ensure that students are
seated properly
-Provide color contrasts—for example, with colored construction paper—for
students with visual impairments.
-For students who have difficulty turning pages, provide rubber fingertips
-Pages in electronic tablets can be easily turned with a touch of a finger.
-printed materials with braille or large print; use of magnifying devices; and use of
optical character-recognition
-text to speech
-audio-recording formats, including audio-recorded text, variable-speed cassettes
and speech compressors, and listening centers.
7 Dimensions of Taxonomy of Intervention Intensity Ans✓✓✓ 1. Strength (How
well the program works for students with intensive intervention needs, expressed
in terms of effect sizes)
2. Dosage (The number of opportunities a student has to respond and receive
corrective feedback)
3. Alignment (how well the intervention matches the targeted academic skills or
behaviors of concern)
4. Attention to transfer (The extent to which an intervention is designed to help
students (a) transfer the skills they learn to other formats and contexts and (b)
realize connections between mastered and related skills.)
verified answers
(select the appropriate instructional strategy.)
Ms. Williams might teach Maria to use her hand to retell a story by assigning a
story element to each finger such as thumb (characters), index finger (setting),
etc. Ans✓✓✓ Summarize and paraphrase
(select the appropriate instructional strategy.)
Ms. Williams uses the TELLS fact or fiction strategy with Maria. Ans✓✓✓ Activate
prior knowledge
(select the appropriate instructional strategy.)
To help Maria stay actively engaged when she is reading, Ms. Williams will teach
Maria how to ask herself questions while she reads a text. Ans✓✓✓ Promote
self-generated questions
(select the appropriate instructional strategy.)
To help Maria think about details in the story, Ms. Williams will often provide a
graphic organizer that requires Maria to write down story details. Ans✓✓✓ story
maps
(Strategies for Implementing Approaches to Reading)
,Implement and Adapt Basal Textbook Approaches Ans✓✓✓ textbooks contain
short stories and comprehension questions designed to meet certain grade-level
criteria. Some basal textbooks emphasize phonics; others highlight literature-
based stories.
Most basal reading series include workbooks and worksheets that provide
supplemental practice on comprehension and specific skills.
(Strategies for Implementing Approaches to Reading)
Implement and Adapt Direct-Instruction and Code-Emphasis Approaches
Ans✓✓✓ Direct instruction involves a systematic, teacher-led approach using
materials that contain a controlled vocabulary and emphasizing a code-emphasis
approach to reading instruction.
(Strategies for Implementing Approaches to Reading)
Implement and Adapt Whole-Language Approaches Ans✓✓✓ During whole-
language instruction, students engage in reading authentic literature (e.g., trade
books, real literature books) the emphasis is placed on engaging students in
literacy acts and promoting meaning
(Strategies for Implementing Approaches to Reading)
Implement Reading Recovery for Struggling Readers Ans✓✓✓ Reading Recovery
identifies primary-age students who are not learning to read and provides them
with one-to-one tutorial instruction for 30 minutes daily. Sessions emphasize
reading from familiar books, instruction in letter-identification strategies, writing
, and reading sentences and stories, assembling cut-up stories, and introducing the
process of reading a new book.
(Strategies for Implementing Approaches to Reading)
Make Adaptations to Promote Access to Text Ans✓✓✓ -Ensure that students are
seated properly
-Provide color contrasts—for example, with colored construction paper—for
students with visual impairments.
-For students who have difficulty turning pages, provide rubber fingertips
-Pages in electronic tablets can be easily turned with a touch of a finger.
-printed materials with braille or large print; use of magnifying devices; and use of
optical character-recognition
-text to speech
-audio-recording formats, including audio-recorded text, variable-speed cassettes
and speech compressors, and listening centers.
7 Dimensions of Taxonomy of Intervention Intensity Ans✓✓✓ 1. Strength (How
well the program works for students with intensive intervention needs, expressed
in terms of effect sizes)
2. Dosage (The number of opportunities a student has to respond and receive
corrective feedback)
3. Alignment (how well the intervention matches the targeted academic skills or
behaviors of concern)
4. Attention to transfer (The extent to which an intervention is designed to help
students (a) transfer the skills they learn to other formats and contexts and (b)
realize connections between mastered and related skills.)
