WGU C910 Elementary Reading Methods and Interventions
Problem Solving Exam Questions and certified for accuracy
solutions; updated 2025/2026
Achieving automatic word recognition
Vitally important because automatically is a prerequisite for fluency
Fluency
Ability to "read a text orally with speed, accuracy, expression and comprehension" -read
aloud, readers theater
Construction-integration model
Process begins with construction, in which the reader comprehends sentences and then
links ideas from one sentence to another. Integration is the process of using prior
knowledge to expand and interpret the meaning the author has put on the pages.
Metacognition
Thinking about one's thinking. More precisely, it refers to the processes used to plan,
monitor, and assess one's understanding and performance.
Strategies
When meaning breaks down a reader can make inferences, ask questions, summarize,
search for important ideas, or sound out words
Textbase (help readers relate ideas to each other)
Retelling, summarizing,
Mental model (relates text ideas to prior knowledge)
Predicting, inferences, connections, questioning
Metacognition (Helps reader monitor & repair comprehension)
Questioning, clarifying, predicting, re-reading
Schema theory
,Concerned with knowledge, particularly with the way knowledge is represented in our
minds, how we use that knowledge, and how it expands (folders, pictures, designs)
Schema is thinking about what we already know
Schemata
Knowledge is packaged in organized structures (objects, situations, events, sequences
of events,)
Reading comprehension
Process of simultaneously extracting and constructing meaning through interaction and
involvement with written language
Comprehension entails three elements:
The reader who is doing the comprehending
• The text that is to be comprehended
• The activity in which comprehension is a part
Reader Response Theory
The belief that responsibility for constructing textual meaning resides primarily with the
reader and depends to a great extent on the reader's prior knowledge and experience
Sociocultural theory
That learning is viewed as an active and constructive task and what is learned is viewed
as subjective. Social and cultural backgrounds of students have a huge and undeniable
effect on their learning
Active teaching
Teaching characterized by high levels of teaching explanation, demonstration, and
interaction with students
Proactive teaching
, Showing students how to do something before expecting them to do it themselves.
Success.
Reactive teaching
First asking students to do something and then showing them how only when they
struggle (sets up for failure).
Gradual Release of Responsibility Model
Instructional cycle during which students learn new skills and knowledge and gradually
assume increased responsibility for learning.
Direct Explanation
Approach to teaching strategies that employs direct instruction, and a gradual release of
responsibility.
Scaffolding
Temporary support that is tailored to a learner's needs and abilities and aimed at helping
the learner master the next task in a given learning process
Zone of proximal development
Emphasizes the social nature of learning and the fact that learning is very much a social
phenomenon
Basal Reader
A kind of book that is used to teach reading. It is based on an approach in which words
are used as a whole. The words are used over and over in each succeeding lesson.
New words are added regularly.
Constructivism
A philosophy of learning based on the premise that people construct their own
understanding of the world they live in through reflection on experiences
Cognitivism
The psychology of learning which emphasizes human cognition or intelligence as a
special endowment enabling man to form hypotheses and develop intellectually
Problem Solving Exam Questions and certified for accuracy
solutions; updated 2025/2026
Achieving automatic word recognition
Vitally important because automatically is a prerequisite for fluency
Fluency
Ability to "read a text orally with speed, accuracy, expression and comprehension" -read
aloud, readers theater
Construction-integration model
Process begins with construction, in which the reader comprehends sentences and then
links ideas from one sentence to another. Integration is the process of using prior
knowledge to expand and interpret the meaning the author has put on the pages.
Metacognition
Thinking about one's thinking. More precisely, it refers to the processes used to plan,
monitor, and assess one's understanding and performance.
Strategies
When meaning breaks down a reader can make inferences, ask questions, summarize,
search for important ideas, or sound out words
Textbase (help readers relate ideas to each other)
Retelling, summarizing,
Mental model (relates text ideas to prior knowledge)
Predicting, inferences, connections, questioning
Metacognition (Helps reader monitor & repair comprehension)
Questioning, clarifying, predicting, re-reading
Schema theory
,Concerned with knowledge, particularly with the way knowledge is represented in our
minds, how we use that knowledge, and how it expands (folders, pictures, designs)
Schema is thinking about what we already know
Schemata
Knowledge is packaged in organized structures (objects, situations, events, sequences
of events,)
Reading comprehension
Process of simultaneously extracting and constructing meaning through interaction and
involvement with written language
Comprehension entails three elements:
The reader who is doing the comprehending
• The text that is to be comprehended
• The activity in which comprehension is a part
Reader Response Theory
The belief that responsibility for constructing textual meaning resides primarily with the
reader and depends to a great extent on the reader's prior knowledge and experience
Sociocultural theory
That learning is viewed as an active and constructive task and what is learned is viewed
as subjective. Social and cultural backgrounds of students have a huge and undeniable
effect on their learning
Active teaching
Teaching characterized by high levels of teaching explanation, demonstration, and
interaction with students
Proactive teaching
, Showing students how to do something before expecting them to do it themselves.
Success.
Reactive teaching
First asking students to do something and then showing them how only when they
struggle (sets up for failure).
Gradual Release of Responsibility Model
Instructional cycle during which students learn new skills and knowledge and gradually
assume increased responsibility for learning.
Direct Explanation
Approach to teaching strategies that employs direct instruction, and a gradual release of
responsibility.
Scaffolding
Temporary support that is tailored to a learner's needs and abilities and aimed at helping
the learner master the next task in a given learning process
Zone of proximal development
Emphasizes the social nature of learning and the fact that learning is very much a social
phenomenon
Basal Reader
A kind of book that is used to teach reading. It is based on an approach in which words
are used as a whole. The words are used over and over in each succeeding lesson.
New words are added regularly.
Constructivism
A philosophy of learning based on the premise that people construct their own
understanding of the world they live in through reflection on experiences
Cognitivism
The psychology of learning which emphasizes human cognition or intelligence as a
special endowment enabling man to form hypotheses and develop intellectually
