WGU D096 ACTUAL EXAM QUESTIONS AND
COMPLETE STUDY GUIDE 2026
▶ Progress Monitoring Answer: Tests that keep the teacher informed
about the child's progress in learning to read during the school year. They
are a quick sample of critical reading skills that will tell the teacher if the
child is making adequate progress toward grade level reading ability at the
end of the year.
▶ Curriculum Based Measurement Answer: Used to measure the growth
of student's proficiency in the core skills that contribute to success in school
▶ Differentiated Instruction Answer: Practice of individualizing instructional
methods, and possibly also individualizing specific content and instructional
goals, to align with each student's existing knowledge, skills, and needs.
▶ Differentiated assessment Answer: Allows more accurate measurement
of what students know, it can provide valuable information about learning
profiles and preferences.
▶ Speech Emergence Answer: Continues gaining vocabulary,
communicates using words with high semantic context, nouns, verbs, and
adjectives, understands more than they can communicate, more effectively
in face-to-face interactions.
knows up to 3000 words
▶ Co-teaching Answer: In co-teaching arrangements, two or more
teachers teach together in the same classroom where students benefit from
each teacher's specialty (e.g., a regular and a special education teacher
working with regular students and students with a specific disability such as
hearing impairments).
▶ Acculturation Answer: The adoption of cultural traits, such as language,
by one group under the influence of another.
,▶ Retention Answer: Refers to the ability to keep aspects of ones culture,
while adjusting to a new culture
▶ The most common issue with implementing co-teaching effectively in
school? Answer: Lack of planning time
▶ Team Teaching Answer: Teachers share the responsibility for two or
more classes, dividing up the subject areas between them.
Only 1 teacher speaks at a time
▶ Collaborative teaching Answer: General Ed and Special Ed teachers
working
together to meet the needs of special needs
students
▶ Alternative co-teaching Answer: Allows a teacher to specifically target
the terminology or concept, before moving on to the next portion of class
time, i.e. lab work
▶ 2 ways teachers can intentionally lessen implicit biases in the classroom
Answer: 1. Make connections with people from cultures other than their
own
2. Model how to talk about culture and diversity in a positive and
transformative way
▶ Implicit bias Answer: A hidden, automatic attitude that may guide
behaviors independent of a person's awareness or control
▶ Assimilation Answer: The social process of absorbing one cultural group
into harmony with another
▶ Cultural Transition Answer: Individuals entering a new culture and the
natural changes that take place within that transition.
▶ Formative Assessment Answer: Assessment used throughout teaching
of a lesson and/or unit to gauge students' understanding and inform and
guide teaching
▶ 4 characteristics of feedback for students Answer: Timely
Respectful
, Constructive
Goal-Oriented
▶ Scaffolding Answer: Adjusting the support offered during a teaching
session to fit the child's current level of performance
It is an important part of systematic instruction
▶ Which instructional strategy should a teacher use to begin a lesson when
unsure about how much students already know? Answer: Build students
background knowledge
▶ Differentiation Answer: Involves adapting instruction to meet the needs
of each learner
▶ Task analysis Answer: The process of breaking a complex skill or series
of behaviors into smaller, teachable units; also refers to the results of this
process.
▶ Systematic Instruction Answer: Teaching that involves instructional
prompts, consequences, or reinforcement, for performance, and transfer of
stimulus control. It is usually used with individuals in SPED
▶ Why would a teacher use visual cues, timers, and checklists for students
with ADHD and those who are easily frustrated or distracted? Answer:
Because the teacher knows some students behaviors are due to a disability
or boredom in the classroom
▶ Equity Answer: The state or quality of being just, fair, or impartial; fair
and equal treatment; something that is fair
▶ Equity Pedagogy Answer: The use of teaching techniques that facilitate
the academic success of students from different ethnic and social class
groups
▶ What is the fundamental cultural purpose of language outside of
communication? Answer: Identity
▶ What is a characteristic of students who are learning a second language
Answer: Students who practice the second language in academic settings
learn the academic language faster.
COMPLETE STUDY GUIDE 2026
▶ Progress Monitoring Answer: Tests that keep the teacher informed
about the child's progress in learning to read during the school year. They
are a quick sample of critical reading skills that will tell the teacher if the
child is making adequate progress toward grade level reading ability at the
end of the year.
▶ Curriculum Based Measurement Answer: Used to measure the growth
of student's proficiency in the core skills that contribute to success in school
▶ Differentiated Instruction Answer: Practice of individualizing instructional
methods, and possibly also individualizing specific content and instructional
goals, to align with each student's existing knowledge, skills, and needs.
▶ Differentiated assessment Answer: Allows more accurate measurement
of what students know, it can provide valuable information about learning
profiles and preferences.
▶ Speech Emergence Answer: Continues gaining vocabulary,
communicates using words with high semantic context, nouns, verbs, and
adjectives, understands more than they can communicate, more effectively
in face-to-face interactions.
knows up to 3000 words
▶ Co-teaching Answer: In co-teaching arrangements, two or more
teachers teach together in the same classroom where students benefit from
each teacher's specialty (e.g., a regular and a special education teacher
working with regular students and students with a specific disability such as
hearing impairments).
▶ Acculturation Answer: The adoption of cultural traits, such as language,
by one group under the influence of another.
,▶ Retention Answer: Refers to the ability to keep aspects of ones culture,
while adjusting to a new culture
▶ The most common issue with implementing co-teaching effectively in
school? Answer: Lack of planning time
▶ Team Teaching Answer: Teachers share the responsibility for two or
more classes, dividing up the subject areas between them.
Only 1 teacher speaks at a time
▶ Collaborative teaching Answer: General Ed and Special Ed teachers
working
together to meet the needs of special needs
students
▶ Alternative co-teaching Answer: Allows a teacher to specifically target
the terminology or concept, before moving on to the next portion of class
time, i.e. lab work
▶ 2 ways teachers can intentionally lessen implicit biases in the classroom
Answer: 1. Make connections with people from cultures other than their
own
2. Model how to talk about culture and diversity in a positive and
transformative way
▶ Implicit bias Answer: A hidden, automatic attitude that may guide
behaviors independent of a person's awareness or control
▶ Assimilation Answer: The social process of absorbing one cultural group
into harmony with another
▶ Cultural Transition Answer: Individuals entering a new culture and the
natural changes that take place within that transition.
▶ Formative Assessment Answer: Assessment used throughout teaching
of a lesson and/or unit to gauge students' understanding and inform and
guide teaching
▶ 4 characteristics of feedback for students Answer: Timely
Respectful
, Constructive
Goal-Oriented
▶ Scaffolding Answer: Adjusting the support offered during a teaching
session to fit the child's current level of performance
It is an important part of systematic instruction
▶ Which instructional strategy should a teacher use to begin a lesson when
unsure about how much students already know? Answer: Build students
background knowledge
▶ Differentiation Answer: Involves adapting instruction to meet the needs
of each learner
▶ Task analysis Answer: The process of breaking a complex skill or series
of behaviors into smaller, teachable units; also refers to the results of this
process.
▶ Systematic Instruction Answer: Teaching that involves instructional
prompts, consequences, or reinforcement, for performance, and transfer of
stimulus control. It is usually used with individuals in SPED
▶ Why would a teacher use visual cues, timers, and checklists for students
with ADHD and those who are easily frustrated or distracted? Answer:
Because the teacher knows some students behaviors are due to a disability
or boredom in the classroom
▶ Equity Answer: The state or quality of being just, fair, or impartial; fair
and equal treatment; something that is fair
▶ Equity Pedagogy Answer: The use of teaching techniques that facilitate
the academic success of students from different ethnic and social class
groups
▶ What is the fundamental cultural purpose of language outside of
communication? Answer: Identity
▶ What is a characteristic of students who are learning a second language
Answer: Students who practice the second language in academic settings
learn the academic language faster.
