WGU D096 CERTIFICATION EXAM
QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS 2026
▶ What Age is progress monitoring usually used for? Answer: Elementary
students. But it can be conducted effectively at any age.
▶ CBM (Curriculum Based Measurement) Answer: Includes instruments or
probes.
Has a short sample from the curriculum.
Includes items from across the curriculum to provide a representative
indicator of the students skills.
It provides immediate info about how the student is mastering skills being
taught at the moment.
▶ What is the major difference between Tier 2 and 3 of support in MTSS
Answer: Tier 3 provides more instructional time but it also provides smaller
groups.
Targets precise objectives at appropriate levels, systematic instruction,
extensive opportunities for practices, and increased error correction and
feedback opportunities.
▶ Tier 3 level of support Answer: --Intensive--
The most intensive level of support provided (in addition to tier 1).
This intervention is geared toward skill growth and acquisition much more
narrowly focused.
▶ Tier 2 level of support Answer: --Targeted--
Small group intervention provided to students in addition to tier 1 support (
Targeted areas of need)
▶ Tier 1 level of support Answer: --Core--
Whole class instruction using evidence-based general education strategies
▶ What is one function of the home language survey for language students
Answer: Determines the potential need for a language assistance program
,▶ Once students are ID'd as potential EL's what is the process? Answer:
They must be assessed with a valid and reliable assessment to determine
if they qualify for EL services
▶ A teacher observes disruptive behavior among a number of students,
what should she do? Answer: Reduce long delays between activities to
hold students attention
▶ What type of differentiation is address in an IEP where a student need to
sit near the teacher in the first or second row? Answer: Environment
▶ What curriculum adjustment will help students who are bored in class?
Answer: Adjust assignments to include student interest
▶ What is a student able to do in Early Production? Answer: Basic vocab
Know up to 1000 words
▶ What differentiation method is a teacher using when offering reading
materials at different reading levels to students? Answer: Content
▶ What is a student able to do in the preproduction stage? Answer:
Practice pronouncing words
Basic vocab
Know up to 500 words
▶ Stages of Second Language Acquisition Answer: 1. Preproduction
2. Early Production
3. Speech Emergence
4. Intermediate Fluency
5. Advanced Fluency
▶ Explicit Instruction Answer: An instructional strategy that emphasizes
group instruction. The instruction offered should include a great deal of
teacher-student interactivity.
The teacher models the behaviors taught
▶ Explicit instruction and implicit instruction Answer: Two distinct methods
of providing instruction to diverse students and these are used for various
student groups depending on the functioning level and the subject area
, ▶ Systematic Instruction Answer: A carefully planned sequence for
instruction, similar to a builder's blueprint for a house. A blueprint is
carefully thought out and designed before building materials are gathered
and construction begins. The plan for instruction that is systematic is
carefully thought out, strategic, and designed before activities and lessons
are planned. Instruction is across the five components (phonemic
awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension). For
systematic instruction, lessons build on previously taught information, from
simple to complex.
▶ 3 characteristics of systematic instruction Answer: Goal based
Supported and scaffolded
Logically sequenced
▶ 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
QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS 2026
▶ What Age is progress monitoring usually used for? Answer: Elementary
students. But it can be conducted effectively at any age.
▶ CBM (Curriculum Based Measurement) Answer: Includes instruments or
probes.
Has a short sample from the curriculum.
Includes items from across the curriculum to provide a representative
indicator of the students skills.
It provides immediate info about how the student is mastering skills being
taught at the moment.
▶ What is the major difference between Tier 2 and 3 of support in MTSS
Answer: Tier 3 provides more instructional time but it also provides smaller
groups.
Targets precise objectives at appropriate levels, systematic instruction,
extensive opportunities for practices, and increased error correction and
feedback opportunities.
▶ Tier 3 level of support Answer: --Intensive--
The most intensive level of support provided (in addition to tier 1).
This intervention is geared toward skill growth and acquisition much more
narrowly focused.
▶ Tier 2 level of support Answer: --Targeted--
Small group intervention provided to students in addition to tier 1 support (
Targeted areas of need)
▶ Tier 1 level of support Answer: --Core--
Whole class instruction using evidence-based general education strategies
▶ What is one function of the home language survey for language students
Answer: Determines the potential need for a language assistance program
,▶ Once students are ID'd as potential EL's what is the process? Answer:
They must be assessed with a valid and reliable assessment to determine
if they qualify for EL services
▶ A teacher observes disruptive behavior among a number of students,
what should she do? Answer: Reduce long delays between activities to
hold students attention
▶ What type of differentiation is address in an IEP where a student need to
sit near the teacher in the first or second row? Answer: Environment
▶ What curriculum adjustment will help students who are bored in class?
Answer: Adjust assignments to include student interest
▶ What is a student able to do in Early Production? Answer: Basic vocab
Know up to 1000 words
▶ What differentiation method is a teacher using when offering reading
materials at different reading levels to students? Answer: Content
▶ What is a student able to do in the preproduction stage? Answer:
Practice pronouncing words
Basic vocab
Know up to 500 words
▶ Stages of Second Language Acquisition Answer: 1. Preproduction
2. Early Production
3. Speech Emergence
4. Intermediate Fluency
5. Advanced Fluency
▶ Explicit Instruction Answer: An instructional strategy that emphasizes
group instruction. The instruction offered should include a great deal of
teacher-student interactivity.
The teacher models the behaviors taught
▶ Explicit instruction and implicit instruction Answer: Two distinct methods
of providing instruction to diverse students and these are used for various
student groups depending on the functioning level and the subject area
, ▶ Systematic Instruction Answer: A carefully planned sequence for
instruction, similar to a builder's blueprint for a house. A blueprint is
carefully thought out and designed before building materials are gathered
and construction begins. The plan for instruction that is systematic is
carefully thought out, strategic, and designed before activities and lessons
are planned. Instruction is across the five components (phonemic
awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension). For
systematic instruction, lessons build on previously taught information, from
simple to complex.
▶ 3 characteristics of systematic instruction Answer: Goal based
Supported and scaffolded
Logically sequenced
▶ 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
