WGU D096 PRACTICE EXAM QUESTIONS
AND DETAILED SOLUTIONS 2026
▶ 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
, 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.
AND DETAILED SOLUTIONS 2026
▶ 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
, 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.
