Essential Practices for Supporting Diverse
Learners – WGU D169 | 100% Correct
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Title III - ✔✔English learner instruction, Standardized testing rules ELs with exceptionalities
Which law requires states to develop programs that meet the specialized needs that students who are
ELs may bring to the classroom? - ✔✔Title III
English as a Second Language (ESL) or English Language Development (ELD) - ✔✔Program of techniques,
methodology, and special curriculum designed to teach ELs explicitly about the English language,
including the academic vocabulary needed to access content instruction, and to develop their English
language proficiency in all four language domains (i.e., speaking, listening, reading, and writing).
Structured English Immersion (SEI) - ✔✔Program designed to impart English language skills so that the
ELs can transition and succeed in an English-only mainstream classroom once proficient.
Title III requires schools to report on the number of ELs receiving services and their progress toward
________ and _________ - ✔✔language proficiency and content knowledge
Which practice may reduce inappropriate over or under-identification of ELs for special education
services? - ✔✔Consider the student's native literacy and language
ESSA permits native language testing if it is necessary, and students can be exempted from the reading
assessment during ___________ - ✔✔1st year in the country
What is WIDA? - ✔✔World-Class Instructional Design and Assessment
What areas includes standards promoted by WIDA for describing how ELs should use language? -
✔✔Social and instructional language along with academic language in mathematics, science, and social
studies
,Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA) - ✔✔This education law requires public schools to meet the
unique needs of eligible K-12 students with disabilities. Schools do this by providing services.
Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act - ✔✔This civil rights law prohibits disability discrimination at
schools that get federal funding. Schools meet these requirements by removing barriers to learning.
Which law provides 504 plans for eligible K-12 studetns? - ✔✔Section 504
Which law provides freedom from discrimination at work? - ✔✔ADA
What is a LRE? - ✔✔Least Restrictive Environment
What must an IEP include? - ✔✔goals, testing accommodations, present levels of performance, services,
modifications, and placement information
When LRE comes up, what two words come up also? - ✔✔mainstreaming and inclusion
What is a resource provided by Section 504? - ✔✔Accommodations or modifications due to a disability
What is an instruction is a type of program model in which an English language teacher works with ELs in
small groups to provide English language instruction, pulling them out of their regular classroom to do
so. - ✔✔pullout instruction
What is SLD? - ✔✔Specific Learning Disability
SLD affect a child's ability to ________ - ✔✔read, write, listen, speak, reason, or do math.
Emotional Disturbance includes _____________ - ✔✔anxiety, bipolar, OCD, schizophrenia, depression
, What category of disabilities does Dyslexia, dysgraphia, and dyscalculia fall under? - ✔✔Specific Learning
Disability
What disability category has the highest percentage of children served under IDEA? - ✔✔Specific
Learning Disability (SLD)
A high school special education student diagnosed with autism received special education services and
related support for social pragmatic (social skills) therapy from a speech-language pathologist. He
requires some academic support, primarily in written expression and task management, which happens
within the general education environment in a co-taught English class with an English teacher and his
assigned special education teacher. He also receives speech-language therapy twice per week. This
student's time out of the general education environment is minimal. Which type of educational
placement would this student receive, given his needs and the supports and services he receives? -
✔✔Modified general education class
Auditory Processing Disorder (APD) - ✔✔may have difficulty comprehending lectures or understanding
verbal directions.
dyslexia - ✔✔difficulty reading and recalling or using words
Dysgraphia - ✔✔A learning disability that involves difficulty in handwriting and spelling
Dyscalculia - ✔✔A learning disability that involves difficulty understanding or expressing number- and
math-related ideas
Dyspraxia - ✔✔difficulty with coordination—primarily physical but social skills can also be affected—that
originates in the brain
A student in your fourth-grade classroom has a very difficult time writing. She is slow to formulate
letters, and she often writes the letters in an unusual way. Her ability to answer questions orally is
outstanding. In class, a teacher's assistant often acts as her scribe. Which type of learning disability does
this student display characteristics of? - ✔✔Dysgraphia
Learners – WGU D169 | 100% Correct
Answers | Verified | Latest 2024 Version
Title III - ✔✔English learner instruction, Standardized testing rules ELs with exceptionalities
Which law requires states to develop programs that meet the specialized needs that students who are
ELs may bring to the classroom? - ✔✔Title III
English as a Second Language (ESL) or English Language Development (ELD) - ✔✔Program of techniques,
methodology, and special curriculum designed to teach ELs explicitly about the English language,
including the academic vocabulary needed to access content instruction, and to develop their English
language proficiency in all four language domains (i.e., speaking, listening, reading, and writing).
Structured English Immersion (SEI) - ✔✔Program designed to impart English language skills so that the
ELs can transition and succeed in an English-only mainstream classroom once proficient.
Title III requires schools to report on the number of ELs receiving services and their progress toward
________ and _________ - ✔✔language proficiency and content knowledge
Which practice may reduce inappropriate over or under-identification of ELs for special education
services? - ✔✔Consider the student's native literacy and language
ESSA permits native language testing if it is necessary, and students can be exempted from the reading
assessment during ___________ - ✔✔1st year in the country
What is WIDA? - ✔✔World-Class Instructional Design and Assessment
What areas includes standards promoted by WIDA for describing how ELs should use language? -
✔✔Social and instructional language along with academic language in mathematics, science, and social
studies
,Individuals with Disabilities Act (IDEA) - ✔✔This education law requires public schools to meet the
unique needs of eligible K-12 students with disabilities. Schools do this by providing services.
Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act - ✔✔This civil rights law prohibits disability discrimination at
schools that get federal funding. Schools meet these requirements by removing barriers to learning.
Which law provides 504 plans for eligible K-12 studetns? - ✔✔Section 504
Which law provides freedom from discrimination at work? - ✔✔ADA
What is a LRE? - ✔✔Least Restrictive Environment
What must an IEP include? - ✔✔goals, testing accommodations, present levels of performance, services,
modifications, and placement information
When LRE comes up, what two words come up also? - ✔✔mainstreaming and inclusion
What is a resource provided by Section 504? - ✔✔Accommodations or modifications due to a disability
What is an instruction is a type of program model in which an English language teacher works with ELs in
small groups to provide English language instruction, pulling them out of their regular classroom to do
so. - ✔✔pullout instruction
What is SLD? - ✔✔Specific Learning Disability
SLD affect a child's ability to ________ - ✔✔read, write, listen, speak, reason, or do math.
Emotional Disturbance includes _____________ - ✔✔anxiety, bipolar, OCD, schizophrenia, depression
, What category of disabilities does Dyslexia, dysgraphia, and dyscalculia fall under? - ✔✔Specific Learning
Disability
What disability category has the highest percentage of children served under IDEA? - ✔✔Specific
Learning Disability (SLD)
A high school special education student diagnosed with autism received special education services and
related support for social pragmatic (social skills) therapy from a speech-language pathologist. He
requires some academic support, primarily in written expression and task management, which happens
within the general education environment in a co-taught English class with an English teacher and his
assigned special education teacher. He also receives speech-language therapy twice per week. This
student's time out of the general education environment is minimal. Which type of educational
placement would this student receive, given his needs and the supports and services he receives? -
✔✔Modified general education class
Auditory Processing Disorder (APD) - ✔✔may have difficulty comprehending lectures or understanding
verbal directions.
dyslexia - ✔✔difficulty reading and recalling or using words
Dysgraphia - ✔✔A learning disability that involves difficulty in handwriting and spelling
Dyscalculia - ✔✔A learning disability that involves difficulty understanding or expressing number- and
math-related ideas
Dyspraxia - ✔✔difficulty with coordination—primarily physical but social skills can also be affected—that
originates in the brain
A student in your fourth-grade classroom has a very difficult time writing. She is slow to formulate
letters, and she often writes the letters in an unusual way. Her ability to answer questions orally is
outstanding. In class, a teacher's assistant often acts as her scribe. Which type of learning disability does
this student display characteristics of? - ✔✔Dysgraphia
