Rodney's First-Grade Teacher Exclusively Uses a Phonics Approach to Teaching

question 13

Multiple Choice

Rodney's first-grade teacher exclusively uses a phonics approach to teaching reading. She emphasizes decoding new words and learning the relationship between letters and sounds. With so much emphasis on basic skills, Rodney could

• A) become deficient in understanding the overall meaning of a passage.
• B) shift from learning to read to reading to learn.
• C) fail to master letter-sound correspondences.
• D) decrease his fluency in decoding words.

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