Louise Is Teaching Her Son to Read by Helping Him

question 107

Multiple Choice

Louise is teaching her son to read by helping him sound out letters. She also plays a cartoon where the characters repeat the sounds of each letter. Watching her and the characters in the cartoon pronounce the letters, her son makes the effort to read aloud some of the letters. What approach is Louise using to teach her son?

• A) the whole-language approach
• B) the phonics approach
• C) the balanced-instruction approach
• D) the morphological approach

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