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

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.