Connor, a First-Grade Teacher, Teaches His Students How to Read

Multiple Choice

Connor, a first-grade teacher, teaches his students how to read by assigning them tasks that focus on memorizing sound-letter correspondences. He asks his students to pronounce the unfamiliar word "collaboration" and translate it from print to speech. In this scenario, Connor is

A) utilizing various contextual cues to help the students read.
B) emphasizing visual retrieval, which helps the students read.
C) using the whole-language approach to teaching reading.
D) using the phonetic (code-emphasis) approach to teaching reading.