Miss Hausler Is Teaching Her First Graders to Read

Multiple Choice

Miss Hausler is teaching her first graders to read. She believes that reading should be meaningful from the very beginning of reading instruction, so she teaches her students not to try to sound out every word but to look for cues in the text, pictures, and story language for ideas about unknown words as they work their way through an entire piece of text. This method of reading instruction is known as the __________ approach.

A) letter-sound
B) code-based
C) whole-language
D) balanced literacy