At Jackson Elementary, children are taught to read by making them learn to recognize entire words and sentences and to use the context of the words that are given in the text to guess their meaning. Their reading material consists of stories, poems, newspapers, and magazines. This school is using the ________ approach to reading instruction.
A) assisted-language
B) remedial-language
C) phonics
D) whole-language

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The approach used by Jackson Elementary is "whole-language" because they teach children to recognize entire words and sentences and use the context of the text to guess their meaning, rather than breaking down words into phonetic components (which is what the phonics approach does).

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