A second-grade teacher asks a student to read several written words and then to read a paragraph containing each word. While assessing the student's reading skills, she notices he does better reading the paragraph than he does reading the words individually. Which of the following best describes the student's reading abilities?
A)The student has poor individual word decoding skills.
B)The student does well recognizing context cues.
C)The student does not recognize semantic cues.
D)Both A and B

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The student who can read the paragraph better than the individual words has poor individual word decoding skills but a strong ability to recognize context cues. The other words in the paragraph create a "fill-in-the-blank" effect, making it easier to decipher the words than it is to decipher them without any surrounding cues.

A Second-Grade Teacher Asks a Student to Read Several Written