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.

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Connor's method of focusing on memorizing sound-letter correspondences and asking students to pronounce unfamiliar words based on these correspondences aligns with the phonetic (code-emphasis) approach to teaching reading. This approach emphasizes the understanding of the relationship between letters and sounds to decode words.

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