Which word group might a teacher include in a lesson focused on reviewing consonant digraphs? {Ans: phone, throne, shown}Which statement best describes the relationship between reading comprehension and word decoding in a beginning reader's development? {Ans: Accurate, fast word recognition is necessary for development of reading fluency and text comprehension.}Having students listen to a word, say it, and then mentally reverse the sounds in the word is an instructional activity that would be most appropriate for which students? {Ans: those who have mastered basic phonemic awareness}Which three letters could signal that c is pronounced /s/? {Ans: i, e, y}Students with relative weaknesses in basic phonemic awareness are most likely to make progress if the teacher provides which practice? {Ans: asks students to look in a mirror while they describe the way that target phonemes are formed in the mouth}Which of the following tasks would best provide practice for automating letter recognition in kindergarteners? {Ans: naming uppercase and lowercase printed letters in random order}