Correct Response: C. Targeted instruction focused on enhancing the student's ability to attend to all parts of words during decoding is responsive to the typical errors the student makes in the assessment. In the representative sample, the student accurately reads most of the words. The student also reads the beginnings of longer, morphologically complex words accurately (i.e., correctly decoding the first morpheme in the compound word overturn and the complex word disappear) but misreads the remaining portion of both words. In each case, the student guesses the word based on its first syllable rather than decoding all parts of the word. Options A, B, and D are incorrect because they identify reading skills that the student clearly has already mastered, as evidenced in the representative sample. The student demonstrates comprehension monitoring by self-correcting in real time when word-reading errors do not make sense in the context (A). The student also demonstrates good comprehension and command of reading and oral vocabulary (B). Finally, the student demonstrates competence when tracking connected text by reading words in order across lines and from line to line (D) in the representative sample.
