Once students have mastered the basic skills, the major focus of decoding instruction is helping students:
A) learn less frequent consonant combinations.
B) gain more independence as they meet an increasing number of words that are not in their oral vocabularies.
C) read faster.
D) increase their oral vocabularies.

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Once students have mastered the basic skills of decoding, the major focus shifts to helping students gain more independence as they encounter an increasing number of words that are not in their oral vocabularies. This involves teaching students how to use context clues, word roots, and prefixes/suffixes to decipher unfamiliar words. While learning less frequent consonant combinations and increasing oral vocabularies may be important components of reading instruction, they are not the main focus of decoding instruction once basic skills have been mastered. Reading faster may also be a goal, but not at the expense of accuracy and comprehension.

Once Students Have Mastered the Basic Skills, the Major Focus