One portion of an oral reading from an informal reading inventory (IRI) passage revealed the following miscue: TEXT: But all she saw were the cars and trucks racing along the busy road. STUDENT: But all she saw were the cars and trucks raising along the busy road. Which of the following language cue systems are being used by the student?
A) Only graphophonemic (visual)
B) Graphophonemic and syntactic
C) Only syntactic (structure)
D) Semantic and syntactic

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The student substituted "raising" for "racing," indicating a graphophonemic (visual) error. However, the substitution also resulted in an incorrect sentence structure (syntactic error). Therefore, both the graphophonemic and syntactic cue systems were used by the student.

One Portion of an Oral Reading from an Informal Reading