At Jackson Elementary, children are taught to read by learning to recognize entire words and sentences and to use the context words are used in the text to guess their meaning. Their reading material consists of stories, poems, and later, newspapers and magazines. This school is using the _____ approach to reading instruction.

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The description given in the statement aligns with the whole-language approach to reading instruction, which emphasizes learning words and sentences as a whole rather than breaking them down into smaller parts such as individual sounds (phonics approach). The use of context to understand meaning is also a key component of the whole-language approach.

At Jackson Elementary, Children Are Taught to Read by Learning