Which approach emphasizes learning from part to whole and begins with a phonics approach?

• A. Cues
• B. Bottom Up
• C. Anchor Book
• D. Consonant Diagraphs

Answer: (B)

The key idea is learning to read by building from the smallest units up. This bottom-up approach starts with decoding—teaching sounds and the letter-sound relationships, how to blend those sounds to form words, and then using those words to read sentences and understand meaning. Because the prompt specifies beginning with a phonics approach, this fits best: students first learn to decode, then piece those decodings into larger chunks of text and meaning.

Context that helps it click: when instruction focuses on phonics first, students gain reliable word recognition, which makes it easier to comprehend what they read later. This contrasts with methods that try to extract meaning from text before students can fluently decode, or rely mainly on context clues. The other options point to different tools or strategies (like cueing for predicting from context, or using specific phonics elements or anchor texts), but they don’t describe a whole approach that builds from part to whole starting with phonics.