Which cueing type is described as focusing on decoding and understanding using visual information?

• A. Semantic clues
• B. Flesch
• C. Standard score
• D. Visual cues

Answer: (D)

Decoding and understanding using what the text looks like on the page is the focus here. This cueing type uses visual information from print—letters, patterns, and sounds mapped to those letters—to sound out words and recognize them. When readers rely on visual cues, they’re decoding by attending to print features and letter–sound relationships, which lays the foundation for pronunciation and word recognition that support overall comprehension.

Semantic clues, by contrast, depend on meaning and context to infer unfamiliar words, not on how the word appears in print. The other options are measurement terms rather than cueing systems, so they don’t describe decoding based on visual features.