While reading her psychology textbook, River comes across words that she has never seen
before, such as exacerbate and reserpine. She notices that on these sorts of unfamiliar
words she must stop and try to pronounce the words several times.
For unfamiliar words,
River is using the method of reading known as __________ reading.
a. limited fixation
b. phonetic
c. whole-word
d. partial-word
e. functional
b. phonetic
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