Drake, a third-grade child, is reading the sentence, “The athletic girl played soccer and volleyball.” In comprehending the sentence, he constructs the following subunits: “There was a girl.” “The girl was athletic.” “The girl played soccer.” “The girl played volleyball.” This example illustrates the ___ component of reading comprehension.

a. lexical access
b. proposition assembly
c. proposition integration
d. text modeling


b. proposition assembly

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