The benefits of teaching phonics explicitly and systematically to young students include all of the following, EXCEPT:
a. they can form and decode words more fluently.
b. they are better able to predict an unknown word they encounter.
c. they are better able to link sounds to letter symbols.
d. they are better able to make inferences about what they have read.
ANSWER: d
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