What feature do resource tools provide to support reading?

What feature do resource tools provide to support reading?

• A. Highlighted words as they are read
• B. Audio without text highlighting
• C. Text with no highlighting
• D. Highlighted words as they are read in English or native languages

Answer: (D)

Highlighting words as they are read, synchronized with spoken narration in English or a learner’s native language, provides a visual cue that tracks progress through the text. This multimodal cue strengthens the link between spoken words and written form, supporting decoding, fluency, and comprehension, and it accommodates bilingual or multilingual learners by presenting text in both languages. Audio alone lacks a visual anchor, and plain text provides no real-time tracking cue, so pairing highlighting with bilingual text offers the most effective reading support.

Highlighting words as they are read, synchronized with spoken narration in English or a learner’s native language, provides a visual cue that tracks progress through the text. This multimodal cue strengthens the link between spoken words and written form, supporting decoding, fluency, and comprehension, and it accommodates bilingual or multilingual learners by presenting text in both languages. Audio alone lacks a visual anchor, and plain text provides no real-time tracking cue, so pairing highlighting with bilingual text offers the most effective reading support.