Scarborough's Reading Rope is described as a reading framework for knowing words and understanding what they mean.

• A. It is a reading framework for knowing words and understanding what they mean.
• B. It is a phonics program.
• C. It focuses only on fluency.
• D. It is a vocabulary list.

Answer: (A)

Scarborough's Reading Rope shows that reading comprehension comes from weaving two big strands together: word recognition and language comprehension. Word recognition covers how readers know and read words—things like phonemic awareness, decoding, and sight word recognition. Language comprehension covers understanding the meaning behind the text—vocabulary, background knowledge, knowledge of sentence structure and discourse, and verbal reasoning. Describing it as a framework for knowing words and understanding what they mean fits perfectly because it highlights both the ability to read words correctly and the ability to understand their meaning in context. It’s not a specific phonics program, nor does it focus only on fluency or reduce reading to a vocabulary list; it’s a model of how decoding and comprehension work together to enable understanding of text.