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CTET 1 Mar 2026 Paper 1 English, Question 95

Topic: Reading skills

Q95

Read the following statements about reading skills.
A. Reading is just the ability to decode.
B. Children learn to read through involvement in the act of reading.
Which of the above statements is/are True/False ?

  1. (1) Only B is true.Correct answer
  2. (2) Only A is true.
  3. (3) Both A and B are true.
  4. (4) Both A and B are false.

Solution.

CBSE answer: (1)

Answer: (1) Only B is true.

  1. A is false: reading is not just decoding letters into sounds; it is making meaning from text.
  2. B is true: children learn to read by actually reading, with real books and print around them, as NCF 2005 stresses.
  3. So only statement B is true.

Trap: decoding is one part of reading, which is why A looks partly right, but the word 'just' makes it false.