
Decoding: The Basics - Reading Rockets
Decoding is the ability to apply knowledge of letter-sound relationships, including knowledge of letter patterns, to correctly pronounce written words. Understanding these relationships gives children the …
Basics: Phonics and Decoding - Reading Rockets
Basics: Phonics and Decoding Phonics instruction teaches the relationships between the letters of written language and the sounds of spoken language. To read, children need to understand the …
Target the Problem: Word Decoding and Phonics - Reading Rockets
Decoding is the ability to apply your knowledge of letter-sound relationships, including knowledge of letter patterns, to correctly pronounce written words. Understanding these relationships gives …
Phonics and Decoding - Reading Rockets
Phonics and Decoding Phonics is the understanding that there is a predictable relationship between the sounds of spoken language, and the letters and spellings that represent those sounds in written …
Teaching the Alphabetic Code: Phonics and Decoding
Early skills in alphabetics serve as strong predictors of reading success, while later deficits in alphabetics is the main source of reading difficulties. This article argues the importance of developing …
Phonics and Decoding: Activities for Your Kindergartener
Phonics and Decoding: Activities for Your Kindergartener The goal of phonics instruction is to help children learn the alphabetic principle — the idea that letters represent the sounds of spoken …
Reading 101 for Parents: Phonics and Decoding
Reading 101 for Parents: Phonics and Decoding Phonics is a step-by-step way to teach the alphabetic principle — the idea that letters represent the sounds of spoken language — and that there is a …
What Are Decodable Books and Why Are They Important?
The purpose of decodable readers is to develop phonological decoding skills, and this is the focus of the text construction. As children master more of the alphabetic code and progress through a series of …
The Simple View of Reading - Reading Rockets
The Simple View of Reading is a formula demonstrating the widely accepted view that reading has two basic components: word recognition (decoding) and language comprehension. Research studies …
The Whats, Hows, and Whys of Teaching Sight Vocabulary
Sight vocabulary instruction as being less about memorizing a list of words, and more about learning how to recognize and remember words. Research shows that as students get better with decoding, …