Decoding words

Decoding drills for building fluency helps students apply phonics skills when reading. Perfect warm ups and a great tracking tool, too.

So. These days I've been doing a lot of research into how our brains learn to read. In doing that, I've made a shift in how approach beginning reading. I used to ascribe to the

Decoding is the process of using knowledge of letters, sounds, and words to read and understand written language.

Find out the method used by teachers when they begin to teach their kids blending when learning to read. And how about words that are non-decodable?

Help 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students practice decoding multisyllabic words with these 9 engaging activity ideas. These ideas make lesson planning and teaching multisyllabic word strategies to upper elementary students easier. Word sorts, word walls, syllable ladders, and more decoding multisyllabic words activity ideas.

Syllable division is important for decoding. Teach students to divide words into syllables and how to decode each of the syllable types.

I am pretty excited to share with you something I have been working on all summer! As a first grade teacher, I have had parents tell me t...

The ultimate list of 80+ CVC words with pictures and matching worksheets, organized by middle letter vowel sound. Get the free printables!

One of the joys of teaching Kindergarten is seeing your students reach milestones throughout the year, including becoming readers! It makes ...

Are you teaching beginning readers? Use these decodable phonics books for short vowel words to help your students learn to read! Decodable phonics books are short books that have words that students can decode after