How to teach decoding skills

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

At one point or another, we’ve all worked with struggling readers. Sometimes we can tell, on the very first day of school, which students are going to have difficulty. Other times we see students fall a bit behind throughout the course of the year. But why do certain students fall behind their same-age peers? And what steps can we take to help them catch up? Throughout the month of January, I’m going to be exploring these topics with you through a series of blog posts. I’ll be digging in…

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Teaching phonics is essential, but how do we do it? Here are 7 steps for how to teach phonics step by step to give your students a strong...

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The science of reading emphasizes explicit phonics instruction, which teaches students the relationships between letters and the sounds they make. These readers are specifically designed to align with this approach. They present predictable words that follow specific phonics rules, allowing students to decode new words by sounding them out.

Learn about an easy routine for decoding multisyllabic words in 2nd grade text. Free tools included!