Teaching Tips: Decoding Strategies
Learn about decoding strategies for young readers. Find out what decoding strategies are and why they are so important. Also includes teaching tips, handouts for students, and online activities. There are links to eThemes resources on sight words and contextual clues.
Grades
- 1,
- 2,
- 3,
- 4,
- 5
Links
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Scholastic: Short Vowels
Clifford the Big Red Dog has phonics fun activities to reinforce short-vowel sounds and sound-spellings. Interactive activities are paired with traditional learning.
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ReadWriteThink: Rooting Out Meaning: Morpheme Match-Ups
Work with students to expand their vocabulary and decode unfamiliar words through developing an understanding of morphemes.
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ReadWriteThink: Phonics in Context
This mini lesson reinforces the short /u/ sound. A link to Phonemic Awareness Assessment Tools is provided.
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ReadWriteThink: Word Sorts for Beginning and Struggling Readers
Use the interactive activity, Word Family Sort, to provide students practice with short-vowel word families. Use the book, "The Magic Hat" by Mem Fox to reinforce the skill.
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Reading Rockets: Phonics and Decoding podcasts and videos
These instructional podcasts and videos by experts in the reading field will help educators learn tips for working with children.
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Reading Rockets: Word Decoding and Phonics
This professional article provides tips for teaching decoding. Ideas for children, parents and teachers are given
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Reading Rockets: Tutoring Strategies for Primary Grades
Scroll down to read how to help young readers develop decoding strategies.
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Decoding
Learn more about the importance of decoding in this research-based article.
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Decoding Multisyllabic Words
This decoding lesson focuses on syllables: what is a syllable?; six common syllable spelling patterns; and closed syllables.
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PBS: Stories
On this website young students can choose a story and practice using decoding strategies to learn the words. At the end of each story is a word game.
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ABCTeach: Decoding and Word Recognition
Here are PDF files that can be downloaded to practice decoding skills.
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eThemes Resource: Sight Words
These websites have lists and activities that will help students learn sight words. There are many quizzes and games. Also learn why it is so important that students learn sight words.
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eThemes Resource: Reading Skills: Context Clues
These sites focus on using contextual clues to determine the meaning of unknown words. The sites introduce different types of contextual clues and strategies on using the clues. Exercises, lesson plans, and a song are included. There are links to eThemes resources on Text Structures, Teaching Tips for Decoding Strategies, Synonyms and Antonyms, and Prefixes and Suffixes.
Education Standards
- AL
- MO
