Teaching decoding

Blends and Digraphs activities for fun learning in the kindergarten, first grade and second grade classroom. Free teaching ideas for games, printables and alternatives to worksheets for your struggling readers and elementary students. #phonics #decoding #readinginterventions #guidedreading #conversationsinliteracy #blendsanddigraphs

In today's post I'll cover how to teach decoding strategies to struggling readers. I'll share some ideas for teaching decoding strategies, provide free strategy menus and cards, and discuss how we can use text-based teaching conversations to support our students.

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

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.

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

Learn how to use decodable passages in guided reading in kindergarten and first grade. Then, use the FREE decodable passages to get started.

If your students are getting stuck on multisyllabic words when they are reading, try this easy routine for decoding larger words.

Read about how to teach decoding multisyllabic words even if you have limited time. I'm sharing 3 ideas for how to fit it into your schedule.

Take a moment to think about how you teach spelling and reading? What strategies do you use and suggest to students when teaching them how to read and spell? Do these strategies involve looking at the pictures? Using context clues to guess the words? If you answered yes to the last two questions above, consider the following:When looking at a picture are you actually reading a word or are you identifying an object in a picture? These are two different processes in our brains. Our brains were…