Teaching Tips: Decoding Strategies
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Description:
| 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. |
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Grade Level:
| 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
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Resource Links:
| Decoding Strategies
Learn about semantic cueing, grapho-phonic cueing, and structural cueing, all of which help students to figure out words in context.
Phonics, Decoding, and Word Identification
Read why phonics and decoding are so important and how they work. Includes tips on when and how to start teaching decoding.
Reading Rockets: Tutoring Strategies for Primary Grades
Scroll down to read how to help young readers develop decoding strategies.
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.
PBS: Decoding Activity
Here is a decoding activity for students to try.
Word Decoding Activities
Here are activities that can be used to practice word decoding strategies.
ABCTeach: Decoding and Word Recognition
Here are PDF files that can be downloaded to practice decoding skills.
Decoding and Comprehension Strategies
Here are two reading strategies that help students to figure out words when reading.
Lesson One: Decoding Strategies
In this lesson plan, students practice applying decoding strategies using cueing systems to problem-solve unknown words by identifying those words and providing word meanings.
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.
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.
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Education Standards:
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AL Standards:
2.2, 2.3, 3.3, 3.4, 4.1, 4.2, 4.5, 2.1, 2.2, 3.3, 3.8, 5.5, 2.1, 2.3, 3.6, 3.7, 3.9, 3.11, 3.12, 3.13, 4.1, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6, 1.3, 1.4, 2.1, 2.3, 3.5, 5.7, 1.1, 2.4, 2.5, 4.4, 4.5, 4.6
AR Standards:
R.8.1.2, R.8.1.8, R.9.1.1, R.9.1.2, R.9.1.3, R.9.1.8, R.11.1.1, R.11.1.2, R.11.1.5, R.9.2.1, R.9.2.2, R.9.2.3, R.11.2.1, R.11.2.2, R.11.2.4, R.9.3.1, R.9.3.3, R.11.3.1, R.11.3.3, R.11.3.6, R.11.3.7, R.9.4.1, R.11.4.5, R.11.4.6, R.11.4.7, R.9.5.1, R.11.5.1, R.11.5.3
IL Standards:
1.A.1a, 1.A.1b, 1.B.1c, 1.A.2a, 1.A.2b, 1.B.2c
ME Standards:
A.5, A.6, A.4
MO Standards:
1, R.1.C.1, R.1.C.1, R.1.C.1, R.1.C.1, R.1.C.1
NV Standards:
1.1.2, 1.1.3, 1.2.2, 1.2.3, 1.3.2, 1.3.3, 1.4.2, 1.5.2
OH Standards:
R.1.A.3, R.1.A.4, R.1.A.1, R.1.A.3, R.1.A.4, R.1.A.5, R.1.A.6, R.1.A.1, R.1.A.2, R.1.A.3, R.1.B.4, R.1.B.5, R.1.B.6, R.2.A.1, R.2.A.2, R.2.A.1, R.2.A.2
UT Standards:
4.2.a, 4.2.b, 4.2.c, 4.2.d, 4.2.e, 4.2.a, 4.2.b, 4.2.c, 4.2.d, 4.2.e, 4.1, 4.2, 4.4.a, 4.1, 4.2, 4.1, 4.2
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