Decodable reading

Decodable reading is all the rave at the moment. The benefits of being able to decode while reading, using texts that can be decoded easily. There are lots of brands of decodable texts: little learners love literacy, letters and sounds, whizz kids. It depends on your phonics or literacy programme, costs and interests to which brand of books you could use. Each of these are amazing and help students read using a decoding approach with target sounds. 

This is a teaching sequence outline anchor chart which I developed to help share how it can be taught or covered in a lesson. This is no way a 'be all or end all' approach; but covers the main points when teaching. 

1. Prior to reading - the first thing is making sure you have selected the appropriate text based on the sound or grapheme you are focusing on. 
2. Segmenting and blending - this is focusing on the words in the text. Practicing segmenting them out and blending them together. This is practiced continuously to build confidence and skill with the sound. 
3. Tricky words - reading the tricky words as 'fast words'. Lots of reading over them and practicing these so when they are recognised in the text students can say them quickly. 
4. After reading - just like every other guided reading session; talk about the text and have students respond to what was covered. 

Make a copy of this anchor chart here! 

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