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What are decodable books?

Posted on 31st January 202327th May 2024 in Approaches to Teaching Reading, Decodable Books, Learning to Read, Science of Reading, Synthetic Phonics and tagged Article, beginning readers, decodable books, decodable readers, grapheme, phoneme, Phonics, phonics program, Science of Reading, struggling readers, systemactic phonics, truly decodableLeave a Comment

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What are decodable books? Although the rise of the Science of Reading movement has meant that systematic phonics teaching programs are gaining popularity in the US, one of the most frequently asked questions is still, “What are decodable books?” Phonic Books co-founder, Tami Reis-Frankfort, provides a brief clarification of the meaning of the term, ‘decodable…

Little things can make a big difference

Posted on 8th October 202022nd May 2024 in Approaches to Teaching Reading, Learning to Read, Science of Reading and tagged Article, beginning readers, early elementary reading, Education research, grapheme, orthogrpahic mapping, phoneme, phonemic awareness, Phonics, Reading, Science of Reading, spelling activities, The Reading LeagueLeave a Comment

The education researcher Dylan Wiliam has said, “changing what teachers do is more important than changing what teachers know.” But isn’t knowledge power? And what we do is obviously linked to what we know. So, how can that be? In the past few years, there has been a groundswell of interest in the science of…