Balancing Decodable Texts with Meaningful Understanding

From Nov 4, 2022

Researcher Heidi Anne Mesmer joins the podcast to discuss the research on decodable text and dos and don'ts for classroom practice. Thinking about decodability as a meter from most to least decodable to the reader is important. A child who reads a text by sounding out and decoding words will experience a milestone of childhood: the feeling of reading. This also supports orthographic mapping.

Resources

• Decodable Text: A Review of What We Know, Heidi Anne Mesmer 
• TextProject.org 
• Key Knowledge to Support Phonological Awareness and Phonics Instruction, Piasta and Hudson 
• Choosing and Using Decodable Texts, Wiley Blevins 

Reading Above the Fray, Julia Lindsey 

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