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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Ep. 132: Decodable Text Series: The Research on Decodable Text