Fluency: Decoding

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Fluency: Decoding

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Running Time: 9m 01s
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Decoding is an effective strategy for understanding individual words. Memorizing is a helpful approach to decoding words that are frequently used.

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Teacher Interview: Creating a Lesson Part 1 (Video)

Teacher Interview: Creating a Lesson Part 2 (Video)

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In this video, adult education instructor Tanya Johnson employs decoding as a strategy to improve reading fluency. Decoding is a helpful strategy for understanding individual words.

One approach to decoding is to memorize commonly used words. Johnson uses flash cards to review the 600 most used English words in reading and writing. Memorizing words by sight allows learners to quickly recognize familiar words and move on to unfamiliar ones. Memorizing is also a helpful technique for words that cannot be sounded out, such as through, enough, and thorough.

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  • Is memorizing sight words a technique you would like to try with your learners? Why or why not?
  • Adult education instructor Tanya Johnson stresses the importance of interest in “Teacher Interview: Creating a Lesson, Part 1.” Have you presented topics that interest both you and your learners? Discuss. How does your interest in a topic affect your learners’ experience?
  • In “Teacher Interview: Creating a Lesson, Part 2,” Tanya Johnson discusses the difficulty of finding reading materials appropriate for the adult learner. How do you determine the materials that are appropriate for your classroom?
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