Teach Decoding: Why and How

For Elementary Language Arts Methods and Language Development courses; a supplement to Reading Methods texts.

This practical text shows how to incorporate critical lessons in decoding into a balanced, comprehensive literacy program. With its major focus on the importance of phonemic awareness, phonics knowledge, and decoding, this text addresses all aspects of decoding in depth, explores numerous formal and informal decoding strategies, and compares the strengths and weaknesses of each decoding technique for word recognition, analogy, context, phonics, and morphemic analysis.