Looking for support for how to help your child read words? Most classic word-level errors and how to respond to them are in this quick little video example. Try them with your child? You might find that your child benefits from you saying things like... 💠 "Try this sound." 💠 "What else could that be?" 💠 "Don't add an /llll/." [while tapping the space where she added it] 💠 "Don't skip the /lll/." [while tapping the space where he deleted it] ✏️ You may also find a pencil is a lot more precise

The flip side of decoding (reading) is encoding (spelling). Here's a video showing how when children learn to read (decode) through proper phonics and phonetics, the naturally learn to spell (encode). All parents can easily teach their children to read following our simple, step-by-step reading lessons. Learn more here: https://www.childrenlearningreading.net | Children Learning Reading

📣 What decoding strategies do students need after they learn how to blend sounds together to read words? The second-most important decoding strategy is flexibly testing out possibilities for an unknown spelling, until a meaningful word is hit upon. We call this decoding strategy, Flex It. 💪🏿 Flex It helps kids especially with all the tricky phonics possibilities in our language. Take the spelling "ow" as in "show" and in "cow"-- 1 spelling. 2 possible sounds. 🤦🏿‍♀️ How's a beginning or stru