Leader of Learning
In the Early Years students will take home readers that are decodable. I have included some information from the Little Learners Love Literacy website to inform you about how a decodable reader will assist our students in being successful readers. In the classroom students use to the Little Learners Love Literacy brand texts in Guided Reading and as take home readers students use the Pocket Rockets and Decodable Readers Australia texts.
Decodable Texts - taken from Little Learners Love Literacy Information page. Decodable books are stories (or nonfiction texts) written for young or struggling learners to read by ‘decoding’ (sounding out and blending sounds to read words). Each decodable book only uses the sounds and letters that children have been explicitly taught to date. Decodable books also use a small number of taught high-frequency tricky words (Heart words) that are not yet decodable, but are needed to construct sentences in continuous text, such as ‘said’ and ‘one’ and ‘the’.
Decodable books…
- Only use words that can be decoded (or taught tricky words
- Follow the phonics teaching sequence used in the classroom, so children never have to read a word thatthey cannot sound out and blend
- Avoid predictable sentence structures
The purpose of a decodable book...
- To practice and apply letter-sound relationship knowledge taught to date through a meaningful, continuous text
- To build fluency, stamina andcomprehension
- To build confidence and enjoyment in reading.
Mel Steele
Leader of Learning