Reading
Decodable books are simple books that are written for the early reader and contain the specific grapheme–phoneme correspondences pupils have learned. This provides learners with the opportunity to use their developing segmenting and blending skills to read words in order to develop automaticity, or the ability to recognize words quickly and effortlessly, and experience independent reading success.
Decodable books encourage children to sound out words using decoding strategies rather than guessing from pictures or predicting from other cues. They can be introduced once beginning readers have learned some simple grapheme–phoneme correspondences and can blend from left to right.
All books and text are ‘decodable’ in the sense that they can be read, but only if the reader has sufficient reading ability for the complexity of the text. For beginning readers, the only books that are truly decodable are those that contain the alphabetic code they have learned.
Autumn Term Reading Targets
Spring Term Reading Targets
- Newstead Primary School, Hucknall Road, Newstead Village, Nottinghamshire, England, NG15 0BB
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