📣 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

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