Decoding activities

Decoding drills for building fluency helps students apply phonics skills when reading. Perfect warm ups and a great tracking tool, too.

Help 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade students practice decoding multisyllabic words with these 9 engaging activity ideas. These ideas make lesson planning and teaching multisyllabic word strategies to upper elementary students easier. Word sorts, word walls, syllable ladders, and more decoding multisyllabic words activity ideas.

Take a moment to think about how you teach spelling and reading? What strategies do you use and suggest to students when teaching them how to read and spell? Do these strategies involve looking at the pictures? Using context clues to guess the words? If you answered yes to the last two questions above, consider the following:When looking at a picture are you actually reading a word or are you identifying an object in a picture? These are two different processes in our brains. Our brains were…

Decoding is the process of using knowledge of letters, sounds, and words to read and understand written language.

These long a decoding activities are perfect for students learning to read and write words with the long a phonics pattern. Each decodable includes words, nonsense words, sentences, and a short story.

Adding some fun games for reading in the classroom schedule will instantly get your kids excited to read! These 5 fun reading games are...

Here are reading intervention activities that help kids decode multisyllabic words. Using Spot and Dot helps students take apart...

Learn about an easy routine for decoding multisyllabic words in 2nd grade text. Free tools included!

What do you do when your students get stuck on a word? Read this step-by-step guide to help you teach your students to decode independently.