Our early childhood classes have a common approach to supporting students in developing a range of decoding skills. Children are required to learn a variety of strategies to decode unknown words. These skills are aimed at supporting students to have success when reading independently both within the classroom and at home.

One of our students in Prep, Marissa (Prep Blue) has demonstrated her understanding above of how she can use two of the decoding strategies to help her when she gets stuck on a word. Through her written description, Marissa identifies stretchy snake and skippy frog and describes how she uses the strategies to help her reading. Marissa has even included connected images that help her to remember the strategies.

Sophie Sheehan

Literacy Coach