Teach Decoding: Why and How

by J. Lloyd Eldredge

For teachers who want to help children develop the ability to decode while engaged in relevant reading and writing activities, the single overriding message of this practical new book is Teach decoding. And that¿s just what this book how to incorporate critical lessons in decoding into a balanced, comprehensive literacy program. With its major focus on the importance to all of learning of phonemic awareness, phonics knowledge, and decoding, this book addresses all aspects of decoding in-depth, explores numerous formal and informal decoding strategies, and compares the strengths and weaknesses of each decoding technique word recognition, analogy, context, phonics, morphemic analysis.

288 pages, Paperback

First published July 19, 2004