Improving Decoding Skills and Vocabulary Learning

Provisionally Registered Teachers     Literacy Workshop  Tuesday 6th June 2017

Improving Decoding Skills and Vocabulary Learning

Students

• tolerate inconsistencies in their comprehension

• do not stop and repair the breakdown in their comprehension

• do not adjust their reading speed
• are often unaware of the strategies which should be used

• do not realize they must work to make sense of a text

There was lots of positive feedback from the PRTs. More importantly, there was instant uptake by some of the teachers who used the strategies the very next day. One of the lessons was recorded and it was great to see students being instructed to take their word maps home and to attach them to the fridge.