Teaching a child to read is all about "decoding," a fundamental skill in which readers sound out unfamiliar words. While it may seem like a fancy educational term – and some parents will hear it a ...

Explore the secrets of words like "pollutant" and "susceptible" with Mrs. Mora. Explore the secrets of words like "pollutant" and "susceptible" with Mrs. Mora. This episode links word decoding to air ...

Mrs. Mora teaches us how to use prefixes and suffixes to decode words related to farming. Farmers use a lot of challenging words as part of their work growing and harvesting our food. Mrs. Mora ...

A syllable is a beat of sound in a word. The beat can sometimes be part of a word, or the whole word. For example, the word 'window' has two beats ('win' – 'dow') but the word 'door' had just one ...

In this paper, the relevance of word structure knowledge to decoding and spelling instruction is discussed. An explicit, discussion oriented, direct approach to teaching decoding and spelling based on ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. A syllable is a beat of sound in a word. The beat can sometimes be part of a word, or the whole word. For example, the ...