Beginning Readers

Decodable Texts: Tap Into the Power to Support Beginning Readers

Decodable Texts: Tap Into the Power to Support Beginning Readers

Presented by Elizabeth Franco, Lead Writer and Editor, The Reading & Writing Project at Mossflower; Angela Báez, Writer, The Reading & Writing Project at Mossflower; and Dr. Lucy Calkins, Robinson Professor of Literacy at Teachers College, Columbia University, Founding Director at The Reading & Writing Project at Mossflower, and Senior Author of Units of Study in Writing, Reading, and Phonics

Knowledge Building for Beginning Readers, with Dr. Freddy Hiebert

Why Reading Is Not Just About Decoding

Readers may decode a word, but do they know what it means? Is the language in the texts they read compatible with what decodability dictates? And ultimately, does all that decoding make for reading comprehension?