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Teach a Child to Read in 3 steps - Individual Licence
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Teach a Child to Read in 3 steps – Individual Licence

$41.25 (inc. $3.75 GST)
Year Level: Early Years, Individual licence

This is a PLD Individual Licence resource.

By purchasing this licence, this program will be accessible as a digital flipbook that will be stored in your secure account on the PLD website and may only be accessed by an individual user, being the Purchaser. The program will be accessible as a digital flipbook that can be accessed by the purchaser on any device for as long as the licence is active. An Individual Licence is valid for 12 months from the date of purchase. Sharing of an Individual Licence or account credentials for the purpose of sharing an Individual Licence is a breach of Australian Copyright Law and PLD Terms of Use. For more information, visit our Individual Licence FAQ.

Targeting alphabet sounds, phonemic blending and CVC decoding

Single word decoding involves two primary base skills:

  1. Visual Skills: The recognition of the alphabet symbol and the conversion of this symbol into a sound (ie: Not letter name).
  2. Auditory Skills: The phonemic awareness skill of blending three sounds (or phonemes) together to form a word.

The following example illustrates the process of early decoding. To read the word ‘sit’ a student must:

  1. Visually recognise the symbol ‘s’ and convert the symbol to the sound /s/.
  2. Visually recognise the symbol ‘i’, and convert the symbol into the sound /i/.
  3. Visually recognise the symbol ‘t’, and convert the symbol into the sound /t/.
  4. Finally, the ‘s’, ‘i’ and ‘t’ sounds are held in the working memory, then need to be blended together to form the word.

Over time children become more efficient at a visual and an auditory level. For example, rather than decoding the word ‘sit’ in three parts the word may be decoded in two parts (e.g. s-it). After much decoding practice students develop automatic word recognition and will read the word in full without sounding.

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This publication is mentioned within the Year 1 & 2 Teaching Sequence Manual on page 19.

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School Size

Extra small (<49 students), Small (50-149 students), Medium (150-349 students), Large (350+ students)