Practical Strategies to improve Single Word Decoding Fluency in KS2

This lecture, presented by Dr Grace Elliott and Emma Hartnell-Baker, will focus on issues relating to the development of phonemic awareness and single word decoding and encoding skills when a DfE validated SSP programme is used to teach phonics in KS1.
Word processes that are inefficient hinder text understanding by reducing the cognitive resources available for comprehension. Slow, non-automatic word recognition processes in alphabetic orthographies typically occur when children are faced with trying to ‘sound out’ most of the words, or by laboriously using sentence context cues to guess the unknown word. Over 1 in 4 children currently leave primary school unable to read age-appropriate text with comprehension.