Author Question: Why is it important to teach a student a variety of strategies to use when decoding? (Read 105 times)

DelorasTo · **on:** Feb 19, 2019

Why is it important to teach a student a variety of strategies to use when decoding?

bblaney · **Reply #1 on:** Feb 19, 2019

It is important to give students tools to be flexible thinkers and problem solvers while reading. One strategy may not work in every situation, so it is better to have a variety of strategies to use in different situations. For example, some words are not easily decoded by sounding out the individual letters (e.g., "love"). When a student fails by this method, he may look at semantic and syntactic context to determine meaning.

DelorasTo · **Reply #2 on:** Feb 19, 2019

Thanks

bblaney · **Reply #3 on:** Feb 19, 2019

Welcome