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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teacher here. Over the years, I have had many more students who struggled to decode than couldn't comprehend. I teach in a Title One school and our phonics program leaves a lot to be desired with phonological awareness. The kids score low on DIBELS and it takes them longer to even get to decoding. By that point, phonics instruction is over and our one reading intervention teacher was cut last year. So we have kids in 3rd grade and up who still cannot quickly decode. If you can't quickly decode, you will never read fluently enough to comprehend. [/quote]

This is the problem with holding off decoding. The curriculum just keeps going and getting more difficult and then there's no time to catch up and teach phonics. [b]You can catch up easier on comprehension once you can decode through reading and experience.[/quote][/b]

Strongly disagree.  Language must come first.[/quote]

I meant by this statement that after about 2nd or 3rd grade, kids are expected to read most words phonetically, therefore it's important to teach decoding during the K-2 years. I can't imagine trying to teach the 5th grade standard curriculum and teach a child how to decode.[/quote]

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