Ep. 132: Decodable Text Series: The Research on Decodable Text

Researcher Heidi Anne Mesmer joins the podcast to discuss the research on decodable text and dos and don'ts for classroom practice. Thinking about decodability as a meter from most to least decodable to the reader is important. A child who reads a text by sounding out and decoding words will experience a milestone of childhood: the feeling of reading. This also supports orthographic mapping.

Resources

• Decodable Text: A Review of What We Know, Heidi Anne Mesmer 
• TextProject.org 
• Key Knowledge to Support Phonological Awareness and Phonics Instruction, Piasta and Hudson 
• Choosing and Using Decodable Texts, Wiley Blevins 
• Reading Above the Fray, Julia Lindsey 

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