Sentence examples for decode words from inspiring English sources

A nun at my parochial school worked with me and taught me to decode words.

These students have not learned to decode words of over three syllables.

But neither is the ability to teach reading, which requires sophisticated ability to help children decode words and develop a phonetic awareness.

"Teaching youngsters to decode words will get you through the fourth-grade test, but it's not going to prepare you for the skills you need in middle school and high school".

The great problem for Dr. Hirsch is not so much teaching children to successfully decode words -- though Core Knowledge has a strong foundation in phonics instruction -- as it is arming them with enough knowledge of words and things so that they won't be thwarted by the information contained in an ordinary sentence.

"For 20 years, everyone was saying you have to teach kids to read by the end of third grade or they're lost," Ms. Frost said, "but now what the research is showing is that teaching them to read, to decode words, isn't the same thing as teaching them how to use reading, how to have the fluency and comprehension and vocabulary they need".

Those associations alone were enough to send this reader back to the comforting, spicy-smelling library of childhood and the first memories of being transported by those recently decoded words on the page.

Readable pseudowords, rather than words, were used to mimic early non-automatic stages of reading when reading is achieved by decoding words through grapheme phoneme pairing and combination.

Locke supposed that communication was basically a matter of a speaker encoding thoughts into words and the listener decoding words back into thoughts.

Expert witnesses to the inquiry raised concerns about the teaching of reading which places an exclusive emphasis on decoding words through synthetic phonics.

The most common way of addressing the problem is to use additional CRC check bits [11] after the BCH decoder has accepted a decoded word.