Sentence examples for decoding text from inspiring English sources
According to researchers Clare Wood and David Crystal, the cognitive muscle flexed while decoding text messages unwittingly helps students think about the properties of language.
My son's third-grade teacher, who has a remarkable ability to turn reluctant readers into bookworms, worries that too much passive listening will keep children from the active work of decoding texts.
Decoding texts and emails, lacking confidence.
Eyes and brains decode text.
To comprehend, they need to learn how to "decode text".
The new and subversive critical tendencies of the 1960s demanded more of the reader, who was to become an active participant in decoding the text, not a passive recipient.
Proficiency in letter sound correspondence is important for decoding connected text.
Gallagher deploys clues throughout, which help decode the text, such as the scent of almonds, or childhood relics.
Connections between the correspondence and the work almost always run one way: the letters serve to decode the text.
Between years 7 to 9, pupils' ability to "decode" written text (that is, converting the written symbols of an alphabetical writing system into the sounds they represent) did not improve and pupils in year 9 were just as likely to pronounce words wrongly as they were in year 7.
