Sentence examples for decoding words from inspiring English sources

What makes this a winner is Google's voice dictation system, which is now almost perfect at decoding words.

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.

That's important, said Tsang, because many skills – such as decoding words in reading – are more effective when they become instantaneous and reflexive.

My concern with the standards for the youngest grades is not with the Reading: Literacy Standards, which are about comprehension and understanding stories, but rather with the Reading: Foundational Standards (Kindergarten), which are about phonics and decoding words.

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.

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.

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.

"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".