When the child gives you the duet signal, you will begin reading together. When the child feels ready for solo reading, she will give the solo signal and you will stop reading. You can nod your head or give some other simple sign of encouragement for her solo reading. Continue paired reading until the book or passage is completed. Helping Children Develop Decoding Strategies Engaged readers automatically use decoding, or cueing, strategies to figure out new words in text.
Some children develop decoding strategies over time with little direct instruction.
Here are some tutoring strategies for decoding. Focus on the Meaning . Young readers often figure out a new word by thinking about what would make sense in a sentence or story. You can help by suggesting that the child look at the pictures, then read a sentence again. Children apply what they already know about the relationships between letters and sounds to read a new word.