Decoding and Automaticity: Helping Poor Readers Become Automatic at Word Recognition.

As I lecture to university students and to classroom teachers on how to meet the needs of poor readers, I am often asked questions about decoding or word recognition. Decoding is of con cern because so many poor readers have difficulty with this important pre requisite for skilled reading. What I plan to do in this article is answer 6 frequently asked questions. If you put the information in this article into use,