hi everyone this is carrie cole with side by side educational consulting where we specialize working side by side with educators to improve outcomes for all kids [Music] [Music] we've been in a really exciting phonics series where we've been looking at the components of an explicit phonics lesson and the steps that you can use to build a lesson that's going to ensure success for all kids the first step was ensuring that there was a phonemic awareness warm-up the second step was an explicit connection from the sound to the spelling or a phoneme grapheme association then the third step was blending teaching kids how to then take those sounds that they've learned and blend them into words we're now today going to look at step number four which is reading decodable text lots of talk around decodable text right now particularly in this idea of the science of reading and i really want to talk about how to use decodable text strategically because just using strategy using decodable text does not necessarily mean that you're connecting it to your phonics scope and sequence so the decodable text that you're using should connect explicitly to your phonic scope and sequence decodable text provides an opportunity for kids to take those previously learned sounds and spellings and then apply that knowledge to connected text in a really meaningful way so any decodable isn't going to work you want to make sure that the decodable is matched up to the sound simple correspondences that kids have learned that way kids aren't going to be forced to guess at any words in the text because all of the words in the text are either words that contain sound spellings that they've been previously taught in an explicit way or maybe a few high frequency words that they've learned previous to reading the text and they already know those on site so when we have that type of text what it does is prevents guessing for kids they either come to a word that they have the skills to sound it out or they have a word that they've previously learned as a sight word and they could they already know that word in a flash when you look at a type of decodable text and here's an example from fly leaf publishing which is a pretty popular decodable text series you can see how this is focusing on short vowel sounds and actually the biggest focus in this book is short o so kids have just learned short o and now they're going to have an opportunity to practice that short o sound in the text so when you open up the text you'll see there are words that kids can sound out and again they're not forced to guess at anything the beauty of these readers and many of the decodable readers that are out there is some place in the book and in the fly leaf publishing books it's in the back you'll see it laid out for the teacher in terms of here are the sound spellings that kids have to know before they read this book and here are the high frequency words that they need to know to be able to read this book successfully that makes everything in this book if they've been taught these two things 100 decodable meaning there's nothing in here that they can't either sound out or have already previously learned that high frequency word when kids have that it makes them successful decodable text isn't the be-all end-all to reading it's just a step for an explicit phonics lesson you would of course be providing really great read-alouds on authentic literature as well but this is an opportunity for kids to practice their phonic skills in connected text which leads to a high degree of success let's look at a quick example of kids reading a decodable text in the classroom boys and girls we're going to be reading a decodable today it has two of the word our high frequency words that we just focused on the first word that's going to be in it that's one of our sight words is what everyone ha spell it what word that word will be in there good job and then we have another new high frequency word that we've learned and that word is yes what spell it [Music] what word you've got it excellent job let's look at our new book so let's look at our two chapters the first chapter is what everyone a a pet ox very good point to the words and then the second chapter is babe helps okay let's see what happens in this book turn to the first page put your finger on the first word you're going to read this book a page at a time first you'll whisper read the page to yourself and then we'll read the page together get ready you're going to whisper read the page to yourself remember to point to each word as you read if you finish early i want you to whisper read the page again are you ready begin uh get ready everyone read i am [Music] big van nice job i have a question for you how much bigger is the man than the van find it in the text can you point to it how much times