| HELPING YOUR CHILD DECODE |  | Your child is working on learning a variety of strategies to help him/her read an unfamiliar word. The following is a list of these strategies. You can help your child to decode by suggesting that she/he use one of these methods, rather than simply telling your child what the word is.
1. Sound the word out.
2. Try another sound.
3. Make sure the word sounds right, looks right, and make sense.
4. Look for word chunks that your child can read (ick, and, ist, etc.)
5. Look for smaller words in the word.
6. Skip the word, read to the end of the sentence, and come back to the word.
7. Think about words that might rhyme with the word.
8. Check the picture.
9. Check vowels and vowel pairs to see the number of syllables. Each syllable
contains a vowel or vowel pair.
10. Look for prefixes (beginnings) and suffixes (endings).
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