The kindergarten team would like to purchase decodable texts for all students, for both the classroom library and for reading groups, so that students have the opportunity to apply skills they are learning in Fundations to decoding words in books.
The Elementary Literacy Department has been promoting use of decodable texts and structured literacy lessons to support all students in growing their decoding abilities. Purchasing more decodable texts will allow us to effectively apply this learning to teaching reading. These books will help us implement research-backed approaches of teaching students to sound out (decode) unknown words, as opposed to using other cues (e.g., pictures) to guess words.