Children would say, “cat.” They would think about what a cat is. How would we teach reading by encoding? We might show a picture of a cat.

“Encoding” means starting with sounds and joining them together to form words. To start with sounds, though, means to start not with decoding but with encoding. But as brain research teaches us, a better way to start the process of reading is with sounds. This decoding process starts with a visual image of a word.

I teach many children who can decode words correctly, but who have no idea what those words mean. Updated MaBug fixes.So often when people talk about reading instruction, they talk about “decoding.” By “decoding” they mean looking at a written word, such as “cat,” pronouncing each letter sound or digraph, and putting those letter sounds together to pronounce the whole word, with or without meaning. Updated MaNow supports saving search queries from PubMed and Google Scholar to

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