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how are schools handling students who memorize books but can't actually decode

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BlueBelle Sun 07-Jun-26 15:16:39

‘Whole pattern books’ and ‘decoding’
I don’t even understand your language ekartroda

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Baggs Sun 07-Jun-26 15:13:09

*they

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Baggs Sun 07-Jun-26 15:12:44

"can't actually decode"

Do you mean by this that the children can't actually read but memorise stories that have been read to them?

I think memorising stories is quite common in young chilren before thay can read. That's why they often object if a word or phrase is changed.

I haven't heard of this holding up their reading ability when they are a little older.

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ekrartona Sun 07-Jun-26 14:30:59

I keep running into kids who can recite whole patterned books and look fluent for a minute, but once the text changes even a little bit, they're stuck. It seems like this gets missed way too often because the kid sounds like a reader until you dig into what they're actually doing. I'm curious how different schools are catching that early and what interventions are helping once it's identified. Are people seeing better results with stronger phonics screening up front or is it more about how classroom reading is being monitored?

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