Have you ever handed students a decodable text, listened to them read through it — and moved on?
When you're focused on phonics patterns, it's easy to treat the text as a decoding vehicle and not much else.
The words are the point. Getting through them is the goal.
Comprehension? Somewhere in the background.
But decodable books can do more than that. And when you know exactly what to do with them, your instruction starts to look different.
In this week's YouTube video, I walk through a lesson using my own decodable book, The Fin — showing you what it looks like to build real comprehension alongside decoding.
Vocabulary work before reading.
Questions that go deeper than literal recall.
A simple structure that pushes students to think about cause, contrast, and consequence.
The same little book, but a lot more instructional mileage!
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Because of that, you will still see themeasuredmom.com on many of our resources.
We hope to complete the entire transition by the end of 2026.
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