Making Decoding Visible for Students Who Overapply Long Vowels
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Making Decoding Visible for Students Who Overapply Long Vowels
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Some students know phonics rules—but apply the wrong one at the wrong time. If you have a reader who turns pop into pope, sack into sake, or “fixes” unfamiliar words to make them look more like real ones, this episode is for you.
In this Teacher-to-Teacher conversation, Dr. Gina Pepin breaks down what these long-vowel errors actually signal (hint: they’re not random), how nonsense-word reading can reveal the root issue, and what to notice when a student has a “long-vowel bias” or guesses after decoding silently.
You’ll walk away with fast, classroom-ready routines you can start immediately—minimal-pair contrasts (CVC vs. CVCe), quick pattern sorts, word chaining, “mark it before you read it,” and dictation moves that force students to choose the vowel sound based on the print. Plus, you’ll get an easy progress-monitoring probe to confirm the instruction is working in just 1–2 weeks.
Practical, systematic, and doable—because the print provides the evidence, and we can teach students to look for it.
Check out more at www.ginapepin.com
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