Decoding


E man ci pa tion

grape
fruit


Breaking apart words by looking at the sounds of letters.
Looking at digraphs and dipthongs in a word.
Looking for smaller familiar words in a word.
Looking for patterns of letters.
Chunking words.
Looking for prefixes.
Looking for suffixes.



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