Reply To: Teaching Decoding Beyond First Grade

[Jonas Sauder]

You could start anywhere in this series–you’d need to find what level “fits.” Starting relatively “low” could have several benefits: it might provide the student an opportunity to do well, it might cover some things he didn’t know before, and it might reinforce some things he learned before by coming “at” them in another way. Also, the student would not feel that he’s merely “repeating” some material he covered before, since the books are from a different set of curriculum material.