One of the strategies I use with my youngest readers is learning to read and write words by sight. Students use magnetic letters, white boards, and various manipulatives to master this skill.
Older students work on picking out which words are "interesting" vs. "important words. This strategy helps them to summarize the text they are reading.
In addition, determining how many syllables are in words helps even the highest reader to "attack" longer words so that the students aren't overwhelmed by decoding the word and lose their comprehension focus.
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