If your third grader still guesses at unfamiliar words — reading “pony” for “puppy,” substituting whole words that start with the right letter — you’re seeing one of the clearest signs that they haven’t been taught to decode. This cluster walks through what’s happening, what it means, and what to do next.
What guessing at words actually means, and why it's a teaching problem before it's a child problem.
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