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Decoding

Decoding is the ability to pronounce the words as the reader

encounters them in the text.

sound by sound

whole word or a part of a word into its onset—the consonants that

precede the vowel in a word or syllable—and rime—the vowel and

consonants that follow it in a syllable

word structure (roots, prefixes, suffixes, and syllables