📣 What decoding strategies do students need after they learn how to blend sounds together to read words? The second-most important decoding strategy is flexibly testing out possibilities for an unknown spelling, until a meaningful word is hit upon. We call this decoding strategy, Flex It. 💪🏿 Flex It helps kids especially with all the tricky phonics possibilities in our language. Take the spelling "ow" as in "show" and in "cow"-- 1 spelling. 2 possible sounds. 🤦🏿‍♀️ How's a beginning or stru