The Decoding Solution: Rime Magic & Fast Success for Struggling Readers

The slender guide draws together several pivotal onset rime decoding strategies that, for one reason or another, struggling readers often fail to learn, and, yet, need in order to overcome their reading challenges. Strugglers need fast, efficient instruction that provides them with immediate success. The strategies work quickly for students of all ages to bring low word recognition skills up to grade level.

Sharon Zinke is a literacy development and reading intervention specialist. She has worked extensively with struggling readers at elementary, middle, and high schools in her years as a classroom teacher, reading specialist, resource specialist, and literacy consultant. Most recently, she has worked with elementary and middle schools in the Bay Area to quickly raise the decoding and word recognition levels of students reading significantly below grade level. She teaches courses for reading teachers at the University of California Extension, Berkeley, and works with classroom teachers, literacy coaches, and special education teachers to plan effective intervention and classroom strategies for struggling readers.