Mr. Lyon’s carefully orchestrated efforts to focus early reading instruction on phonics and decoding did not create competent readers. His efforts yielded competent decoders.

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For reading to be fluent, decoding must be automatic and without thought, so that decoding becomes effortless—allowing students to focus their brain energy on comprehension.

Phonics and decoding are also the subject of a documentary called “ The Right To Read,” which presents literacy as a major civil rights issue.

Mullen characterized it as guessing, compared with the sound-it-out decoding of words that phonics employs. “Decoding words is really the only true way to teach children to read,” she said.

There is also evidence that readers at all levels – even adults – use the decoding processes learned through phonics to read words that are new to them throughout their lives.

Phonics — explicit literacy teaching focusing on the sounds in words — is being introduced into the Victorian curriculum despite resistance from the Australian Education Union.