how are schools handling students who memorize books but can't actually decode

I keep running into kids who can recite whole patterned books and look fluent for a minute, but once the text changes even a little bit, they're stuck. It seems like this gets missed way too often because the kid sounds like a reader until you dig into what they're actually doing. I'm curious how different schools are catching that early and what interventions are helping once it's identified. Are people seeing better results with stronger phonics screening up front or is it more about how classroom reading is being monitored?

Submitted June 7, 2026 at 05:03AM by TrickLink4660 https://ift.tt/TXLz93p