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Strategy 6: Declunking

When good readers read a text, they often come across a word that they find difficult to pronounce or decode. This difficult word is referred to as a ‘clunk’. When a reader meets a ‘clunk’, they have to ‘declunk’ it so that it makes sense. This Comprehension strategy involves providing pupils with explicit instruction on what to do when they meet a ‘clunk’.

Two approaches are used in developing ‘declunking’ as a strategy:

  • Developing decoding skills – sounding out, looking for letter blends, prefixes and suffixes in words etc.
  • Extending vocabulary

 ‘I have a CLUNK’. When a reader comes across a word that they cannot understand, then they need to ‘declunk’. To indicate they this, they make the letter c on both hands and join them.



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