For The Love Of Literacy

The Sentence Pathway to Decoding and Comprehension -- Xiuhong Tong & S. Hélène Deacon

April 20, 2026·58 min
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If you have ever wondered why your students struggle with word reading, or read accurately but with limited comprehension, then you may want to flip your approach to reading instruction. Start at the sentence level by using Xiuhong Tong and Hélène Deacon’s groundbreaking Linguistics Pathways Model, which provides two parallel paths leading to reading comprehension. The first pathway leads to word recognition by morphological decoding. Deacon and Tong show how word reading and meaning arise fr...

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