Decodability...Down to the Letter

Join Kim Altman, Director of Sales, Kathy New, Senior Product Manager, and Steve Lattanzio, Principal Machine Learning Engineer, for a closer look at our science of reading-aligned, first-of-its-kind analysis of decodable books. Learn:
• Why deeper insights into decodability are critical for educators who need sequence-aligned practice materials for their students.
• How our AI-powered analysis leverages natural language processing technology to provide the only decodability analysis available.
• How analyzing your decodable books increases their reach through our online tool, Find a Decodable Book.

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2. Q: What vowel sounds are teachers searching for most on Lexile® Find a Decodable Book? Answer: A (by 5x!) vowel e CVC
3. Deeper Insights Into Decodability The Science of Reading (SOR): • Greater emphasis on teaching systematic, explicit and cumulative phonics instruction • Use of decodable text State legislatures have enacted SOR-related laws. • Mandate teacher training, evidence-based curricula Teachers struggle to find decodable books that align with their scope and sequence.
4. Deeper Insights Into Decodability What Educators Are Looking For In a decodable book, I look for opportunities for students to use the parts of the code that they have already learned. Also, it is nice to have the sight words that are included in the text introduced at the beginning so that students can preview them and be successful during the reading of the text. I know that the book is appropriate for the student when they can read it with minimal assistance from the teacher…” — CURRICULUM COORDINATOR, NEW YORK “ I look that they match the pattern that teachers are using and that they do not have patterns that are harder than the one being taught.” — ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL, MARYLAND “
5. Deeper Insights Into Decodability A Look at the Analysis ✓ To support publishers in providing critical information that allows educators to find appropriate decodable books for their students ✓ First-of-its-kind automated analysis of decodable books ✓ Categorizes every word by sound and spelling pattern ✓ Gain insight into the decodable words used in your titles down to the individual spelling and letter sound
6. A Closer Look at the Analysis
7. Powered by… • How do we enable the decodability analysis? ◦ With NLP and AI • To do it well, we need grapheme-phoneme alignments. ◦ Even low level decodables can have edge cases • Built on neural network models from prior research ◦ Spelling ➡ probabilistic phoneme predictions ◦ Permutations of graphemes ➡ max likelihood word graphemes phonemes syllables cvc let's l-e-t-'-s L-EH-T-sil-S 1 CVC'C decode d-e-c-o_e-d D-EH-K-OW-D 2 CVCVCE everything e_e-v-r-y-th-i-ng EH-V-R-IY-TH-IH-NG 3 VCECVCCVCC Neural Network Some Math spelling phoneme probabilities grapheme permutation likelihood
8. Deeper Insights Into Decodability What’s in it for you? ✓ Validation of data for publishers through independent and objective analysis ✓ Ensure alignment with the science of reading ✓ Compliance with state legislation ✓ Support your RFP responses ✓ Additional exposure with Find a Decodable Book
9. Find a Decodable Book New Resource for Families & Educators
10. Deeper Insights Into Decodability Growth Metrics
11. MetaMetrics® Partner Portal One Place for Everything How submission works via the new Partner Portal
13. Wrap-Up Shoutout for Frankfurter Buchmesse! Get started with Decodability Analysis: Email kaltman@lexile.com Foundational Reading Ecosystem
14. Questions? For any questions we do not answer live, we will provide an answer when we send the link to the recording. Thank you for joining us!
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