V-MS Decoding Analysis Form

We’ve breathed fresh life into a familiar tool, helping you to think deeply about not only if students are using visual information, but how and at what position in the word. For more information about how to make a shift from miscue analysis to decoding analysis, check out Chapter 5 of Shifting the Balance, “Reinventing the Ways We Use V-MS (3 Cueing Systems).”

You will notice we have renamed the form DECODING ANALYSIS, rather than MISCUE analysis, to help clarify the idea that ALL errors are essentially decoding errors, and in every error there is an opportunity to ask ourselves, ‘What decoding skills could have helped the child navigate this word?”