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      Students’ reading fluency can be limited by their encoding and decoding awareness. The students participating in the study are struggling readers in the fourth grade. The school in which they attend is in a small suburban town in southwestern Massachusetts.  The students were introduced to strategies that enhance spelling patterns and sight word recognition.  The researcher met three times each week with students for eight weeks. At the beginning of the study, the students were given a developmental spelling inventory to determine their knowledge of basic spelling rules and patterns. The measuring instruments used to assess the students’ progress are the Developmental Reading Assessment, running records, and informal written responses.