Our brains are amazing. They are love to make connections, and they love to make things make sense. That's where the decoding strategy "Lips the Fish" comes in.
When we come to a word we don't know we can look at the first sound or group of sounds in the word and 'get our lips ready' to say that sound. Then, go back to the beginning of the sentence and get your lips ready to say that sound. Quite often, our brains want to make sense of what we are reading, so we will know what the word is just by getting our 'lips ready' to say the first sound.
Sometimes, we can even use "Eagle Eye" and "Lips the Fish" together. We can 'get our lips ready' to say the first sound and look a the picture.
Of course, that does not always work, and we may need to try other strategies. We will continue to learn more decoding strategies to help us solve unknown words.
