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How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids in the US to be poor readers
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this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2024
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I admit I only read about half of it, but I don't think the second half could convince me why anyone would ever think this concept works.
If you teach children to guess based on the pictures, they are not reading - that much should be obvious. I'm confused how they would even start to read anything without pictures. You cannot guess based on the context if you cannot read deep enough to establish one, even worse your context could be wrong.
However, the worst advice is to skip words. You're not learning new words if you skip anything you don't know already.
The article only hints at this in the end, but there's a lot of money to be made in selling learning material to schools.
My opinion: While the origins of the "three cueing" method may have been well intentioned I'm guessing lobbying and kickbacks are what's keeping it in schools, not it's effectiveness.
There is also the fact that the resistance to classic phonics in the USA developed as an anti-Bush stance during the 2000s. People thought they were taking a progressive stance against his family's conservative ideas about reading by adopting the cueing methods.
Turns out his family's passionate attack against cueing was actually completely justified even by the science of the time, let alone what we know now.
Bush is not a good guy but partisanship has ruined multiple generations of Americans' ability to read, and this cueing bullshit has been leaking into other countries too.
That's crazy
Source that it was a result of anti-Bush? This was around way before him.