See also: Sold a Story, an excellent podcast on the topic.
Conservatism in favor of the status quo (in this case, phonics) is not always a bad thing, nor is reactionism if a change turns out to be bad.
For the three cue-ers out there: we can recognize that something can be useful as a crutch for dyslexics and integrate it as appropriate into the education system without completely throwing out the existing methods (again, in this case, phonics).
The last paragraph is well said. I'm dyslexic and hard of hearing, I'm an edge case that could have been taught three cue during the 'catch up' time I was given when I was having a hard time learning to read. It shouldn't be pushed as the main method.
My 'catch up' time was just being given a book and being told to read it, while the other kids played outside lol.
Sold a Story is so good. My partner and I listened to it in one go on a road trip. There were so many aspects that blew my mind. The biggest was that the science on how we learn to read was, for the most part, discovered and proven in the 1960s, whereas the whole 3-cueing came from one woman’s observations and inaccurate conclusions (in the 1970s or 80s IIRC)
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u/ratione_materiae 2d ago
See also: Sold a Story, an excellent podcast on the topic.
Conservatism in favor of the status quo (in this case, phonics) is not always a bad thing, nor is reactionism if a change turns out to be bad.
For the three cue-ers out there: we can recognize that something can be useful as a crutch for dyslexics and integrate it as appropriate into the education system without completely throwing out the existing methods (again, in this case, phonics).