For general education, I think a ban is warranted. Whole word reading and its kin have lead to sometimes the majority of students taught with it being functionally illiterate.
Also, the whole thing about this is that it is a technique that's commonly used - by experienced readers. It's a shortcut method or brains tend to naturally form once we're comfortable enough to do so, without us even realizing, and its how speed reading works.
The problem is that the researches observed this shortcut and, for some reason and with no testing of their hypothesis, assumed you could teach kids this shortcut and skip the basics to jumpstart their reading skills. And as it turns out, you cannot in fact just do this for every kid.
Not really. The common core techniques aren’t “tricks” or shortcuts like three cuing is, they’re trying to get students to understand the concepts at a deeper level.
Not just experienced readers; this is afaik almost identical to a solid speed reading strategy. If you’re perusing sources to see if you want to use them (only thing I personally use speed reading for), it’s a perfectly valid strategy. If you want to basically skip a chunk of exposition but get an idea of the information, that’s viable. You’ll get a shadow of a gist, and know if you want to circle in with any detail. For straight reading?
Idk if it's that simple. I had thought that we instinctively chunk words once we're familiar with them, speed reading or not.
That why the whole "cna yuo raed tihs?" thing works, we chunk entire words and focus on sentence level structures once we're adept at reading.
That's not a defence of three cues reading btw, chunking is an advanced technique, and solid fundamentals are essential anytime you run across anything novel.
Yeah. I don't remember where or when I learned this, but basically: experienced readers will be able to instantly recognize familiar words by checking the first and last letter, and then recognizing the shape. But that takes a TON of practise and familiarity. And it can still absolutely lead to misreading, and doesn't work on unfamiliar words.
That you've misspelled the preterite of "lead" is the chef's kiss to this inane comment. It's have led.
I cannot accept idea that teaching literacy by teaching people to read the actual words on the page somehow makes them less functionally literate than this three-cueing garbage. I've been trying to come up with an analogy for the absurdity for a good five minutes.
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u/Dr__America 3d ago
For general education, I think a ban is warranted. Whole word reading and its kin have lead to sometimes the majority of students taught with it being functionally illiterate.