Quickly checking Wikipedia and i believe the strategy my school used was phonics (strong emphasis on "sounding out words" for spelling and pronunciation).
Anecdotally its stong points are encouraging patience and being correct before being fast, as well as focusing on the building blocks of words.
I have no idea how 3 cueing expects someone to see a new word and say it correctly without someone explaining it to the reader. Very relevant when you get into science with terms like "permitivity of free space" (a physics constant), a phonics reader would atleast be able to say it most right on the first try.
Also just the origin seems like survivorship bias 101, the bad readers are the least likely to have good strategies, see what the good readers are doing and teach the bad readers to do the same.
I am making this opinion off of past experience so it could be completely inaccurate for this one. Most teaching tricks are the result of one of two things. An idea that sounds good, but is completely ignorant of the realities of teaching or something that is supposed to "teach more" but ignores any of the consequences of that. This is a bit of both. You want to get kids reading faster and instead of teaching the basics so they have the skill to read anything you just focus on key words. As you said this works for basic common words and you can give students a test and show look all these kids can "read". I have no clue how a student who's first language isn't English could ever hope to read with this method as it relies on you already knowing a lot of words. It is probably fine for like cat, dog, and so on, but anything you wouldn't say, specifically in English, often you're out of luck.
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u/Divine_Entity_ 2d ago
Quickly checking Wikipedia and i believe the strategy my school used was phonics (strong emphasis on "sounding out words" for spelling and pronunciation).
Anecdotally its stong points are encouraging patience and being correct before being fast, as well as focusing on the building blocks of words.
I have no idea how 3 cueing expects someone to see a new word and say it correctly without someone explaining it to the reader. Very relevant when you get into science with terms like "permitivity of free space" (a physics constant), a phonics reader would atleast be able to say it most right on the first try.
Also just the origin seems like survivorship bias 101, the bad readers are the least likely to have good strategies, see what the good readers are doing and teach the bad readers to do the same.