“3-Cueing” — also Called “Whole Word.”

At a Loss for Words is a very informative article by Emily Hanford posted in 2019. A summary of the problems connected with 3-Cueing concludes with her personal interview of Ken Goodman, its creator. In his opinion, meaning in context is more important than actually being able to pronounce or even use the right word.  He offers the example of a child seeing the word “horse” and saying “pony” instead. To him using the correct word seems to be unimportant. Please read or listen to the audio on Hanford’s Educate podcast. Click this link:

https://www.apmreports.org/episode/2019/08/22/whats-wrong-how-schools-teach-reading#:~:text=It's%20been%20more%20than%2050,theory%20in%20that%201967%20paper

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