Allie Beth Stuckey

And so this approach relies on repetition, exposure, visual memorization for children to learn new words.

They, again, kind of like the other method we were talking about, they're taught to guess words based on context, pictures, and cues.

And this is called three, it's a technique called three cueing.

Okay.

So they're looking at context clues.

And there is some truth to this method because if you are a reader, whether you're just a good reader as a child or you're reading as an adult, it is true that we do not sound out every word and you shouldn't.

You actually do want to move beyond being able to just or having to sound out every word that you're reading.

Like you want to be able to deduce what a word says based on the context, based on the words around it, based on some of the letters that you see that makes you a quicker reader.

But that is not how we teach reading to kids exclusively reading.

at a young age.

Because if this is all that you're teaching kids, then they don't actually know how to approach unfamiliar words.

Guessing based on context is not sufficient when there is no context.

Students need a really firm grounding on phonics and phonics specifically so they can tackle unfamiliar words.

That is actually, in my opinion,

And I think a lot of teachers out there would agree with me.

The phonics are the foundation.

And then you kind of graduate to the being able to deduce words.

And honestly, I could see those happening at the same time.

But any reading method that forgoes phonics altogether is setting kids up for failure.

So I've got a spiel.