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As reading scores fall, states turn to phonics

A bipartisan wave of state-level changes is gaining momentum

Education Learning to Read

Richard Evans helps a student sound out a word Oct. 20, 2022, during a class reading circle at Hyde Park Elementary School in Niagara Falls, N.Y.

As states rush to address falling literacy scores, a new kind of education debate in state legislatures is taking hold: not whether reading instruction needs fixing, but how to fix it.

More than a dozen states have enacted laws banning public school educators from teaching youngsters to read using an approach that has been popular for decades. The method, known as “three-cueing,� encourages students to learn unfamiliar words using context clues, such as meaning, sentence structure and visual hints.





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