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As reading scores fall, states turn to phonics � but not without a fight

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A student in the library reads a book after receiving candy and a red envelope in a cultural celebration of the Lunar New Year at Yung Wing School P.S. 124 on Feb. 02, 2022, in New York City.

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’s been popular for decades. The method, known as “three-cueing,� encourages kids to figure out unfamiliar words using context clues such as meaning, sentence structure and visual hints.



Stateline reporter Robbie Sequeira can be reached at [email protected].

Stateline is part of States Newsroom, a national nonprofit news organization focused on state policy.



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