Three-cueing
A reading strategy prompting children to guess words from meaning, sentence structure and visual cues; several states have banned it in favour of phonics.
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- United States
- Topic
- Teaching and learning
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- Balanced literacy United States
- A literacy approach combining whole-language and phonics elements, including guided reading and leveled books; criticised by science of reading advocates.
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