I’m looking for courses or resources that can help academically talented college-aged readers who learned to read with cueing methods to improve the accuracy of their reading skills, and would appreciate any suggestions the BlueSky community might have. Details below. 🧵 1/11 - ThreadSky

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slc-scott.bsky.social • 16 days ago

I’m looking for courses or resources that can help academically talented college-aged readers who learned to read with cueing methods to improve the accuracy of their reading skills, and would appreciate any suggestions the BlueSky community might have. Details below. 🧵 1/11

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slc-scott.bsky.social•16 days ago

Cueing methods of learning to read have been used for years, but there’s considerable scholarship suggesting they’re less effective than traditional phonics or whole-word methods, and can even reduce the effectiveness of other techniques when used in combination with them. 2/11

slc-scott.bsky.social•16 days ago

Here’s a good article on the topic: https://www.apmreports.org/episode/2019/08/22/whats-wrong-how-schools-teach-reading 3/11

slc-scott.bsky.social•16 days ago

I work with pre-med students preparing for the MCAT (the admissions test for US and Canadian medical schools). Many of these students learned reading by the cueing method. They are now academic stars with strong grades. Some participate in scientific research, and have coauthored papers. 4/11

slc-scott.bsky.social•16 days ago

Their reading skills are sufficient to read a textbook or even a journal article. Since cueing teaches a reliance on context, they’re fine at seeing the forest rather than the trees, a skill that was sometimes difficult for earlier generations. 5/11

slc-scott.bsky.social•16 days ago

But cueing is much more problematic for a test comprising short passages followed by multiple choice questions. If an answer choice says “Because Cl has high electropositivity” when they expect it to say “Because Cl has high electronegativity,” cueing can cause them to read it incorrectly. 6/11

slc-scott.bsky.social•16 days ago

It’s not that these students can’t sound out a word; it’s that, reading the way they usually do, they don’t, substituting what they think the word “should” be without consciously being aware of it. 7/11

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