One a day, plus iron

Today I listened to a podcast called Sold a Story regarding the teaching of reading to children. If you don't have kids or don't know much about education, this approach to teaching reading used the idea that context, cue-ing strategies, and whatnot could better teach reading than, for example, explaining about phonics and teaching legit "decoding strategies" that help kids link the letter combos in front of them to the sounds of the words they already know. For a while, starting in the mid-eighties or whatever, this idea took prominence in the education world and it was kinda how they... taught reading.

Unfortunately, this method of "teaching reading" didn't do so well at actually teaching reading. And that's what the podcast is about.

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