Literacy: Banning Three-Cueing and Promoting Phonics
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The bill has rare bipartisan support from two very different senators and follows a national trend of states moving toward phonics-based instruction.
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Federal literacy grants (Comprehensive Literacy State Development Grants and School Improvement Grants) can no longer fund three-cueing, a method that has kids guess words from pictures or context instead of sounding them out. Grant recipients must instead use phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension instruction, which research generally shows helps more students, especially struggling readers, learn to read.
“will use the grant funds to implement, or support eligible entities that implement, instructional strategies and materials that focus on phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension”
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
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Document Type
Congressional Bill
Official Title
Improving America's Literacy Act
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