At a Loss for Words: What's Wrong with How Schools Teach Reading
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The Three-Kewing System Is the Way Poor Readers Read
In the United States today, this is how many children are being taught to read. According to David Kilpatrick, the 3Qing system is ubiquitous in American schools. Some kids realize pretty quickly that sounding out a word is the most efficient and reliable way to know what it is. Those kids tend to have good phonological skills. It's not difficult for them to understand the ways that sounds and letters work. But if this doesn't come easily to you, say you're Molly Woodworth, who we met at the beginning of the program. Reading for you is kind of like being a detective. You're hunting everywhere for clues. If teachers use the three-kewing system to teach
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