How teaching kids to read went so wrong | Season 1, Episode 1: The Problem

Lee Gaul watches his daughter’s lessons during Zoom school and discovers a dismaying truth: She can’t read. Little Zoe isn’t the only one. Sixty-five percent of fourth graders in the United States are not proficient readers. Scientific research proves that children need to learn phonics to become good readers. Yet many schools teach children to use other strategies, such as looking at pictures and considering context to guess words — a system known as cueing, or three-cueing. In the first episode of Sold a Story, Emily Hanford investigates why so many schools use literacy programs that run counter to science. Episode transcript https://www.apmreports.org/episode/20... Want to know more about the science of reading? https://www.apmreports.org/story/2022... Watch: The story behind Sold a Story    • The story behind Sold a Story   Organize: Sold a Story discussion guides https://features.apmreports.org/sold-... Support: Donate to APM Reports https://support.americanpublicmedia.o... Dive deeper into Sold a Story with a multi-part extra credit email series from Emily Hanford https://features.apmreports.org/sold-...