s a former schoolteacher, Missy Purcell was puzzled as she watched her first grader trying to read at home.
Rather than sounding the words out, she said she saw her son Matthew guessing words using pictures on the page.
“He was reading pictures,” she said. “He was being cued by the pictures.”
Matthew was a few months into a program for students struggling with reading and was using a reading method called “three cueing,” where kids are often encouraged to sample the letters and the words in the text, relying mostly on prediction and context for comprehension.
