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For years, schools taught reading using approaches that de-emphasized phonics and encouraged strategies such as guessing words based on context clues.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 13, 2026
It abandoned the hokum that convinced educators that they could teach kids to read through pictures and context clues rather than decoding words.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 21, 2026
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- textual evidence
- linguistic cues
- situational information
- sentence helpers
- word hints
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- a total mystery
- direct definition
- flying blind
- decontextualization
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