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Three-Cueing and the Law
Teacher Question: What is your thinking on teaching cueing systems? Shanahan Response: When I was a young boy, I learned about King Canute. He was the one who revealed the limits of his power by ordering the tides not to come in. They came in anyway. More about that later. This question about cueing systems was posed to me a couple of weeks ago by a colleague I hadn’t spoken with in a long time. I wasn’t surprised by his question. He knew I was a fan of explicit phonics instruction and over the past couple years some states have banned three-cueing. I’ve written about ...