Red Flag 1.1- Three Cueing

Red Flag: Three cueing-systems are taught as strategies for decoding in early grades (i.e., directing students to use picture cues, context cues, or attend to the first letter of a word as a cue.)

There are many examples of all three cueing strategies utilized throughout various ARC materials. This includes in: books (Word Attack Strategies), IRLA assessments, and skills cards (both Yellow and Green).

Word Attack Strategies or "Tips for Tricky Words" are in the back of many ARC books. These strategies are ineffective as the primary method to recognize words.

The IRLA Assessments also included direct guidance for students to use pictures to decode words, in both the yellow and green levels. Image below is of a Green assessment.

In this video, from American Reading at Home's YouTube page, you can see the cueing strategies of using the first letter and the picture to "read" this book.

This video also demonstrates how cueing methods encourage:

memorization
guessing
relying on pictures

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