COLUMBUS, Ohio – This school year, 1.6 million Ohio public, charter and STEM school students and 60,000 teachers must pivot their approach to literacy to align with the so-called “science of reading.”
The mandated change came in 2023 from Gov. Mike DeWine and the Ohio General Assembly. They became convinced the science of reading, which emphasizes phonics and vocabulary, is superior to the decades-long approach to literacy education known as “three cueing,” “whole language” or “balanced literacy.” The previous approach generally emphasizes meaning from context, visual information and syntax, which is word and sentence order, subject-verb agreement and verb tenses.
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