I don't think we disagree on that! But point taken that even the phrase "three-cueing" is an ideology, and I should be clear that I'm talking about "reading hack" culture, that there is a secret "better" way to teach reading available for a price, with the cultural characteristics of MLMs

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And I have no doubt that F&P improved test scores at the cost of actual constructed meaning! At least, in my experience it did at first. Because the entire mechanism is essentially serially testing kids and calling it reading instruction

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I agree that there aren't ideologues or fanatics out there, but I do think the whole situation says a lot about the corporate capture and why it continues to happen! If anything, the fact that SaS was so quickly coopted might even say more about the issue, which is susceptibility to trends

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Oh, totally! I have no doubt about that. When I experienced Fountas and Pinnell supremacy, it wasn't about their method at all—people loved the programmatic nature of the curriculum. The little library is cute, and the kids really liked it. That's what made it so hard to dislodge

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thank you for the birthday wishes, everyone!

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