A group of bipartisan Georgia lawmakers — led by a freshman state senator and former high school principal— introduced a bill to ban the three-cueing system, a method of teaching reading where students decipher words based on meaning, context, grammatical structure and visual cues.
This method, otherwise known as MSV, involves first asking students to decipher words based on their possible meaning in the context of the sentence and the grammatical structure and syntax of the sentence overall. Then, the students rely on graphophonic cues, or looking at the letters in the word and sounding them out.
Senate Bill 93 would prohibit public schools and local school systems from using “any model of teaching students to read based on meaning, structure and syntax, and visual cues” as “a basis for teaching word reading.”
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