Woman in the article with a genuine and apparently severe reading disability talking about how she taught herself to read as a child too ashamed to ask for help because she was brilliant and excelling everywhere else in the 1990's:
Strategy 1: Memorize as many words as possible. "Words were like pictures to me," she said. "I had a really good memory."
Strategy 2: Guess the words based on context. If she came across a word she didn't have in her visual memory bank, she'd look at the first letter and come up with a word that seemed to make sense. Reading was kind of like a game of 20 Questions: What word could this be?
Strategy 3: If all else failed, she'd skip the words she didn't know.
That same woman observing her child being taught to read by a teacher in 2019:
"I thought, 'Oh my God, those are my strategies.' Those are the things I taught myself to look like a good reader, not the things that good readers do," she said. "These kids were being taught my dirty little secrets."
Children should not be taught how to read with the half-assed, impromptu methods a child bad at it uses to cope on their own and make up for their inability. That will NEVER teach them to read the right way.
Goodman rejected the idea that reading is a precise process that involves exact or detailed perception of letters or words. Instead, he argued that as people read, they make predictions about the words on the page using these three cues:
graphic cues (what do the letters tell you about what the word might be?)
syntactic cues (what kind of word could it be, for example, a noun or a verb?)
semantic cues (what word would make sense here, based on the context?)
This is a deeply egotistical man with a learning disability trying to validate himself and make himself the norm.
There's nothing wrong with a learning disability of any kind, but forcing the way someone copes with that to be the way EVERYONE is taught the material is.
Reading and writing ARE precise processes with clear steps and guidelines, not a GUESSING GAME.
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