It's a terrible way to learn. The example of context based words mentioned just doesn't work: "For example, a child who says "horse" when the word was "house"

It's a terrible way to learn. The example of context based words mentioned just doesn't work: "For example, a child who says "horse" when the word was "house" is probably relying too much on visual, or graphic, cues. A teacher in this case would encourage the child to pay more attention to what word would make sense in the sentence." This sentence could be either: "The man climbed onto the horse". "The man climbed onto the house". Both make sense. Appalling. "For Goodman, accurate word recognition was not necessarily the goal of reading. The goal was to comprehend text. If the sentences were making sense, the reader must be getting the words right, or right enough." But text is made up of words, so if you cannot recognise the words the text will not make sense. "right enough" isn't good enough for text because subtle variations in spellings completely change the meaning, eg. bought / brought which everyone I know gets wrong - they mean completely different things. Also, skipping words seems like an extremely stupid thing to do because the word could be the crux of the sentence. Without knowing what the word is, the sentence will lose its full meaning and make the entire sentence pointless. If skipping words is the "solution" to difficult words, surely this will reinforce the "skipping" concept so that any difficult word is skipped and their reading will not ever improve.