Nope. A huge chunk of the country switched to teaching kids to guess from pictures, because adults don't like the sound of kids sounding out words, and the folk

Nope. A huge chunk of the country switched to teaching kids to guess from pictures, because adults don't like the sound of kids sounding out words, and the folks selling that idea had some pretty slick marketing. A whole bunch of school districts are juuuuuust now figuring out it was a dumb idea and replacing it. https://www.fountasandpinnell.com/textlevelgradient/ https://www.fountasandpinnell.com/textlevelgradient/ From all the gobbledygook on that page you'd be forgiven for mistaking this for an evidence-based technique to teach reading. It isn't. But Heinemann continues to defend it as if it is.