3-cueing is still being used in some places, although there's been strong pushback in the last couple of years. 3-cueing isn't the main problem though these da

3-cueing is still being used in some places, although there's been strong pushback in the last couple of years. 3-cueing isn't the main problem though these days IMHO. It's "balanced literacy" reading instruction strategies that try to find a middle ground with phonics and either cueing or whole word reading. My daughter's school for example did a lot of phonics to start, but then inexplicably transitioned to teaching a weird strategy where you look at the shape of the word and the first letter and guess, using pictures to help if available, and then only as a last resort, sound it out. It baffles the mind. (If it worked, I wouldn't object, but too often it ended up with attempts to utter "decoded" words that were quite far off from the actual text of the word.)