I'm afraid you're decades late for something similar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_language One of the teac

I'm afraid you're decades late for something similar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_language https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whole_language One of the teaching methods is "look at the context, like pictures, and guess what the word is". One example I remember was thinking "pony" is "horse" due to association without being able to sound it out.