THE THREE READING CUEING SYSTEMS

 

Good readers use three cueing systems while reading: syntactic (structure), graphophonic (visual), and semantic (meaning). Struggling readers tend to rely mostly on the visual cueing system.

To develop the systems your child is not using, you can provide the following prompts:

Meaning

Did that make sense?


Look at the pictures.


What do you think it might be?


Can you re-read this?

 

Structure

Did that sound right?


Can you re-read that?


Can you say it another way?


What is another word that might fit here?

 

Visual

Does it look right?


What sound does it start with?


Can you point to ________ ?


Point to the words.


Take a closer look at __________ .


It could be __________, but look at _________ .