A Key to the Terms. Cueing is a commonly used strategy in early reading instruction, in which teachers prompt students to draw on multiple sources of information to identify words. It's based on the now disproven theory that reading is a series of strategic guesses, informed by context clues.

What is cueing in writing?

The cues are: semantic cues, syntactic cues, and graphophonic cues. Semantic cues are cues that connect with a person's knowledge of the world around them, their vocabulary, or their general understanding of concepts and topics. Syntactic cues are any cues that assist a writer with proper grammar when writing.

What is wrong with the three cueing system?

The problem is that although giving children multiple strategies for figuring out unknown words may intuitively seem like a good idea, cueing methods do not complement phonetic reading but rather contradict it by pulling children's attention away from the specific sequence of letters in a word.