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She hated the concept of... teaching what sounds letters make? Was she a big proponent of cuing, or something else?
She disliked a lot of the newer methods of teaching, so I'm guessing she preferred whatever was before that. The only one she named really was the New Math and I'm positive the New Math was pretty old by the time I was taught it. Have you ever watch Lehrer's song New Math? That's what I was taught, and if it was new then, it was ancient when I got to it!
Oh phonics is the old one (although it's making a comeback). The "new" one that they've been promoting for a couple decades (and have recently realized isn't very good) is cueing, the one where you just show kids words and encourage them to use context clues to guess what they mean, and hope that they eventually learn to read by doing that. Phonics is the one where you start with letter (and letter group) sounds and learn to sound out words by reading out loud.
It was new at the time! Or maybe. While the education I got was pretty good, it was eclectic. I only remember learning math. I picked up language before solid memories form. I also sort of have some brain uh. Problems.
I liked moving the tens to the ones place. I think these days kids are doing some kind of cube thing? Seems neat!