Please help us by contating the Georgia House and Senate Education Committee members (for all email addresses please click through to full update!) and asking them to VOTE YES for GA House Bill 307 and GA Senate Bill 93. These bills would STOP 3-Cueing in GA. Three-cueing is harmful as it teaches students to guess at the words, instead of decoding them.  Three-cueing is NOT aligned with reading science and studies have shown this method is harmful for all students learning to read, especially students with dyslexia and other disabilities. Please click through to read more and to access our list of all the Education Committee email addresses, so you can reach out and ask our legislators to please support House Bill 307 and Senate Bill 93. 

For more information on 3-Cueing and how harmful it is for our children who are learning to read: https://features.apmreports.org/sold-a-story/ 

Put Georgia’s Children First: Ban Harmful 3-Cueing Curricula & 3-Cueing Practices in Georgia

VOTE YES on HB307 and SB93

• What is 3-Cueing: The 3-Cueing method and 3-Cueing reading programs teach students to guess words based on context or pictures rather than explicitly teaching phonics and sound-letter relationships, which hinders reading development.
• 3-Cueing practices and curricula are banned in 11 states and counting: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Indiana, Louisiana, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Texas, West Virginia and Wisconsin. Additionally, Florida, North Carolina, Texas, Virginia, and Wisconsin also banned it from teacher preparation programs. As of December 2024 at least 14 states banned 3-Cueing from parts of the education system. 
• Marietta City Schools banned 3-Cueing materials and shifted their instructional practices to fully align with the science of reading in 2021. Thanks to ongoing and intensive professional development in Structured Literacy, the support of highly trained Literacy Coaches at every school, and the removal of all 3-Cueing practices and materials, Marietta’s reading scores have increased five times higher than the state average. The success affects ALL students across ALL demographic groups: Black, Economically Disadvantaged, Students with Disabilities all saw double-digit gains in proficient literacy rates. 
  Louisiana banned 3-Cueing practices in 2022 - and saw the biggest gain of all NAEP scores in 2024.
• The 3-Cueing approach to reading instruction originated in New Zealand with Marie Clay (Reading Recovery’s founder) and it is banned from the entire country now. Three-Cueing was first implemented in the United States in Ohio, which has now banned the practice. As 3-Cueing is eradicated from its origin, it continues to surface in places that are unaware of its damaging effects.
• A 2022 study by reading science researcher Henry May showed that students who had received 3-Cueing intervention (Reading Recovery), despite some initial progress, actually ended up worse-off - performing worse in third and fourth grade than students who received no intervention at all. He repeated the study several times to confirm this outcome. 

GA House and Senate Education Committee Emails: 

carmen.rice@house.ga.gov  

latricia.howard@house.ga.gov 

scott.hilton@house.ga.gov   

segun.adeyina@house.ga.gov  

chanita.coleman@house.ga.gov 

bethany.ballard@house.ga.gov  

chelsea.bell@house.ga.gov 

doreen.carter@house.ga.gov  

josephine.lamar@house.ga.gov 

mike.cheokas@house.ga.gov  

ronny.pouliot@house.ga.gov 

david.clark@house.ga.gov  

latricia.howard@house.ga.gov 

brent.cox@house.ga.gov  

shakirah.nash@house.ga.gov 

sandy.donatucci@house.ga.gov  

shaniqua.johnson@house.ga.gov 

matt.dubnik@house.ga.gov  

andrew.smith@house.ga.gov 

lydia.glaize@house.ga.gov  

jacquelyn.rowe@house.ga.gov 

karlton.howard@house.ga.gov    

rick.jasperse@house.ga.gov  

carmen.champion@house.ga.gov 

jan.jones@house.ga.gov  

emily.beals@house.ga.gov 

todd.jones@house.ga.gov  

stacy.williams@house.ga.gov 

karen.lupton@house.ga.gov  

kim.wideman@house.ga.gov 

phil.olaleye@house.ga.gov  

josephine.lamar@house.ga.gov 

miriam.paris@house.ga.gov  

grace.phinney@house.ga.gov 

rick.townsend@house.ga.gov  

shaniqua.johnson@house.ga.gov 

will.wade@house.ga.gov  

sean.floyd@house.ga.gov 

david.wilkerson@house.ga.gov  

kim.wideman@house.ga.gov

billyh@dhhccpa.com  

sophia.bhalla@senate.ga.gov 

chuck.payne@senate.ga.gov  

petros.yemane@senate.ga.gov 

freddie.sims@senate.ga.gov  

samaria.milton@senate.ga.gov 

timothy.bearden@senate.ga.gov  

jacqueline.leathers@senate.ga.gov 

clint.dixon@senate.ga.gov  

rachel.whitted@senate.ga.gov 

greg.dolezal@senate.ga.gov  

orla.fennell@senate.ga.gov 

sonya.halpern@senate.ga.gov  

paige.mckenna@senate.ga.gov 

bo.hatchett@senate.ga.gov  

brenita.simmons@senate.ga.gov 

donzella.james@senate.ga.gov  

diego.santana@senate.ga.gov 

rashaun.kemp@senate.ga.gov  

elena.parent@senate.ga.gov  

paige.terhune@senate.ga.gov 

ed.setzler@senate.ga.gov  

nathan.teasley@senate.ga.gov 

shawn.still@senate.ga.gov