This bad advice dates back to the 1960s Whole Language nonsense that literacy is ‘caught not taught’ through exposure to ...
‘You can't polish a turd’: why is one education department still pushing balanced literacy?
It's 2022, and every child starting school in Victoria has just been given a 'Prep bag' including a literacy and numeracy brochure advising parents to help children work out difficult words by saying, “Look at the picture. What word makes sense?”
