Now this may do no harm to the well-organized little girl with above average visual memory, although she may well grow up to be a very good reader and a very poor speller. But for the average child, not to say the weakly lateralized little boy, this can be a disaster. I submit that today's country-wide reading crisis is in part caused by not using methods based on what is actually going on in the brain of a child as he does the cognitive tasks that school imposes on him. Until reading is taught like the sequential task that it is, poor readers will result. All the federal funding and suitable texts in the world won't help the child who is inadvertently using the wrong side of his brain to do the job.
Poor readers become discipline problems with low self -esteem.
Check out the link between low readers and time in jail. I am quoting and summarizing two other articles that reinforce this.