Sounds like a bastardization of route memorization....
Perfect to keep a future generation enslaved and thinking like robots...
They don’t teach critical thinking skills anymore, just mindless repetition.
This actually is very close to the ‘reading instruction’ that the National Socialist regime tried to institutionalize in the General government rump polish state. While the war kept it from being completed because of lack of many specially printed books the program consisted of having children instructed in memorizing a few hundred words and about a hundred German cognates. The reading primers that were designed for this look like black and white version of ‘Dick and Jane’ except the situations in them dealt with practical matters such as being punctual and working hard for the German overlords. The goal was other than in specific technical areas such as wood working or engine repair to keep the learning level at about third grade and produce an obedient dumbed downed mass of serfs to serve the Reich. Sounds familiar doesn't it.