Textbooks (3rd - 5th, science and social studies)

[Anonymous]

I grew up in a country where students still receive textbooks every semester in public schools. I am so annoyed that my kids don't have any. What if they forget which tribe lived in the southwestern coastal plain of Virginia, or one of the 7 types of erosion? They threw away all worksheets and I don't think they can access PDF textbooks from last year, if they even had PDF versions. I want to purchase hard copy textbooks (not workbooks) for at least 3rd to 5th grade science and social studies. Thinner textbooks are better. Do you have any recommendations? My kids go to ACPS if that matters. Thank you.

[Anonymous]

Do they use any textbooks in school? If so, the ISBN number on the back of the book is the identifying number and you could purchase your own. If the teacher is only using handouts, I don’t know what you can do. Maybe others can chime in.

[Anonymous]

It is exceedingly frustrating. I think my kids are being taught more than someone at Teachers Pay Teachers than by any research based textbook. Especially math!!! How can they not use textbooks for math? That's crazy!

[Anonymous]

Just buy your own curriculum. Check out SRA direct instruction series. It’s designed to be used as a group or a 1:1 setting. If nobody is using textbooks you may as well homeschool because not all kids learn from a screen as well as they do from a book.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just buy your own curriculum. Check out SRA direct instruction series. It’s designed to be used as a group or a 1:1 setting. If nobody is using textbooks you may as well homeschool because not all kids learn from a screen as well as they do from a book.

+1 Agree. Get ahead of this and buy your own curriculum. It doesn't take a lot of time to supplement in elementary.

[Anonymous]

You can ask the teacher if there are textbooks and if so can you have one for your child. Expect pushback. But you might be surprised to learn that the classes actually have textbooks, they might often even be somewhere in the classroom, they are just not used.

[Anonymous]

ACPS K-5 Social Studies textbooks are on Clever. The app is FivePonds Press.
There are not textbooks for ACPS science or math. Go figure!