When will DC area privates dump Lucy Calkins curricula ?
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Anonymous
| How is writing approached in schools that adopt SoR? Writing being part of literacy as well. |
Anonymous
| Agreed with the previous post. No doubt, it was time to rebalance literacy instruction. Tompkins (2011) explained that reading, phonemic awareness and phonics, literacy strategies, vocabulary, comprehension, literature, content-area study, oral language, writing and spelling should all be included in a balanced literacy program. Many schools did not include phonemic awareness and phonics instruction over the past decade, although Calkin’s curriculum did include Phonics Units of Study (far from best phonics curriculum). There is now a need to rebalance literacy instruction by ensuring schools have explicit phonics and phonemic awareness instruction without setting aside comprehension, writing, and spelling, for example. Many private schools uses an explicit phonics (“SoR”) program like OG or Fundations AND Units of Study, which is a balance. If schools move entirely to “SoR” as it’s being defined, we will need another rebalance in the next decade. |
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[quote=Anonymous]Agreed with the previous post. No doubt, it was time to rebalance literacy instruction. Tompkins (2011) explained that reading, phonemic awareness and phonics, literacy strategies, vocabulary, comprehension, literature, content-area study, oral language, writing and spelling should all be included in a balanced literacy program. Many schools did not include phonemic awareness and phonics instruction over the past decade, although Calkin’s curriculum did include Phonics Units of Study (far from best phonics curriculum). There is now a need to rebalance literacy instruction by ensuring schools have explicit phonics and phonemic awareness instruction without setting aside comprehension, writing, and spelling, for example. Many private schools uses an explicit phonics (“SoR”) program like OG or Fundations AND Units of Study, which is a balance. If schools move entirely to “SoR” as it’s being defined, we will need another rebalance in the next decade.[/quote]
Not just for a decade. Whole language type instruction with little emphasis on phonics and phonemic awareness was in place at least as far back as 1990. |
Anonymous
+ 1 million |
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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Agreed with the previous post. No doubt, it was time to rebalance literacy instruction. Tompkins (2011) explained that reading, phonemic awareness and phonics, literacy strategies, vocabulary, comprehension, literature, content-area study, oral language, writing and spelling should all be included in a balanced literacy program. Many schools did not include phonemic awareness and phonics instruction over the past decade, although Calkin’s curriculum did include Phonics Units of Study (far from best phonics curriculum). There is now a need to rebalance literacy instruction by ensuring schools have explicit phonics and phonemic awareness instruction without setting aside comprehension, writing, and spelling, for example. Many private schools uses an explicit phonics (“SoR”) program like OG or Fundations AND Units of Study, which is a balance. If schools move entirely to “SoR” as it’s being defined, we will need another rebalance in the next decade.[/quote]
Not just for a decade. Whole language type instruction with little emphasis on phonics and phonemic awareness was in place at least as far back as 1990.[/quote] This is correct, but the Units of Study in Reading first launched a decade ago (thread was originally about Lucy Calkin’s curriculum, not broader whole language approach). |
Anonymous
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No matter what other poster keeps saying, BL does NOT have any scientific data supporting their claims. In actual practice, as implemented in real schools, BL had similar issues and the same lack of scientific basis as either LC or WL.
SoR is more than JUST Phonics; it does include comprehension and various other components. Most importantly it DOES have scientific studies with good sample sizes and reasonable statistical controls showing it works for all students. |
Anonymous
| So why not go back to what worked for decades before all of this insane confusion - strict phonics. Gotta love education in America - amazing how the world’s “greatest” country has the dumbest education system and educators! |
Anonymous
Retired admin and teachers who juiced their pensions their last three years of work can’t get away from going in to mashing up and rebranding new ELA and maths curricula. $$$$$$$ charged to large and small, public and private school systems who go to phony conferences “on the latest thing”. Only in America. Of course. |
Anonymous
| Our school is too busy doing its social mission to worry about the basics. |
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For what it is worth, the UK and Australia only moved back to Phonics-centred reading approaches in the past few years.
They also had dropped reading curricula which worked well, and only recently have moved back to what actually works for all students… |
Anonymous
Interesting. Seems like the entirety of the “West” lost its mind around teaching literacy for a good bit. But whose to say they won’t adopt some new stupid curriculum? |
Anonymous
Right, as many are. Which school, if you don’t mind me asking, so we can avoid? |
Anonymous
Well, it's the same body of reading research that SoR built upon and expanded, but you do you. And agree, that in the right hands SoR would be more than JUST phonics. In the wrong hands, it might be JUST phonics. |
Anonymous
Translation: Duh, how do you walk and chew gum at the same time? |
Anonymous
Small class sizes and arts and music aren’t worth it if your kid is actively falling behind and no one noticed because they follow one of these curriculums with minimal phonics. Kids who aren’t great readers by end of 3rd grade will have it far worse moving forward. - mom who actively sought out a SEL, joyful, artsy, non hurried child school and then realized they were woefully ill equipped to teach the basics |