Are there reading specialists in MCPS middle schools?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Most reading specialists are only trained in balanced literacy approaches which means they are fairly useless in identifying kids who have reading issues and effective reading instruction. Our reading specialist was all about using the 3 cueing and cute “eagle eye” bookmarks to remind the kids to look at the pictures. SMH

This is absolutely not true. My school was allowed to use Orton Gillingham for a time and then the county said we were not allowed to teach OG phonics now we have to do it through their new really great reading phonics program