Reading Pedagogy at DCPS Elementary?

[Anonymous]

Talk to your school about the K curriculum. I don’t know what our school did for PK but they definitely used phonics (Fundations) for K and up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lord, every parent listened to that podcast and now deems themself a reading specialist.

Agree! It’s comical. They’ve “done their own research” and now are experts.

So silly of parents to want their kids to learn to read!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lord, every parent listened to that podcast and now deems themself a reading specialist.

Agree! It’s comical. They’ve “done their own research” and now are experts.

So silly of parents to want their kids to learn to read!

Yet in almost every other jurisdiction of the country they don't get free public school until Kindergarten

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lord, every parent listened to that podcast and now deems themself a reading specialist.

Agree! It’s comical. They’ve “done their own research” and now are experts.

So silly of parents to want their kids to learn to read!

Yet in almost every other jurisdiction of the country they don't get free public school until Kindergarten

So who cares how time is spent in PK because some other kids (often with better resources at home) don't have it?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lord, every parent listened to that podcast and now deems themself a reading specialist.

Agree! It’s comical. They’ve “done their own research” and now are experts.

So silly of parents to want their kids to learn to read!

Seriously. This is the weirdest parent shame ever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DCPS only uses science of reading-aligned curricula.

To all the parents saying the OP is wrong simply because they listened to a podcast, you are actually the ones who are wrong .

No one is saying they're wrong because they listened to one podcast, they're saying one podcast does not make you an expert.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCPS only uses science of reading-aligned curricula.

To all the parents saying the OP is wrong simply because they listened to a podcast, you are actually the ones who are wrong .

No one is saying they're wrong because they listened to one podcast, they're saying one podcast does not make you an expert.

And yet...OP's concern is well-founded.

[Anonymous]

DCPS schools us fundations and heggarty for phonics. This doesn’t mean individual teachers might not still do whole language type stuff but the resources are there for the DCPS classrooms. I know at Takoma both are being used with my child.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCPS only uses science of reading-aligned curricula.

To all the parents saying the OP is wrong simply because they listened to a podcast, you are actually the ones who are wrong .

No one is saying they're wrong because they listened to one podcast, they're saying one podcast does not make you an expert.

And yet...OP's concern is well-founded.

Their concern and the entire thread is silly. The navel gazing on pedagogy should preserved for EdD candidates and others who spend their time outside classrooms. Parents who want to wax philosophic about this stuff in the context of DCPS are ignorant of the realities of public education, especially in DC. DC schools are filled with food insecure kids from unstable homes with parents and guardians that haven't been reading to them in utero. Educators in DC are triaging a ton of systemic and societal problems. These get worse as time goes on. If the wanna be public policy experts on this thread knew a darn thing beyond their under 5 year olds they'd realize how silly then entire discussion is. Instead, you all vomit the daily drivel of "deep thinkers" with 3 year olds who think they have a clue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCPS only uses science of reading-aligned curricula.

To all the parents saying the OP is wrong simply because they listened to a podcast, you are actually the ones who are wrong .

No one is saying they're wrong because they listened to one podcast, they're saying one podcast does not make you an expert.

And yet...OP's concern is well-founded.

Their concern and the entire thread is silly. The navel gazing on pedagogy should preserved for EdD candidates and others who spend their time outside classrooms. Parents who want to wax philosophic about this stuff in the context of DCPS are ignorant of the realities of public education, especially in DC. DC schools are filled with food insecure kids from unstable homes with parents and guardians that haven't been reading to them in utero. Educators in DC are triaging a ton of systemic and societal problems. These get worse as time goes on. If the wanna be public policy experts on this thread knew a darn thing beyond their under 5 year olds they'd realize how silly then entire discussion is. Instead, you all vomit the daily drivel of "deep thinkers" with 3 year olds who think they have a clue.

The state of DC and DCPS's priorities is exactly why a parent should be thinking about this! If one's own child has different fundamental needs than the majority of students at a school, then they should probably pick a different school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Lord, every parent listened to that podcast and now deems themself a reading specialist.

Agree! It’s comical. They’ve “done their own research” and now are experts.

So silly of parents to want their kids to learn to read!

I didn’t want my kid to learn to read in Prek, which is why I sent him to a private preschool to play, have fun, and learn to be a nice person. He’s in 10th grade now and reads at a college level. Reading early is a waste of time. There’s plenty of time to sit still at a desk. It’s not very friendly to boys either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Totally depends on the school even with DCPS. SWS is all Lucy Calkins. 3 blocks away, LT is all phonics. I think, like the rest of the country, DCPS has started to turn back towards phonics and pushes, e.g., fundations curriculum in that vein. But it 100% varies.

SWS teaches phonics (Heggerty, Fundations).

Only recently and very grudgingly.

[Anonymous]

Our charter is almost 100% phonics - and we hate it. There is no balanced literacy - it's all drill, baby, drill.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our charter is almost 100% phonics - and we hate it. There is no balanced literacy - it's all drill, baby, drill.

This is the way

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our charter is almost 100% phonics - and we hate it. There is no balanced literacy - it's all drill, baby, drill.

This is the way

...to make children hate reading...to bore children out of their skulls...to degrade the value of literature and great books...