Is it on parents to teach kids to read?

[Anonymous]

Welcome to the journey.

Expect that reading is not going to be the only thing you're going to have to be teaching your child.

[Anonymous]

I think supporting your kids in learning to read, and developing a love of reading, is a parent's job. I don't think that means you have to use a formal curriculum before or during K. Reading with your kids and practicing sounding words out will get most kids there eventually. It's important to make reading enjoyable.

[Anonymous]

Yes, our kids learned at home.

[Anonymous]

Yes, and you’ll also want to teach your kids basic math. Especially their multiplication tables which are not covered in school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think supporting your kids in learning to read, and developing a love of reading, is a parent's job. I don't think that means you have to use a formal curriculum before or during K. Reading with your kids and practicing sounding words out will get most kids there eventually. It's important to make reading enjoyable.

Unfortunately, many schools use curricula proven unsound, so yes, many parents do have to teach their children to read.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Yes, and you’ll also want to teach your kids basic math. Especially their multiplication tables which are not covered in school.

All of that is covered in my kid’s school. Sorry your kid goes to a crappy school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes, and you’ll also want to teach your kids basic math. Especially their multiplication tables which are not covered in school.

All of that is covered in my kid’s school. Sorry your kid goes to a crappy school.

Bless your heart.

[Anonymous]

Which school system? APS taught my daughter to read.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Listen to the "Sold a Story" podcast. It's horrifying. You definitely need to take on reading instruction at home

+1. And “horrifying” is dead on, not hyperbole.

OP here. Yes, I listened to that but thought our school district had switched to an evidence based curriculum. Yet I am worried when they send home books/worksheets that focus on memorizing sight words/matching whole words instead of sounding out words they are ready to sound out. It feels counterproductive and frustrating for my child.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Listen to the "Sold a Story" podcast. It's horrifying. You definitely need to take on reading instruction at home

+1. And “horrifying” is dead on, not hyperbole.

OP here. Yes, I listened to that but thought our school district had switched to an evidence based curriculum. Yet I am worried when they send home books/worksheets that focus on memorizing sight words/matching whole words instead of sounding out words they are ready to sound out. It feels counterproductive and frustrating for my child.

What curriculum?

I taught all 3 of mine to read. I also focus on knowledge building in the stuff we read at home for comprehension purposes. In addition to Sold a Story look into the work of Natalie Wexler on reading comprehension and writing skills. There's so much more to actually good language arts than phonics, and schools still aren't there yet (except those using CKLA).

[Anonymous]

Our MCPS 3rd grader got phonics in kindergarten, but they never sent anything home about it; they just covered it at school. We never did any formal reading instruction at home, and our kid learned to read just fine and is a very good (and avid) reader now. I wouldn't assume you need to do more than read to your kid and model reading as a pastime.

[Anonymous]

What school system? we're in APS and for me the answer has been no, the school is handling it. But APS is very phonics based now. So that seems to be working for my child and he doesn't do very well with us trying to do it at home so we're just going at the pace of school. We read to him a lot at home.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Listen to the "Sold a Story" podcast. It's horrifying. You definitely need to take on reading instruction at home

+1. And “horrifying” is dead on, not hyperbole.

OP here. Yes, I listened to that but thought our school district had switched to an evidence based curriculum. Yet I am worried when they send home books/worksheets that focus on memorizing sight words/matching whole words instead of sounding out words they are ready to sound out. It feels counterproductive and frustrating for my child.

What curriculum?

I taught all 3 of mine to read. I also focus on knowledge building in the stuff we read at home for comprehension purposes. In addition to Sold a Story look into the work of Natalie Wexler on reading comprehension and writing skills. There's so much more to actually good language arts than phonics, and schools still aren't there yet (except those using CKLA).

So it is CKLA. I did hear there were delays in getting the materials. And they sent home a bunch of.books from the previous curriculum.

I don't think they aren't teaching any phonics at all. I do think my child is learning the sounds associated with letters at school because I can tell she has learned that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Our MCPS 3rd grader got phonics in kindergarten, but they never sent anything home about it; they just covered it at school. We never did any formal reading instruction at home, and our kid learned to read just fine and is a very good (and avid) reader now. I wouldn't assume you need to do more than read to your kid and model reading as a pastime.

Most kids need systematic instruction to learn to read.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our MCPS 3rd grader got phonics in kindergarten, but they never sent anything home about it; they just covered it at school. We never did any formal reading instruction at home, and our kid learned to read just fine and is a very good (and avid) reader now. I wouldn't assume you need to do more than read to your kid and model reading as a pastime.

Most kids need systematic instruction to learn to read.

I assume my kid did too, she just got it at school, like I said.