The return of spelling in MCPS ES!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am so happy that MCPS's new curriculum includes a strong focus on spelling. My ES kids are now learning rules of spelling and getting weekly spelling tests based on those rules. My older kids, who did Curriculum 2.0 and Benchmark for ES, didn't have spelling as far as I could tell -- and certainly no spelling lists sent home. This is a big improvement.

There has always been spelling in ES, even in C2.0

Maybe at your W school? Our poor Focus school had ZERO spelling instruction in ES. Our MS did hold a spelling bee and we forced our kids to participate in the hopes that it would help a little with spelling.

Nope

[Anonymous]

I started private tutoring for writing last year and am doing spelling independently for a 5th grade student. Unfortunately, I will be working with him probably until he graduates to make up for the terrible instruction he got. They waste so much time in the class with Ed tech coupled with the terrible curriculum prior to ckla. There are families in other states who are suing school districts for using these crappy curriculums and then the students leave school with limited academic skills

[Anonymous]

How sad is it that we have to celebrate the return of spelling instruction in a county that prides itself on having "good schools"?

[Anonymous]

Wish Frederick county would get on this too.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am so happy that MCPS's new curriculum includes a strong focus on spelling. My ES kids are now learning rules of spelling and getting weekly spelling tests based on those rules. My older kids, who did Curriculum 2.0 and Benchmark for ES, didn't have spelling as far as I could tell -- and certainly no spelling lists sent home. This is a big improvement.

There has always been spelling in ES, even in C2.0

Maybe at your W school? Our poor Focus school had ZERO spelling instruction in ES. Our MS did hold a spelling bee and we forced our kids to participate in the hopes that it would help a little with spelling.

My kids had spelling and word study in ES. Not at a W school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I started private tutoring for writing last year and am doing spelling independently for a 5th grade student. Unfortunately, I will be working with him probably until he graduates to make up for the terrible instruction he got. They waste so much time in the class with Ed tech coupled with the terrible curriculum prior to ckla. There are families in other states who are suing school districts for using these crappy curriculums and then the students leave school with limited academic skills

Graduates what, ES? Because Unless a student has special needs it certainly should not take through Hs graduation to cover spelling and primary writing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am so happy that MCPS's new curriculum includes a strong focus on spelling. My ES kids are now learning rules of spelling and getting weekly spelling tests based on those rules. My older kids, who did Curriculum 2.0 and Benchmark for ES, didn't have spelling as far as I could tell -- and certainly no spelling lists sent home. This is a big improvement.

There has always been spelling in ES, even in C2.0

If there was, my kids never received lists — in 2.0
And Benchmark. Markedly different with the new curriculum. -OP

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No clue why this is so difficult.

Elementary schools should have a curriculum that includes spelling along with vocabulary and grammar.

Private schools use workbooks for spelling and vocab.

I teach in public schools and in the last 15 or more years, schools have gotten rid of textbooks and workbooks. We have been told that reliance on them leads to lazy teaching. So we have to spend a ridiculous amount of time and our own money supplementing the curriculum which gives us next to nothing.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am so happy that MCPS's new curriculum includes a strong focus on spelling. My ES kids are now learning rules of spelling and getting weekly spelling tests based on those rules. My older kids, who did Curriculum 2.0 and Benchmark for ES, didn't have spelling as far as I could tell -- and certainly no spelling lists sent home. This is a big improvement.

There has always been spelling in ES, even in C2.0

Maybe at your W school? Our poor Focus school had ZERO spelling instruction in ES. Our MS did hold a spelling bee and we forced our kids to participate in the hopes that it would help a little with spelling.

I don't think W schools were better at teaching reading and spelling than Focus or Title 1 schools were. During C 2.0, our W school taught spelling using Words Their Way. http://searkinstructionalfacilitation.pbworks.com/w/file/fetch/113058586/words_their_way_letter_name_alphabetic_spellers.pdf

From what I read, CKLA Amplify has a better, and more comprehensive spelling component than WTW. The Reading League gave it a good review, see page 20. https://www.thereadingleague.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/The-Reading-League-Curriculum-Navigation-Report-Amplify.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How sad is it that we have to celebrate the return of spelling instruction in a county that prides itself on having "good schools"?

There's no return. There has always been spelling.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am so happy that MCPS's new curriculum includes a strong focus on spelling. My ES kids are now learning rules of spelling and getting weekly spelling tests based on those rules. My older kids, who did Curriculum 2.0 and Benchmark for ES, didn't have spelling as far as I could tell -- and certainly no spelling lists sent home. This is a big improvement.

There has always been spelling in ES, even in C2.0

+1 My oldest went to a Title 1 ES and they focused on spelling. They even had weekly spelling tests.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How sad is it that we have to celebrate the return of spelling instruction in a county that prides itself on having "good schools"?

There's no return. There has always been spelling.

Definitely not consistently. As you can see from responses on this thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How sad is it that we have to celebrate the return of spelling instruction in a county that prides itself on having "good schools"?

There's no return. There has always been spelling.

Definitely not consistently. As you can see from responses on this thread.

Have you spoken with your schools teachers, admin, and District Level administrator. Agree it’s not consistent, but also as noted it’s not nonexistent.