If You Want to Get Away From Lucy Caulkins/Balanced Literacy For Reading

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am an ES teacher. Honestly, I know very little about Lucy Caulkins.

Perhaps you do not know it by name, but if you know a colleague who uses the phrase “use your picture power” with the young kids learning to read (K-1)—THAT is the horrible Lucy Caulkins.

I HATE that phrase and my child’s teacher said it over and over and over and over and over. How about not using your picture power and instead, have the kids focus on the sight words, blends, digraphs, etc…? 🤯🤯🤯🤯

Another parent privileged enough to sign up with an O-G tutor once I realized FCPS’s (??) the teacher’s (??) method was crap.

DW and I teach elementary grades. Neither of us have ever heard “Use your picture power” or know what “UOS” is.

I would say, “Use picture clues”.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am an ES teacher. Honestly, I know very little about Lucy Caulkins.

Perhaps you do not know it by name, but if you know a colleague who uses the phrase “use your picture power” with the young kids learning to read (K-1)—THAT is the horrible Lucy Caulkins.

I HATE that phrase and my child’s teacher said it over and over and over and over and over. How about not using your picture power and instead, have the kids focus on the sight words, blends, digraphs, etc…? 🤯🤯🤯🤯

Another parent privileged enough to sign up with an O-G tutor once I realized FCPS’s (??) the teacher’s (??) method was crap.

DW and I teach elementary grades. Neither of us have ever heard “Use your picture power” or know what “UOS” is.

I would say, “Use picture clues”.

This is the same thing, and how embarrassing for you that you don’t seem to know this is terrible and outdated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:the parents of dyslexic children have been screaming about this for years and have been ignored. Glad to see the NAACP is taking up the issue. FCPS should be sued over their lack of a reading program that actually works.

+1 One of my sons naturally picked up reading. The other one didn’t , and it was only through him and me reading phonetic hop on pop type books with him where he learned to actually read. FCPS was useless. I was thrilled to do it, but what about all the parents who don’t pick it up, or who work all day or have three other kids at home?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:the parents of dyslexic children have been screaming about this for years and have been ignored. Glad to see the NAACP is taking up the issue. FCPS should be sued over their lack of a reading program that actually works.

Amazing that they’re only taking this seriously now that the NAACP has spoken out. “Equity,” and all that. Meanwhile, my (white) kids had a terrible time with reading in FCPS.

Just remember: anyone who will work with you on a cause is your friend for that cause. If the NAACP gets all kids a good literacy curriculum, your white kid will learn to read too. Equity.

I 100% support the NAACP taking this up as an issue. I am on the "whatever it takes," bus and have spent $30K getting my child reading tutoring and help.

Wow. That sounds like a child who had needs way beyond the typical slow to learn reader.

[Anonymous]

DP. My DC told me in 1st grade that "Good readers look at the pictures."

Uh what? Good readers look at the letters/words.

[Anonymous]

Good readers do a combination of both.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:the parents of dyslexic children have been screaming about this for years and have been ignored. Glad to see the NAACP is taking up the issue. FCPS should be sued over their lack of a reading program that actually works.

Amazing that they’re only taking this seriously now that the NAACP has spoken out. “Equity,” and all that. Meanwhile, my (white) kids had a terrible time with reading in FCPS.

Just remember: anyone who will work with you on a cause is your friend for that cause. If the NAACP gets all kids a good literacy curriculum, your white kid will learn to read too. Equity.

I 100% support the NAACP taking this up as an issue. I am on the "whatever it takes," bus and have spent $30K getting my child reading tutoring and help.

Wow. That sounds like a child who had needs way beyond the typical slow to learn reader.

yes- she is very dyslexic but a reading program based on phonics instead of guessing would have done wonders.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DP. My DC told me in 1st grade that "Good readers look at the pictures."

Uh what? Good readers look at the letters/words.

Good readers do a combination of both.

Uh, no. And anyone who studies the (well-established) science of reading would understand that looking at pictures is not reading, and it's a huge disservice to children to suggest that it helps.

[Anonymous]

We didn't even realize it existed until we'd been telling our otherwise-ahead daughter for months to stop guessing words she didn't immediately know and sound them out instead. So BONUS - she wasted a bunch of time not learning real reading skills, and ALSO got to feel guilty about it. What a great invention. Took us probably a year post-K to undo the damage.

[Anonymous]

and "slow to read" or "it will just click soon," are what teachers say when they have no training in the actual science of reading. Neither of these statements are true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am an ES teacher. Honestly, I know very little about Lucy Caulkins.

Perhaps you do not know it by name, but if you know a colleague who uses the phrase “use your picture power” with the young kids learning to read (K-1)—THAT is the horrible Lucy Caulkins.

I HATE that phrase and my child’s teacher said it over and over and over and over and over. How about not using your picture power and instead, have the kids focus on the sight words, blends, digraphs, etc…? 🤯🤯🤯🤯

Another parent privileged enough to sign up with an O-G tutor once I realized FCPS’s (??) the teacher’s (??) method was crap.

DW and I teach elementary grades. Neither of us have ever heard “Use your picture power” or know what “UOS” is.

I would say, “Use picture clues”.

Omg. Just OMG.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DP. My DC told me in 1st grade that "Good readers look at the pictures."

Uh what? Good readers look at the letters/words.

Good readers do a combination of both.

Uh, no. And anyone who studies the (well-established) science of reading would understand that looking at pictures is not reading, and it's a huge disservice to children to suggest that it helps.

Perhaps what PP is saying is that you need to understand both the words and how the pictures relate to the words?

I hope so anyway.

[Anonymous]

"Three-cuing" is another phrase to watch out for - anything geared towards getting the kids to guess what an unfamiliar word might be.

It just grinds me - it's so intuitively, obviously stupid to teach kids to guess before they even have the basic knowledge for context.

When in learning or life is guessing ever the right strategy? Argh.

[Anonymous]

To the posters talking about NAACP involvement: perhaps one lesson is that if society focuses more on advancing equity (and real advancement of equity, not paternalistic fake half measures), we will all be better off.

[Anonymous]

You know what one really, really useful reading skill is?

Looking words up in the dictionary.