When will DC area privates dump Lucy Calkins curricula ?

[Anonymous]

If you’re relying on your school to teach your kid to read, you’re failing as a parent. None of this should matter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you’re relying on your school to teach your kid to read, you’re failing as a parent. None of this should matter.

Such a strange hot take. Makes me wonder if I should ask folks what they think the purpose of school is before asking them opinions about school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you’re relying on your school to teach your kid to read, you’re failing as a parent. None of this should matter.

Such a strange hot take. Makes me wonder if I should ask folks what they think the purpose of school is before asking them opinions about school.

Definitely should. I think you’d find that most parents have taught their kid to read before entering K. Most kids in our school are reading at 2nd/3rd grade level when they enter school. Maybe it matters more elsewhere, but the difference between using context clues vs. phonics vs. whatever else is the choice de jeur for best reading curriculum doesn’t really matter to many cohorts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you’re relying on your school to teach your kid to read, you’re failing as a parent. None of this should matter.

Such a strange hot take. Makes me wonder if I should ask folks what they think the purpose of school is before asking them opinions about school.

Definitely should. I think you’d find that most parents have taught their kid to read before entering K. Most kids in our school are reading at 2nd/3rd grade level when they enter school. Maybe it matters more elsewhere, but the difference between using context clues vs. phonics vs. whatever else is the choice de jeur for best reading curriculum doesn’t really matter to many cohorts.

Oh enough with this Lake Wobegon fantasy. There are a substantial number of children who will struggle with reading even if they have the kind of parents who do everything right. School exists to teach kids reading and math. That's it. Everything else is fluff. The fact that so many schools, private and public, fail at this should be very concerning to all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you’re relying on your school to teach your kid to read, you’re failing as a parent. None of this should matter.

Such a strange hot take. Makes me wonder if I should ask folks what they think the purpose of school is before asking them opinions about school.

Definitely should. I think you’d find that most parents have taught their kid to read before entering K. Most kids in our school are reading at 2nd/3rd grade level when they enter school. Maybe it matters more elsewhere, but the difference between using context clues vs. phonics vs. whatever else is the choice de jeur for best reading curriculum doesn’t really matter to many cohorts.

Untrue

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you’re relying on your school to teach your kid to read, you’re failing as a parent. None of this should matter.

Such a strange hot take. Makes me wonder if I should ask folks what they think the purpose of school is before asking them opinions about school.

Definitely should. I think you’d find that most parents have taught their kid to read before entering K. Most kids in our school are reading at 2nd/3rd grade level when they enter school. Maybe it matters more elsewhere, but the difference between using context clues vs. phonics vs. whatever else is the choice de jeur for best reading curriculum doesn’t really matter to many cohorts.

Oh enough with this Lake Wobegon fantasy. There are a substantial number of children who will struggle with reading even if they have the kind of parents who do everything right. School exists to teach kids reading and math. That's it. Everything else is fluff. The fact that so many schools, private and public, fail at this should be very concerning to all.

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[Anonymous]

I’m happy to report that, in Norwood 1st grade, I’ve seen lots of indications of O-G and no Lucy Calkins. DC brought back a decodable reader last week from the Institute of Multisensory Education (an O/G curriculum provider) that focuses on long vowels.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m happy to report that, in Norwood 1st grade, I’ve seen lots of indications of O-G and no Lucy Calkins. DC brought back a decodable reader last week from the Institute of Multisensory Education (an O/G curriculum provider) that focuses on long vowels.

That would fire up my love of reading!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m happy to report that, in Norwood 1st grade, I’ve seen lots of indications of O-G and no Lucy Calkins. DC brought back a decodable reader last week from the Institute of Multisensory Education (an O/G curriculum provider) that focuses on long vowels.

That would fire up my love of reading!

I suspect you’re being sarcastic. DC loved reading it to us.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m happy to report that, in Norwood 1st grade, I’ve seen lots of indications of O-G and no Lucy Calkins. DC brought back a decodable reader last week from the Institute of Multisensory Education (an O/G curriculum provider) that focuses on long vowels.

Interesting because we left Norwood due to lack of OG. Unfortunately, public isn’t much better unless you can get IEP with an evidence based curriculum.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m happy to report that, in Norwood 1st grade, I’ve seen lots of indications of O-G and no Lucy Calkins. DC brought back a decodable reader last week from the Institute of Multisensory Education (an O/G curriculum provider) that focuses on long vowels.

Interesting because we left Norwood due to lack of OG. Unfortunately, public isn’t much better unless you can get IEP with an evidence based curriculum.

I’m sorry to hear that. They have definitely switched to it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m happy to report that, in Norwood 1st grade, I’ve seen lots of indications of O-G and no Lucy Calkins. DC brought back a decodable reader last week from the Institute of Multisensory Education (an O/G curriculum provider) that focuses on long vowels.

That would fire up my love of reading!

You know what fires up a love of reading? Actually being able to read.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m happy to report that, in Norwood 1st grade, I’ve seen lots of indications of O-G and no Lucy Calkins. DC brought back a decodable reader last week from the Institute of Multisensory Education (an O/G curriculum provider) that focuses on long vowels.

That would fire up my love of reading!

You know what fires up a love of reading? Actually being able to read.

Exactly. And these types of books, that are derived from a structured literacy curriculum, are how to teach kids to read.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you’re relying on your school to teach your kid to read, you’re failing as a parent. None of this should matter.

Such a strange hot take. Makes me wonder if I should ask folks what they think the purpose of school is before asking them opinions about school.

Definitely should. I think you’d find that most parents have taught their kid to read before entering K. Most kids in our school are reading at 2nd/3rd grade level when they enter school. Maybe it matters more elsewhere, but the difference between using context clues vs. phonics vs. whatever else is the choice de jeur for best reading curriculum doesn’t really matter to many cohorts.

Name the school. While I am certain that these kids aren't rare, no way are most (or even the majority) reading and comprehending on that level. I know because my child was one of them, and finding a peer group on the same level was tricky.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you’re relying on your school to teach your kid to read, you’re failing as a parent. None of this should matter.

Such a strange hot take. Makes me wonder if I should ask folks what they think the purpose of school is before asking them opinions about school.

Definitely should. I think you’d find that most parents have taught their kid to read before entering K. Most kids in our school are reading at 2nd/3rd grade level when they enter school. Maybe it matters more elsewhere, but the difference between using context clues vs. phonics vs. whatever else is the choice de jeur for best reading curriculum doesn’t really matter to many cohorts.

Name the school. While I am certain that these kids aren't rare, no way are most (or even the majority) reading and comprehending on that level. I know because my child was one of them, and finding a peer group on the same level was tricky.

And whether your child reads early has little to do with intelligence.