Language arts new curriculumn for K-6th

[Anonymous]

Catholic schools teach grammar starting in 3rd. 6th grade just seems very late. Can't they move it down at least a year? They used to use that William and Mary curriculum called Building Language that taught grammar earlier.

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Anonymous wrote:Is the return to a basal going to have kids move away from the awful digital push in schools? Usually LA is heavy on the computers. This basal series may steer us away from computers, which would be amazing!!!

I hope FCPS can abandon Lexia.

I hope not! Used properly, research shows it has a great effect size.

Lexia has been incredibly helpful for my child who started last year two years behind in reading and has recently caught up to peers.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Is the return to a basal going to have kids move away from the awful digital push in schools? Usually LA is heavy on the computers. This basal series may steer us away from computers, which would be amazing!!!

I hope FCPS can abandon Lexia.

I hope not! Used properly, research shows it has a great effect size.

Lexia has been incredibly helpful for my child who started last year two years behind in reading and has recently caught up to peers.

This just further proves my point. Lexia is really to help poor readers. Advanced readers don’t need Lexia.

[Anonymous]

It sounds like grammar might start in 7th grade?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My 6th grader has had spelling assessments all year as well as grammar.

What kind of grammar lessons does your 6th grader get? Ours doesn’t even know all of the parts of speech yet!

My 6th grader spent all of quarter 1 doing parts of speech. They have alternated between county word study and Vocab of Lit and even with the spelling assessments that come home they are required to identify the part of speech for each word in the sentence. The teacher shared that every K-6 student has a word study curriculum and are supposed to have assessments every 5 lessons. My kid is AAP though at a LL4.

My K student in Montessori is very very far from being a genius, but her school is trying to teach her the parts of speech right now (April).

Surely FCPS could start that a bit before 6th/7th grade…

[Anonymous]

(Corrected my editing mistakes below)

My K student in Montessori is very very far from being a genius, but her school is trying to teach her the parts of speech right now (April). I was taught parts of speech starting in 3rd grade in a lame very far downstate public school.

Surely FCPS could start that a bit before 6th/7th grade…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 6th grader has had spelling assessments all year as well as grammar.

What kind of grammar lessons does your 6th grader get? Ours doesn’t even know all of the parts of speech yet!

My 6th grader spent all of quarter 1 doing parts of speech. They have alternated between county word study and Vocab of Lit and even with the spelling assessments that come home they are required to identify the part of speech for each word in the sentence. The teacher shared that every K-6 student has a word study curriculum and are supposed to have assessments every 5 lessons. My kid is AAP though at a LL4.

My K student in Montessori is very very far from being a genius, but her school is trying to teach her the parts of speech right now (April).

Surely FCPS could start that a bit before 6th/7th grade…

Oh my word. When I taught in FCPS in the aughts, we taught parts of speech in first grade. What is up with FCPS?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 6th grader has had spelling assessments all year as well as grammar.

What kind of grammar lessons does your 6th grader get? Ours doesn’t even know all of the parts of speech yet!

My 6th grader spent all of quarter 1 doing parts of speech. They have alternated between county word study and Vocab of Lit and even with the spelling assessments that come home they are required to identify the part of speech for each word in the sentence. The teacher shared that every K-6 student has a word study curriculum and are supposed to have assessments every 5 lessons. My kid is AAP though at a LL4.

My K student in Montessori is very very far from being a genius, but her school is trying to teach her the parts of speech right now (April).

Surely FCPS could start that a bit before 6th/7th grade…

Oh my word. When I taught in FCPS in the aughts, we taught parts of speech in first grade. What is up with FCPS?

it's awful on language arts. It was pathetic seeing basic parts of speech - noun verb, adjective, adverb on a 6th grade bulletin board and that was several years ago. I thought they'd be embarrassed by their teaching but nope. On full display.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 6th grader has had spelling assessments all year as well as grammar.

What kind of grammar lessons does your 6th grader get? Ours doesn’t even know all of the parts of speech yet!

My 6th grader spent all of quarter 1 doing parts of speech. They have alternated between county word study and Vocab of Lit and even with the spelling assessments that come home they are required to identify the part of speech for each word in the sentence. The teacher shared that every K-6 student has a word study curriculum and are supposed to have assessments every 5 lessons. My kid is AAP though at a LL4.

My K student in Montessori is very very far from being a genius, but her school is trying to teach her the parts of speech right now (April).

Surely FCPS could start that a bit before 6th/7th grade…

Oh my word. When I taught in FCPS in the aughts, we taught parts of speech in first grade. What is up with FCPS?

it's awful on language arts. It was pathetic seeing basic parts of speech - noun verb, adjective, adverb on a 6th grade bulletin board and that was several years ago. I thought they'd be embarrassed by their teaching but nope. On full display.

Yeah, the homeschool grammar curriculum I supplement with starts defining nouns and verbs in first.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 6th grader has had spelling assessments all year as well as grammar.

What kind of grammar lessons does your 6th grader get? Ours doesn’t even know all of the parts of speech yet!

My 6th grader spent all of quarter 1 doing parts of speech. They have alternated between county word study and Vocab of Lit and even with the spelling assessments that come home they are required to identify the part of speech for each word in the sentence. The teacher shared that every K-6 student has a word study curriculum and are supposed to have assessments every 5 lessons. My kid is AAP though at a LL4.

My K student in Montessori is very very far from being a genius, but her school is trying to teach her the parts of speech right now (April).

Surely FCPS could start that a bit before 6th/7th grade…

Oh my word. When I taught in FCPS in the aughts, we taught parts of speech in first grade. What is up with FCPS?

I’ve been teaching 1st and 2nd for years and we still teach parts of speech.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 6th grader has had spelling assessments all year as well as grammar.

What kind of grammar lessons does your 6th grader get? Ours doesn’t even know all of the parts of speech yet!

My 6th grader spent all of quarter 1 doing parts of speech. They have alternated between county word study and Vocab of Lit and even with the spelling assessments that come home they are required to identify the part of speech for each word in the sentence. The teacher shared that every K-6 student has a word study curriculum and are supposed to have assessments every 5 lessons. My kid is AAP though at a LL4.

My K student in Montessori is very very far from being a genius, but her school is trying to teach her the parts of speech right now (April).

Surely FCPS could start that a bit before 6th/7th grade…

Oh my word. When I taught in FCPS in the aughts, we taught parts of speech in first grade. What is up with FCPS?

I’ve been teaching 1st and 2nd for years and we still teach parts of speech.

In 2nd grade two of my 3 kids were given mad libs and sort of introduced to nouns and verbs, but not to the concept that every sentence has one of each. Is that what you mean?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:(Corrected my editing mistakes below)

My K student in Montessori is very very far from being a genius, but her school is trying to teach her the parts of speech right now (April). I was taught parts of speech starting in 3rd grade in a lame very far downstate public school.

Surely FCPS could start that a bit before 6th/7th grade…

They do. Which grade level curricula have you checked? It’s part of the word study lessons in at least third grade.

[Anonymous]

It is being taught in earlier years but needs to be taught yearly cause kids aren’t retaining info.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My 6th grader has had spelling assessments all year as well as grammar.

What kind of grammar lessons does your 6th grader get? Ours doesn’t even know all of the parts of speech yet!

My 6th grader spent all of quarter 1 doing parts of speech. They have alternated between county word study and Vocab of Lit and even with the spelling assessments that come home they are required to identify the part of speech for each word in the sentence. The teacher shared that every K-6 student has a word study curriculum and are supposed to have assessments every 5 lessons. My kid is AAP though at a LL4.

My K student in Montessori is very very far from being a genius, but her school is trying to teach her the parts of speech right now (April).

Surely FCPS could start that a bit before 6th/7th grade…

Oh my word. When I taught in FCPS in the aughts, we taught parts of speech in first grade. What is up with FCPS?

it's awful on language arts. It was pathetic seeing basic parts of speech - noun verb, adjective, adverb on a 6th grade bulletin board and that was several years ago. I thought they'd be embarrassed by their teaching but nope. On full display.

Yeah, the homeschool grammar curriculum I supplement with starts defining nouns and verbs in first. Which one?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is being taught in earlier years but needs to be taught yearly cause kids aren’t retaining info.

+1, Kids learn when a noun is in 1st grade they learned whatever a verb, pronoun, and adjective are in 2nd grade. The other parts of speech are taught in 3rd-6th, but the problem is very few of them actually retain it for future years so we have to go over it every single year.