S/o Lucy Calkins APS Reading

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The “consumer reports” of quality curriculum just rated it as failing:
https://www.edreports.org/reports/overview/units-of-study-2018

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Anonymous wrote:My child had the writing workshop in a local private school. Total waste of time and basically kids look at each others work and go oh that looks good. So basically getting little kids who don't know how to write to tell other little kids how to write...

LC was used widely and many teachers have never been taught how to teach phonics or phonemic awareness. Private school teachers included, and not just locally. My sister in another state had her kids in private and encountered this same issue. Lucky for her, her FIL was a teacher way back when and knew how to teach her kids to read and write, outside of school. So infuriating.

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Anonymous wrote:My first grader has a block for phonemic awareness every day. We're in a neighborhood school. APS is definitely teaching phonics.

Do you know if they’re calling it “balanced literacy?”

I'm not sure. I think they mentioned Haggerty at back to school night and one other curriculum for reading that wasn't LC, but I can't remember the name. They're still using LC for writing.

My kid is a good reader (started reading in PreK, prior to APS), and had tons of phonics instruction in preschool, though.

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Anonymous wrote:LC has become the new boogie man. Much of this thread is silly hysterics.

I don’t know. My 6th grader can barely read. He knows the first letter but can’t read a full word that he doesn’t already know. My 1st grader was taught phonics and reads on a 4th grade level.

But this could also just me your kids. I mean my 4th grader is reading on a 12th grade level. He wasn't taught phonics. He is actually a true sight reader. My first grader is being taught phonics and reads on a 1st grade level. The best method is going to change depending on the child. The problem is ignoring one method over another and not working to teach kids using the method they need .

This is actually not the case. Reading in is always learned phonetically. Some kids learn to read well not because of whole language instruction but in spite of it. Whole language instruction has zero basis in how people actually learn to read. It is based on the premise that reading comes naturally to humans like speaking. Which, as you probably know, is wrong.

And for what it’s worth my kids both learned to read in APS schools and are extremely advanced readers so I am not freaking out. All this information is pretty easy to find on google scholar and in books on reading.

Here is a graphic with PP's point:
https://mobile.twitter.com/isaology/status/1026326923461513217

Here are the results:
"35% of 4th-graders and 34% of 8th-graders performed at or above NAEP Proficient in reading." https://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/reading/