Benchmark questions for 3rd grader have me questioning my sanity

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP you are extremely pedantic.

I would not say Benchmark is an awesome or perfect curriculum. However, you, as a parent, have an incomplete picture of what is being taught day to day in the classroom. The curriculum does make more sense than you think it does, in that skills and concepts are being taught sequentially and systematically within and across the units.

You are a bit outside your lane (in that you aren't trained in pedagogy, don't have classroom experience teaching 3rd graders, and aren't aware of the scope and sequence of all the lessons). DCUM is full of parents thinking they are experts. Go write an ELA curriculum please, and grace us all with your genius.

A person shouldn't have to be trained in pedagogy in order to understand their 8 year old's homework. That is exactly the OP's point.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP, you ARE an overthinker.

But you are also correct. We're in a different school district, but the confusing, buzzword-filled curricula are pretty much the same. And God forbid these kids would ever be assigned to read a real book. Just endless "passages." I do find it frustrating.

It has taken the joy out of reading.

Kids need to read literature.

I’m old, so I remember literature textbooks. They included abbreviated versions of classic tales including Greek mythology. I loved literature class!

We also read novels in groups based on ability (2 groups, and kids who needed extra help were pulled by the resource teacher).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, you ARE an overthinker.

But you are also correct. We're in a different school district, but the confusing, buzzword-filled curricula are pretty much the same. And God forbid these kids would ever be assigned to read a real book. Just endless "passages." I do find it frustrating.

It has taken the joy out of reading.

Kids need to read literature.

I’m old, so I remember literature textbooks. They included abbreviated versions of classic tales including Greek mythology. I loved literature class!

We also read novels in groups based on ability (2 groups, and kids who needed extra help were pulled by the resource teacher).

Kids don't have the patience for "literature". Give them faster paced stuff, please!