Spelling in FCPS
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Anonymous
Huh? My 3d grader in FCPS has had "word study" since K. It's phonetics and spelling, as well as ensuring they understand the vocabulary. We are also starting cursive in November. You're either stretching the truth or your school is not representative of FCPS overall. |
Anonymous
This is not our experience. |
Anonymous
I think the PP is exactly right. Our school stops teaching spelling, grammar, and writing after the 3rd grade. Maybe it's you who is stretching the truth? |
Anonymous
Yeah. You got me. I love lying to prove a point to some anonymous person a message board. Especially one to intent on being miserable. Our experience in FCPS has been generally positive. Sorry if that doesn't fit your narrative. |
Anonymous
My "narrative" is simply my family's own experience with FCPS. Glad yours has been positive, but you seem to imply anyone with a negative experience must be "stretching the truth". It'd be nice if you could stop trying to dismiss the experiences of others, especially if they don't fit your pep rally view of this school system. |
Anonymous
Looks like you are providing outside supplementation. FCPS has not taught cursive. |
Anonymous
| The problem is that there is no standard curriculum material to follow for language arts. Word study Is not a standard within fops so each school is electing to do it or not. In AAP there is some standard curriculum material but not in general ed |
Anonymous
| Which schools and grades are not teaching word study with a weekly word list? |
Anonymous
All kids at our school receive a "cursive license" at the end of 3d grade and are taught cursive starting in November. This is from the mouth of my 3d grader's teacher at the teacher conference this week. So, no, we are not supplementing. |
Anonymous
I call it like I see it. You were the one saying that FCPS does not teach these things anymore. Across the board. You could not possible know that b/c it's not true. That's stretching the truth. |
Anonymous
And our school taught cursive for about 2 weeks and got through about 10 pages. No cursive license was given out. This is what people mean when they say that things are very different in language arts from one school to another. |
Anonymous
This is not true. Fairfax County has a "Program of Studies," which has standards that are essential or expected, and extensions that are expected to be taught in honors and AAP. There is not, however, a standard curriculum for either general education or AAP. There are standards and benchmarks, but no curriculum. |
Anonymous
I wrote the above quote and what I meant by it is that AAP for each grade has a list of recommended materials for each school to buy to use in the AAP program. General Ed is a free for all in terms of what teachers may use as materials. I was talking about materials (workbooks), not standards. |
Anonymous
This is still not true. I teach AAP and must find/develop ALL the curricula on my own, based on the FCPS POS. Standard workbooks/materials are neither recommended nor provided to me as a teacher. I collaborate with other AAP teachers throughout the county, and the same is true for them, as well. We share ideas with one another, but that is as close as we get to a "list of recommended materials." Perhaps some areas/pyramids have a list of recommended materials, but that is certainly not the case across the county. |
Anonymous
| FCPS has grade level lists of materials used in AAP on their website. |