Literacy enrichment experiences 2025-26

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a PP way earlier in this thread following up after conferences this week. The ELA teacher couldn’t explain why the school chose the heterogeneous model or why family input was not included as instructed in the MCPS memo. However, she shows me on her computer how she accessed the CKLA enrichment “overlays” for my kid’s class. It was mostly replacement assignments that she gives the whole class even though only a few qualify for enrichment . She said something like “it’s good for all kids”. She didn’t understand that if it’s given to all, it’s not enrichment!

The HR teacher, who just does SS and Science, was the only teacher to understand my frustration about the CES experience being vastly different than the fake enrichment at the home school for kids that didn’t win the lottery.

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Oh interesting. Can you say more about what some of the replacement assignments are? Are they good ones?

My daughter's in the cohorted version which is just regular grade-level CKLA but faster, and finds it really dull and boring so far... I'd honestly rather her be in a mixed -level cass if it would mean she would get to do a decent number of interesting and above-level assignments, rather than just squeezing in an extra unit of grade-level CKLA alongside advanced classmates.

The replacements activities were nothing exciting. I saw “task cards” that looked like exit tickets. Small charts kids fill in after the reading.

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Anyone have a 4th grader doing the activity where they read the autobiography of a writer and then a book by them?

The concept sounds great but my kid has been given a worksheet to fill out while reading the autobiography about how the author's life shaped their writing, but it appears to be a generic worksheet with no attention paid to whether the actual autobiography the kid has been assigned actually allows them to answer the questions (my kid was in frustrated tears over hers-- I read the book myself and she is correct that there is virtually nothing in the book to answer like 6 of the 8ish questions.). Just seems like a really poorly designed activity.