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[quote=Anonymous]Sorry you are going through this OP. You really need to find out what writing program they are using. If it is Lucy Calkins/teachers college/writing workshop method that means almost ALL the students don’t write well and don’t spell well. So I’m comparison your child’s work doesn’t look so bad because they care more about the ideas than the mechanics.

My oldest son had a traditional first grade teacher who had spelling tests, and wrote one paragraph assignments twice a week following a model. The teacher corrected them all for spelling, punctuation and reversals. The students then erased to correct so the finished product was perfect.

In contrast my younger son had a teachers who used Lucy Calkins. It was a disaster for a student who has orthographic dyslexia. My son had reversals, couldn’t spell common words like -they, because, when. His ability to visually imprint the correct way of writing these words from just reading is awful. He doesn’t see written mistakes. So now add to that teachers who NEVER correct spelling mistakes. Because he could spell phonetically and had supposedly good ideas he got high marks in writing. I kept saying how is this possible? I can’t read what he wrote and neither can he because if so many reversals, spelling and punctuation mistakes. Finally k had him tested in third grade. The school gave him a 504 plan but they were never going to actually teach him to spell or correct his reversals. I bought a British spelling program for dyslexic students called Apples and Pears. I had to do 100 lessons with him in those books (I started with level A) so that he could learn to spell common words correctly. By the 60th lesson there was a vast improvement. I sat there with an eraser and any reversals or misspellings I erased.

The school offered to test him for an IEP but I asked how they would help his spelling and reversals and they said they would just have him use technology. I envisioned him being an adult and not even being able to write a simple written note without errors. [/quote]

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