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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As the parent of a native English speaking but language disordered kid, OP, I can say that there is a lot about the failure to educate EL kids that also applies to non-EL kids.

I was extremely uncomfortable when I volunteered as a reading aide during the pandemic in MCPS and it became clear to me that the 1st grader - whose home/native language was Spanish - I was assigned to was being given no effective reading instruction, but she was tasked to do a lot of comprehension and writing work that was completely above her skill level. She could not identify the sound/symbol association for any letters.  As a parent of a dyslexic child, I cannot understand why children - whether ESL or not - have no access to effective phonologically-based decoding instruction.  Kids will never be able to attend to meaning if they do not reach a place of fluent automatic decoding on a subconscious level, so that their cognitive effort can focus on meaning. This has to be achieved in K and 1st or within the first year or two of schooling for non/native speakers otherwise those kids are getting left behind.

And, explicit instruction for vocabulary acquisition, word structure, sentence structure, spelling and grammar are non-existent for all MCPS students, whether EL or not.  There are many non-EL, non-disability diagnosed students who will learn without explicit instruction or get taught by parents or tutors, but many who won't/don't and whose outcomes and opportunities become more limited. [/quote]

THANK YOU! This post is spot-on.[/quote]

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