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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a high schooler who basically taught themself to read thanks to balanced literacy and a dyslexic elementary kiddo.

As a parent, there are things I like but a lot of empty work comes home. It’s unclear whether it’s because the work has been adapted bc of my child’s disability or if the work is actually not happening in class. However I do like the quality of the curriculum, but I don’t really like the opacity as to what is being done and to what degree of fidelity, but I feel like it’s a teacher issue.

[b]It’s leaps and bounds above what was happening before, which was basically bc nonsense.[/b][/quote]

I agree with the bolded text. The previous  ELA "curriculum" was awful.

Every year, I had to correct the incorrect information that was being taught during ELA. I never expected an elementary teacher to be a content specialist, but I still cannot believe that elementary teachers, even in fourth through sixth grades, were teaching that sentences can never begin with the word [i]because[/i], paragraphs must have five sentences, character vs. society is a character versus a group, and readers should read test questions before a passage.  :roll:

Book clubs were also a farce, writing instruction was absolutely terrible, and there was no rigor for students with advanced literacy skills.

I have been pleased with the majority of what I've seen with Benchmark. [/quote]

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