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[quote=Anonymous]I think there are plenty of kids with solid reading skills in 6th grade reading.  I know for my child it was a great experience, even though he could have taken a language if I'd wanted him to.  At our middle school, the only options for sixth grade language are the full speed high school course.  For my son, that wasn't the right choice.  He didn't need the pressure, and I wanted him to have time to relax after school.  In addition, he ended up having the same teacher for reading, English, and home room.  For a kid transitioning from a small school with 1 fifth grade class (out of state) to an MCPS middle school with 300 sixth graders, having a teacher who knew him well and could watch out for him worked out really well.

For my kid, I noticed that the Reading and English classes were a lot alike.  They seemed to alternate who was teaching a long text and who was teaching shorter units of text.  So one did myths while the other did a biography, and then they'd switch.  I liked this because it meant he wasn't reading and confusing 2 novels simultaneously, and got a good balance of short and long, and fiction and non fiction.  The Reading class had more explicit writing assignments.   They worked hard on paragraph structure and did lots of short writing assignments, whereas the English class had fewer, longer papers.  My child made enormous progress in writing that year.

Most elementary schools have more than 45 minutes of Literacy a day.  I think for many kids, keeping this model for one more year makes sense.[/quote]

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