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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My first grader can read quite well at this stage (end of the year), but his writing is horrendous.  Spelling is ridiculous, and they apparently don't really give spelling tests anymore.  [/quote]
Maybe not at your school, but at our non-W cluster ES, they do.  [b]DC had spelling tests in 1st, and a form of a spelling test in 2nd[/b] (like "boot" is cvvc category).

I think MCPS does have pretty high writing standards for 1st.  We moved from out of state when my other DC was in 2nd, and this DC struggled with the writing because DC was not used to such rigorous writing.  DC's reading level was pegged at 2 grades above in previous school, but when we moved here, because DC had trouble with the written part of the reading assessment, DC's reading level was lowered. Luckily, it only took DC a couple of months to go back to the reading level DC should've been at.  But, that year was very painful for me to get DC to be better about writing, and I don't mean penmanship.[/quote]

Do you have a current 1st grader?  My older child had spelling tests when she was in first, but my current first grader does not.  It was my understanding that this was removed from the MCPS curriculum as of either this year or last year.  They still have spelling words, though -- just no quizzes.[/quote]
This was last year.  Last year, I read on this forum of some parents complaining about no spelling tests in mcps, too.[/quote]

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