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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's baffling to me that any competent teacher could ever believe that "good readers" look at the pictures and guess and only consider the letters/sounds as a last resort. Did they never reflect on how they personallye r learned to read? Consider that for centuries people learned to read from books without pictures?[/quote]

Plenty of teachers didn’t believe this BS way of teaching but we are required to teach the curriculum. That’s our job. The problem started (like it almost always does) with the higher ups making decisions based on fads. [b]The current fad is equity. Our LA curriculum is based on equity.[/b] Once our district heard that the curriculum is a knowledge building curriculum designed to promote equity and they bought it. Does it meet the needs of our students? Nope. Will they listen to us? Nope. So we are stuck with it and have to use it. Don’t assume we don’t what which end is up. We know but unless parents complain, nothing will change. [/quote]

You have a problem with science-backed LA programs / teaching phonics? 
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Nope. I have a problem with the people making the decisions. They don’t know anything about how kids learn to read. [/quote]

The current "trend" is science of reading. You can't get behind that? 
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And the curriculum is Wit and Wisdom which doesn’t include any phonics instruction at all. [/quote]

That's not a "trendy" curriculum. Which school district is this?

In Northern VA, they are all moving towards phonics-based programs. 
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It is. Lots of urban districts are now using it because they are drinking the Kool Aid that it will lift up poor kids due to its equity building curriculum. [/quote]

Which school district uses this without fundations or other phonics-based program? 
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Everyone is moving to phonics + a knowledge based LA curriculum.  I think this is a great combo.  It give the kids more practice reading non-fiction and has them write about actual substance rather than writing personal narrative after personal narrative every single year. The phonics curriculum helps with early decoding, but then builds spelling skills and helps the kids access harder vocabulary that shows up in the knowledge based curriculum.  The only thing I'd bulk up a bit is the study of grammar, though I believe this is usually tackled somewhat in the knowledge based curriculum.

The best part is that neither is Lexia, which I think is a huge waste of time.[/quote]

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