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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is wrong with writing workshops, if students can already read and know phonics?

Are old school readers and textbooks like HMH better for 3rd-5th literacy?[/quote]

Children almost always need explicit instruction in spelling, grammar, how to structure a paragraph, and so on.

The Lucy Calkins' "Writers Workshop" curriculum forbid explicit instruction in all of those things so that 1st graders could "think big thoughts."

If the old school textbooks provide explicit instruction in those topics, they would be an improvement over WW.  Actually, almost anything would be an improvement over WW.

We lost literacy for almost an entire generation because of Lucy Calkins and her desire to get rich peddling a curriculum that did not work and very expensive "training" for teachers. Literally millions of children across the US are poor readers and poor writers because of those curricula.  Finally, Columbia U ousted her from their Teachers College a year or two ago out of sheer embarrassment. [/quote]

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