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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We're in DCPS and I don't understand how this is STILL happening in MCPS. We've been pleasantly surprised to see how well DCPS has course corrected regarding reading and our own experience has been phenomenal -- all evidence-based, focus on phonics, no Lucy Caulkins nonsense at all.

We're contemplating a move to MoCo for several reasons, including schools (in a bad HS triangle in DC) and this is giving me pause.[/quote]

My second grader in MCPS has consistently been taught phonics in school since the beginning, definitely more than my current fourth grader received (I remember sight word books and “look at the pictures for clues” during the zoom school days). I don’t know where the current third graders fall. Was there a change to the MCPS curriculum with more phonics starting with the kids who are now second graders?[/quote]

This is only the 2nd year of phonics/science of reading (except I think there were some pilot schools the year before, maybe yours was one?)  My second grader was taught all sorts of crappy guessing strategies in kindergarten, but last year and this year have been much better and she's finally starting to drop some of the bad habits she picked up in kindergarten.  [/quote]

Also have a second grader and we've had a similar experience.  It still angers me that they were being taught that way.[/quote]

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