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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is any public school actually using a curriculum with student workbooks? Ours does phonics, secret stories, heggarty, but from what I can there is no set textbook or workbook. They do literacy exercises on the tablet or Chromebook, and whatever writing or phonics work I see on paper is clearly just printed off from a TPT type of website. Same with math! Aren’t kids supposed to be working math on paper in a student workbooks? Our school send home a photocopied sheet of homework once a week and there’s no textbook to go over material or explain anything if DD struggles (which she hasn’t so far, but should there be something available at home for me to help her if necessary?). [/quote]

Do the Benchmark packets count as workbooks? I think they do, I've been really impressed by them and all the worksheets that come home with my 3rd grader. A lot of parents think it's too hard for their kids, but I think it's necessary. Very impressed, and I hope they stick with it and parents stop complaining - it's only hard because their children weren't taught properly until now. [/quote]

Benchmark is pretty awful. I’m glad schools are moving toward structured literacy, and there are some good programs out there, but Benchmark is not it.

-O-G Tutor[/quote]

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