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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't know if it's benchmark or just my K kids teacher, but my kindergartner has absolutely blown me away with her reading. The ways she sounds out words, last night she sounded out marshmallow and then asked me it the ar was an r controlled vowel. She then went on about all kinds of vowel related rules and idiosyncrasies. She will read words like take and start sounding it out as "tack" and then say oh there's an e that makes the a say it's name so it's take, if it didn't have that e it would be tack.

She still has more practice to do to be more fluent, but I'm blown away by the deeply engrained phonological rules that she is learning. All while seemingly maintaining comprehension too. [/quote]

I’m a retired teacher, now substitute. The sentence writing and spelling I see kindergartners doing is noticeably better than it was just a year or two ago. It’s greatly improved. I’ve been impressed by the amount of annotating 3rd and 4th graders are willing and able to do when given a passage. I do think creative writing and taking their own work through the writing process has taken a hit.[/quote]

I would like FCPS to stick with this to see how the current cohort of Kindergarteners are doing when they are in 6th. I think we'll see that their level of literacy is vastly improved compared to my current 6th grader, who wouldn't be able to write an essay if we hadn't hired a tutor last year since the FCPS instruction was so bad and we really wanted her to learn how to write. Benchmark has been good, she's actually writing essays - I particularly like the "point of view" one they did a few months ago.[/quote]

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