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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is anyone going to post any actual information or research here? It’s impossible to tell whether these posters are just spouting off or there is some actual validity to these claims that it’s so terrible and yet the majority of arlington elementary schools use it. That doesn’t seem to add up. [/quote]

To follow up - can someone explain what you think the schools SHOULD be doing? I feel like there is thread after thread complaining about some of the top school districts in the entire country and I’m honestly trying to figure it out. Recently there was a thread about Fairfax reading being terrible because they don’t use phonics or something. Now Arlington is doing phonics but in a terrible way? What is the ideal way in posters minds?[/quote]

Schools should teach phonics and reading systematically.  Teach letter sounds in a sequence that makes sense, then teach students how to blend the sounds, etc.  Lucy Calkins doesn’t believe in that, her so called whole language approach is idiotic.  For example, if a student sees the word horse in a picture book but doesn’t know the word, what would you do?  Help him “sound it out”, right?  What does Lucy Calkins do?  She’ll say, look at the picture, what do you think it is?  The student then looks at the picture, and replies “ pony”, and bingo, that’s good enough for Lucy Calkins, to her the student is utilizing picture clue to understand the text, doesn’t even matter that pony I’d different than horse, because to her it doesn’t change anything in terms of understanding the story.

I hope this make sense.  Typing on my iPad so please excuse any typo . [/quote]

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