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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Didn't Arlington just buy this curriculum?[/quote]

So Lucy Calkins did add a phonics component in 2017. I think for k-2nd. But I don’t know that every school uses it. I taught fourth this year and last. Both schools uses Lucy and I can tell my fourth graders never learned phonics. I’ve spoken up about it and admin just gets mad and I’m only a second year teacher so they def don’t listen... but I was a sub and aide for two years and what I saw the teachers in those districts use was Orton-Gillingham, a spelling curriculum, Worldy Wise, Words their Way, some dictation, explicit teaching of parts of speech and grammar... I saw first, second, and third graders writing better than most of the fourth graders I’ve taught when I was a sub and aide, and when I student taught in a third grade classroom. There’s stuff out there that works and I don’t know why they’d ever bother buying the new Lucy that had phonics because I’ve heard it’s not that great and isn’t there enough out there proving Lucy is an idiot and we shouldn’t be told we HAVE to use her?! It’s wild. I hate her.[/quote]

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