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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]My 6th grader is a good reader and writer[/b]. I guess I don’t get the shock over writing “books” in elementary school. I did when I was a kid, and my kids have done the same so it seems normal. They’re not historical novels- they’re appropriate to the age level in content and length. The class has a “publishing party” (in non Covid times), and families are invited to come in and admire the work, and fill out comment cards for the students. [/quote]

So is mine, which is why I didn’t get why it was problematic. Then my younger child started K, and I understood. For kids who need explicit instruction in reading and writing, this is a disaster. It took me 3 years to help my second child unlearn the “guess the word based on the first letter or look at the picture” to figure it out. Wouldn’t progress to books without pictures FOR THIS REASON because these are the learned habits of a struggling reader. Still can’t spell or compose a correct sentence, but is being forced to write books and feels stupid every day, because child is aware that the spelling and everything else isn’t correct. Other kids, ones like my oldest, laugh at these mistakes in “workshop.” It’s super sh**** and why this child didn’t want to return to school this year.[/quote]

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