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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, are you at a school that is piloting the "new and improved" Benchmark curriculum, or at one that is supposed to use Really Great Reading? Either way, you just inspired me to buy this book to help my kid learn to read this year in PK so we don't have to rely on MCPS. https://www.amazon.com/Teach-Your-Child-Read-Lessons/dp/0671631985[/quote]

DP.  How do we figure which of these is true of our elementary?[/quote]

The schools piloting the new Benchmark Advanced curriculum this year are:

Ritchie Park (K-5)
    Burnt Mills (K-5 Spanish Immersion Program only)
    Candlewood (K-5)
    JoAnn Leleck at Broad Acres (K-5)
    Captain James E. Daly Jr. (K-5)
    Rock Creek Forest (3-5) and (Spanish Immersion Program) (K-5)
    Washington Grove (K-5)
    Gaithersburg #8 (K-5)
    Brown Station (K-2)
    Woodfield ES (3-5)
    Rosemary Hills (K- 2)
    Oak View (3-5)

[url]https://www.montgomeryschoolsmd.org/curriculum/office/[/url]
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So the other schools get nothing? Great. What phonics program should the rest of us use at home?[/quote]

According to the link above, elementary schools are all shifting to Structured Literacy, which includes phonics: "Structured literacy centers on the systematic and cumulative teaching of the five components of reading—phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary and comprehension as well as writing. This shift is supported by research on improving how MCPS teaches reading and writing."[/quote]

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