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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our neighbor says that at their top private, Lower School used Calkins’ Writers Workshop in Lower School.  LS teachers were told not to correct grammar or spelling, per the Writers Workshop teacher’s guides, so little kids could be creative and love to write.

Now that their kids are in Middle School (at the same private), the teachers are scrambling to undo all the bad habits in grammar & spelling taught by using Calkins WW in the previous grades.

It seems silly to teach bad habits in LS and make the MS faculty repair avoidable damage.  Checking websites, it seems many “top” privates are doing this sequence, not just our neighbor’s school.

It would sure be nice if people with connections to private school board members would inform those boards about all the Calkins-created issues - with reading, writing, spelling, and grammar.  [/quote]

Yeah, a lot of people don’t understand that really understanding grammar unlocks a lot of creative options in writing. It’s not just “rote” busy work we were made to do for good reason. I found it really helpful to learn basic things like antecedent, appositive, subordinating clause, etc. Understanding those gives you more options for writing strong sentences, which are the building blocks of writing composition. [/quote]

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