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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You’ve now identified two areas where you don’t think the school is instructing properly - you are worried they don’t have a good method for teaching cursive (I think I got that from your previous post) and you gather that they are teaching decodable words as sight words. That means you have hesitations about the school’s ability to teach your kid! It isn’t just about whether cursive is part of the curriculum or not, right?

There are reasons for teaching some decodable words as sight words. If a word is decodable but the curriculum doesn’t teach the pattern (the vowel team or whatever) until later, but the word is highly used and useful…some programs will teach it as a sight word in the short term, and then revisit it when they get to the pattern. An example would be the word “do” - in K the school may not have taught open vowel sounds, so it isn’t decodable - yet. But it’s a simple, short, useful word to have.[/quote]Sorry I was referring to how his past school has fallen short. I don’t have any reason to suspect poor instruction at the new school I’m just jaded I guess and don’t want any additional obstacles like cursive. I like what PP said about learning how to strategically fail at low-yield activities. I’m going to hope for the best I guess. It can’t be worse than what we’ve seen. [/quote]

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