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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lucy Calkins has ruined so many youngsters reading classes for years!   
https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/teachers-college-to-dissolve-lucy-calkins-reading-and-writing-project/2023/09

Finally, the tide is turning.  Wake up FCPS![/quote]

I haven't had a child go through FCPS yet. I'm curious to know to what extent teachers in FCPS continue to use Calkin's curriculum or ideas from it? Or is everyone on board with phonics now?

I know teachers/curricula (sometimes?) emphasize teaching sight words, which is different and less controversial from the whole-word "method". 
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This is an old thread that should be in the other forum.  FCPS never used Lucy Calkins for reading but did/does use it for writing.  In the past year or two, FCPS has changed from their previous reading program (that was a hodgepodge of balanced literacy including three cuing but not Lucy Calkins) to a new phonics based reading curriculum (still a hodgepodge but by all accounts actually phonics based).  With the closure of Lucy Calkins, writing will probably change but not for this school year, I don't imagine.[/quote]

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