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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The important piece is that the youngest children (K-2) are also having phonics-based instruction. I heard Lucy Calkins adapted her curriculum to include phonics - is that accurate?[/quote]
The issue is that phonics isn't the only thing wrong with the curriculum. It is all based on theory that kids will teach themselves because everyone is intrinsically a reader, which is total nonsense.  You can't do a short phonics lesson, hand a kid a book, and expect them to teach themselves to read.   It's awful, even with a phonics add on.[/quote]

Different kids need different things. But no one can get anything different so everyone must get the same thing so no one will get what they need.[/quote]
They've done studies.  Something like 5-10% of kids can learn to read using LC.  I'm sure a few more can make progress with some additional phonics.  But the curriculum still assumes kids teach themselves, and that is a recipe for failure for most kids.[/quote]

5%???

What about kids who are already readers? Will writing workshop work for strong readers?[/quote]
There are a few kids who are innate writers, so it's fine for them but those are the kids who could write well using any curriculum.  For everyone else, the writer's workshop curriculum doesn't teach how to write, but expects kids to figure out how to write on their own.   Very few can do this so kids who use the LC writing curriculum end up terrible writers.  Our middle school has even adapted its whole language arts curriculum to remediate for the gaps caused by this curriculum.  It's that bad.[/quote]

This. Been there and our kids suffered severely from WW. [/quote]

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