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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I went to willow oaks and looked at the resources. They are terrible. There is no choice. It's either we going to use Benchmark or Benchmark. I put in a community feedback form but as many things in FCPS, it seems like they have already made their decision.  I am trying to be cautiously optimistic as Wiley Bevins  helped write them but it is not engaging at all. I think the bigger question is the implementation. Is this going to be THE resource or A resource. Schools have had a lot of autonomy in what resources they use so I will be interested to see how that is messaged. [/quote]

They are boring, that stinks. Do they at least teach reading as described by the poster talking about the reading rope above? Do they do explicit teaching of writing?[/quote]

I have many questions about  the writing instruction....these kids need to learn how to write. It doesn't "just happen" as some schools like to say.
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I totally agree. My second grader was working on a story for reflections and her knowledge of proper English extended to capitalizing the first letter of a sentence and an ending punctuation mark. It's pretty hard to read that. She has been read aloud to since birth and reads plenty herself, and quite well. Just having her read more isn't going to improve her usage of English. Someone needs to tell her what to do. I will continue working with her, but with these hour and a half or two hour language arts blocks it sure would be nice if there were some information on how to structure a paragraph built in. The private school we've been wishing to send the kids to for years has them doing five paragraph essays by the end of second grade.[/quote]

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