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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DD's 5th grade class read, IIRC, 3 separate books in small groups in 5th grade.  In addition, her teacher always had a novel going that she read to the entire class daily as part of the built-in circle time that is common in elementary.

6th grade Reading class was a semester long and they didn't actually read a single thing.  Complete waste of time.  From what I can tell they've also only read one book in Language Arts so far.  Thank goodness she is a voracious and proficient reader, since APS certainly isn't supporting that development.[/quote]

I hope high school AP English is different; but otherwise PP is right that the APS curriculum doesn't include a lot of reading of novels - and even less writing of anything more than 3-5 paragraphs.
TJ middle school used to have a fabulous reading program for 6th graders that was divided up into different types of reading: fiction, non-fiction, genres, etc.  It exposed kids to a variety of types of reading and was intended to develop the various type of reading skills they would need - academic reading v fiction, for example.  Other middle schools did not have this same program and I don't know if TJ still does.  I hope it does.  Still, other than that, don't expect your kid to get to read a lot of full novels via the APS general and even intensified ELA curriculum.

We have two high schoolers.  Our junior read "To Kill a Mockingbird" as a freshman and part of "The Odyssey" and part of other books.  They were about to start "Romeo and Juliet" when the original COVID shutdown came.  No new material was allowed to be taught, so they've never read R&J. Our second child is a freshman taking intensified English.  They have completed R&J and are reading The Odyssey now.  I believe they may have read another novel earlier in the year before R&J.  But it definitely isn't like when I was in high school and we read 6-12 complete novels throughout the year (and wrote full length papers on each one).[/quote]

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