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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This isnt news. Maybe i am late to the party but just wanted to share anyway.
And has now incorporated phonics in its revised curriculum. But its too late for the students who struggled because of her. It’s appalling that our kid’s education is just a money making business and mcps continues to pick sub par curriculums over and over again.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/22/us/reading-teaching-curriculum-phonics.html[/quote]

Focusing on phonics made me struggle. I think it may be helpful to some but not everyone. [/quote]

Did you do the Lucy Caulkins? It was pointing at a picture of a cat and saying "cat" and hoping by osmosis the kid would learn to read the word.

Phonics isn't the only thing taught, it's also still figuring out the words. Whereas when Lucy Caulkins was taught, no phonics at all was taught.[/quote]
Pre-pandemic I recall being at a happy hour for the moms of the kids in my daughter's girl scout troop.  Eight of the ten moms were desperate to find a reading tutor because they'd just been informed that their end-of-first-grade daughters were woefully behind in reading.  At the time I thought something had to be wrong--there was no way so many smart kids from engaged parents could be that far behind.  The next year the Lucy Caulkin's criticism hit the news and it all made sense.  One of those kids did turn out to be dyslexic.  The rest just hadn't been taught to read and they eventually caught up with the help of very expensive outside reading tutors.[/quote]

That is interesting. If you listen to the sold a story podcast, it is true that rich affluent public school kids also struggle in reading but because parents get tutors for the children they eventually catch up and learn to read. Those tutors use phonics to teach reading. Students at poorer schools have no resources and there by can’t catch up. You can see this playing out in the reading assessments nation wide and maryland in particular. Its in part due to the shutdown but also because of the terrible reading curriculum.[/quote]

I completely agree with this. I've started realizing that it's just not the schools job to teach reading, writing or math, particularly in elementary school. Once I realized that and started teaching dd myself after school every day, she sailed through easily. She wasn't getting the osmosis method and likes everything stated explicitly. Things like counting pom pom balls and multiplying pom pom balls wasn't helping her learn math. I think teachers were taught that they need to make school fun, hands on and creative, but I don't think it's how kids learn. Even the writing prompts that were so open ended weren't working for my dd. At home, she did a lot of copying into a notebook, practice writing letters, math, constant reading. It also helped that I let her choose the books she likes for her reading. At school, they only had  "role model" books. Role models are great- but they were dry and just not holding her interest. I let her choose the pinkest, sparkliest princess books with stickers in them and she got engrossed. I'm a huge reader and I do like classical literature, but I don't GAF what kind of books my kids want to read.

Please don't think I'm anti- teacher, it's just that there often is NO curriculum, and the methods they follow are just bad. I'm so enraged by the publishing house monopoly on everything. I wish more money went to teachers and not these awful programs schools spend money on. [/quote]

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