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[quote=Anonymous]Former teacher and MCPS parent. I had to teach my third grader to read myself and bought a bunch of phonics books and drilled it into her in kindergarten, first and second because their old curriculum (Benchmark) was total crap. It taught the kids to guess words based on the picture and other garbage strategies to learn to read that are not grounded in evidence. My kid entered K knowing all letters and their sounds and some sight words and learned nothing from the Benchmark curriculum. It was a joke - instead of simple Bob type books to learn to sound out words she would come home with complex stories and paragraphs they expected the kindergarteners to guess read.

Half way through the kindergarten year I took control and got her additional support in school through the reading specialist who uses RGR and did nightly sessions with her that she cried through sometimes, but she is reading very well now. It’s absolutely ridiculous that MCPS ever used the Benchmark literacy curriculum and they screwed a generation of kids whose parents did not have the resources I did to teach their child.

I’m somewhat pleased about CKLA but the texts in 3rd are super dry, old fashioned, and boring. And they don’t read long form texts or books as a group from what I can gather which is also problematic, but at least they are using phonics now. [/quote]

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