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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]English major and mother of three FCPS ES students.  I abhor Word Study.  I consider it a waste of time and truly ineffective.

I have three terrible spellers who resist my attempts to simply study their spelling words the way I did; memorize, continue to read widely and learn the definitions.

It seems that teachers today are bogged down with teaching methodologies and are moving too far away from the mechanics of literacy.

I am grateful for my own elementary school education in a depressed rural area.  My school had no extra resources but was equipped with engaging, semi-strict teachers who made us memorize spelling lists and be able to use each word in a sentence of our creation.  Same school insisted in cursive writing and lessons in spelling would integrate writing spelling words in cursive.  Win-win.[/quote]

I thank God that I went to school when and where I did. We actually had textbooks and (gasp!) teachers actually taught - reading, writing, spelling, math, geography, history, science, etc. Schools need to get back to basics.

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I bet they required book reports or reviews as well. I don't blame teachers. Kids say they don't like something, parents complain, and then teachers have an out not to teach it anymore because it isn't "fun".[/quote]

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