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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid's FCPS 3rd grade reading group all read different books on their own that had nothing to do with one another. One reading a biography, another a science book, another a historical novel, and another a fantasy novel and then the teacher would ask about each one separately or ask the same question to all such as pick out a word you don't know which didn't really teach anything. I can't imagine a worse reading group than what we experienced in elementary. The only good part about the program was that my child had reading minutes and variety of novels but the portion with the teacher was useless. They could have just done this at home. There are plenty of great basal readers out there that teach language arts better than independent reading time even if they read fewer novels per year.[/quote]

This makes me so mad.  Truly infuriated.  Especially when I think back to my language arts classes in FCPS in the mid-80s.  We learned grammar and spelling, and everyone was expected to read widely from a planned list.  Book reports were required.  Whatever they're doing now is disgraceful.

I will say that FCPS high school was excellent.  But elementary and middle leave so much to be desired.[/quote]

It also would have been so easy to fix. Just have everyone read a biography one month. A fantasy novel another. Switch between a planned book for all one month and a book of choice another. It's was so hard just to watch the absolute cluelessness of the teachers. Even good teachers swept up into thinking they were following a good reading and writing program. They didn't even write. How could these teachers not even see they weren't teaching writing when the kids barely wrote a sentence once a week?[/quote]

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