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[quote=Anonymous]My school purchased the Units of Study (Lucy Calkins) virtual resources this year. I just finished her stupid “Up the Ladder” units for reading and writing. Soon we begin the first fiction unit. The company, Heinemman (I think I’m spelling that wrong), has people from Teacher’s College clearly reading a script and smiling an INSANE amount as they read it with poor fluency. In the video for families that introduces the fiction reading unit, Lizzie Van Tassel, our “co-teacher” from Teacher’s College, literally say this:

“because we are doing so much reading online we’ll want to really broaden our definition of text in that it’s absolutely okay if students are reading things that we wouldn’t traditionally call ‘texts’ but are reading things like online graphic novels, or audio books with the read to me function, um you might even see some kids um reading some ‘videos’ and that’s beautiful work that they can still engage in the really challenging, important work of fiction reading, um to interpret their characters and grow ideas about them. Um all of those methods, those formats for books, are a beautiful way to get kids excited about fiction reading. And um don’t feel like kids are doing anything naughty when they really expand their definition of what reading is.”

My school has Epic for books but we also sent books home with kids and they can use the public and school library. They’re also middle and upper-middle class families, so I’m sure they can afford books to read. Why is Teacher’s College telling families that their kids should listen to audio books and “read” videos? I wanted to punch Lizzie in the face. Sorry.

I just can’t stand anything to do with Teacher’s College, Units of Study, or Lucy Calkins. But I have to use this crap. 🤦🏻‍♀️ I teach fourth grade so I think they should be trying to read chapter books even if some read at a first grade level (thanks Lucy, you betch). There are simple chapter books like Magic Treehouse. Just letting kids read whatever the hell they want during Reading is crazy to me. They should have time to “drop everything and read” whatever they want for 20 minutes a day during the school day. But they also need to be challenged a bit. Of course the first lesson in the next unit was ALL about finding books that aren’t too hard or too easy. Like do we need to review what “just right books” men’s every year Lucy? You’d think kids would be able to tell if a book is too easy or too hard. And it’s okay to sometimes read books that aren’t “just right.” The whole curriculum seems like it was literally made by a lunatic. [/quote]

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