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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Veteran FCPS elementary teacher here. We used to have language arts books and workbooks, different from reading books. So we worked through chapters on punctuation and parts of speech and so forth, and then they took the books away, and said, teach a mini-lesson as things come up naturally. Right. Hey, the wind is blowing from the west today, and I have ten extra minutes, so I’ll talk about proper nouns today with whatever materials I can come up with, or just the whiteboard.

It went away with the spelling books, and after they took spelling off the report cards. No need to keep grades? No time to teach? No materials to easily use? Just skip it.[/quote]

I'd be curious to hear more (from teachers) about why these changes from FCPS. I would also think that if teachers felt strongly about it they'd keep it...[/quote]They only teach to the ‘test’, the SOL test. That test does not need cursive writing, spelling, or knowing the difference between coordinating or subordinating conjunctions!  Thus, this material will not be taught.  Goodbye material.  [/quote]

Is this a cynical take or the truth? Teachers? [/quote]

DP, not cynical. Unless it’s specifically covered in one of the data points that we send to VDOE it is not a priority.

One of the reasons they added phonics back in was because the students reading levels had dropped so drastically that they couldn’t get through the reading passages/questions on the SOL exam. You can’t pass the third grade SOL if you’re reading on a Kinder or first grade level. If students were doing well on the reading SOL’s, they never would’ve added phonics back in. (ES Teacher)[/quote]

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