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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]7th grade FCPS, NO assigned reading books. Just Lexia and being a book to read in class. It’s bad. [/quote]

Why is that bad? I'm assuming your child is also reading assigned short stories, poems, and articles?

I have two kids in 7th grade, one in AA and one in a co-taught class.. Both have done Lexia, both have read the same short story and article. The AA class has read a poem that the co-taught class has not, and the co-taught class has read an article that the AA class has not. They both also have to,read a book independently.

There has been lots of writing instruction and practice which is good because both kids got practically zero writing instruction in elementary school. [/quote][/quote]It’s awful because you can count on one hand the few passages that they have read in the past 7 weeks.  There is no emphasis on reading a novel.  There is no grammar, again!  There are no Greek roots or Latin prefixes anymore (they at least had them in elementary).  There are no more weekly passages for comprehension.  There are no more questions assigned after reading their novels(because there are no novels assigned).  There are no sets of vocabulary words coming home. They have never learned the parts of speech or sentence diagramming. It’s just not rigorous.  [/quote]

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