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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Op here. I forgot to mention that he also has speech delay. My older child is a special need child and he can read chapter books and does multiplication at age 5. Not for comparison, I would never expect that my younger child would struggle with reading/writing and he is not good with math. He has IEP or child find program since 1 year old, so I have been keeping track of his development.  Preschool teacher has tried extra effort to do 1:1 on him, and it took him a long long time to learn phonics. His IQ seems fine, but I wonder if he is dyslexia. He is going to 1st grade, and we are not holding him back. [/quote]

Don't compare kids.  MCPS ES curriculum is not very good.  I would get a reading tutor and ask his private SLP to work on it.  My speech disordered kid was reading very early, other kids I know were but many were not.  Our SLP did a lot of visual work and we read a lot at home.  We used apps and workbooks as well.  Handwriting/writing was delayed and we did about 10-20 minutes a day of Kumon workbooks and it really helped (not the class, just the workbooks).  And, if he's not in private speech get him in private speech.  Phonics never worked for my kid.  It was sight reading.  We also used the CC for videos and did a lot of reading vidoes.[/quote]

Do you have a kid using the new curriculum in K?  I have heard good things about it.  Not to say this parent/child may not need more, just wondering if your assessment that the curriculum is not good is based on the current curriculum or a previous one.[/quote]

No but even if it’s better it’s not working for op child. [/quote]

It might be working fine but the expectaions for a kindergartener are too high and unrealistic.[/quote]

For some.  There is also plenty of K students who are doing just fine.  And the problem isn’t the expectations of kindergarteners, it’s the expectation of Teachers given the constraints.[/quote]

The expectations aren't a problem, its parents like you talking about them but doing nothing to support their kids at home.  They are developed for 5 year olds.[/quote]

With the new curicullum, are teachers sending home anything to reinforce what they're learning at school, or at least provde a weekly/monthly list of the sounds they're going over?  RGR was a vast improvement over Benchmark alone but I still had no idea what they were doing unless I asked, and I hated pestering the teacher every week.  And they were still sending home Benchmark "books" which did not align at all with the reading level.  I bought decodable books on my own but I know I wasn't the only parent who felt a bit lost as to *how* to support my child.

My sister's kids are in a british school where phonics instruction is started in reception (equivalent of pre-K here) but it just seems much more structured and thought out.  They get weekly updates on what the children have been learning, example videos of how sounds and blending are taught, and little decodable readers sent home at the end of the week.  Much easier for parents to support their kid with a little guidance.[/quote]

If you google, you should be able to find information on RGR or Benchmark.  However, most teachers in MCPS don't communicate with parents or let them know what's going on so plan to be on your own like you were and find ways to support them outside of it.  Its ok to pester the teacher every week.[/quote]

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