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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s based one fake research. What more could you need to know?

Listen to sold a story, read any of the articles, form your own opinion….

As a parent, former teacher, curriculum specialist there’s no way I would want my kids at a school that uses this approach. It’s likely a huge part of why we see so many young adults who are failure to launch kids and why we see so many kids unprepared for college and career. Kids of all kinds need direct instruction! [/quote]

https://hechingerreport.org/opinion-a-call-for-rejecting-the-newest-reading-wars/

Critics have said Sold A Story is overly pushing phonics alone. They say if you teach phonics and bring in supplementary material, Calkins, writers workshop, F&P can be great. 
[/quote]Sold a Story is from a few years ago. It's important because it largely broke the story, but is far from the last word.  There's been more research since then that has identified more serious issues with the LC curriculum, including a lack of vocabulary instruction, a lack of spelling and grammar instruction, a lack of writing instruction, a lack of rigor, a lack of instructional content, etc.   It's terrible. And you're hearing directly from parents on this thread that I own it failed their kids.  No link will overcome our first hand experience.[/quote]

This sounds like our first elementary school. How do I found out if our specific curriculum is based on Calkins? I’ve never heard of the curriculum we follow as it’s just based on an educational approach book and not a set of actual curriculum, workbooks, and work. Buzz words I’ve heard are studio literacy, readers workshop and writers workshop. But there is no work sent home for me to see what the writing instruction is. [/quote]

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