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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Wow you are very hyped up about this reading war thing. While balanced literacy has some bad points, I found it my job to supplement at home. Both of my kids read in Kindergarten and we used hooked in phonics at home with whatever the school used at school. Isn’t that our job as parents? It is not in my ethos to think a school will do all the educating of my children and I don’t relate to parents who believe they shouldn’t have to parent their kids.

Using phonics or balanced literacy doesn’t change that we as parents need to support our kids through school. There always will be holes in mass education. [/quote]
This thread isn't about phonics and reading workshop, but about the terrible writers' workshop curriculum.  I assume you're also working on writing with your kids daily to teach them to write?  Because if they use writers workshop at your school, your kids aren't learning to write at school.

I expect schools to teach.  I'll fill in holes where my kid needs extra help, but this is a curriculum that isn't serving any students well.  It's a total dud and so bad it's negligent to continue to use it.[/quote]

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