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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The important piece is that the youngest children (K-2) are also having phonics-based instruction. I heard Lucy Calkins adapted her curriculum to include phonics - is that accurate?[/quote]
The issue is that phonics isn't the only thing wrong with the curriculum. It is all based on theory that kids will teach themselves because everyone is intrinsically a reader, which is total nonsense.  You can't do a short phonics lesson, hand a kid a book, and expect them to teach themselves to read.   It's awful, even with a phonics add on.[/quote]

Different kids need different things. But no one can get anything different so everyone must get the same thing so no one will get what they need.[/quote]
They've done studies.  Something like 5-10% of kids can learn to read using LC.  I'm sure a few more can make progress with some additional phonics.  But the curriculum still assumes kids teach themselves, and that is a recipe for failure for most kids.[/quote]

More parent used to read to their kids and teach them at home. Expecting school to teach your kid to read is a recipe for failure for most kids.[/quote]

I expect schools to teach my kids to read and they have.  I don’t know why you think parents stopped reading to their kids.    My kids went to preschool and i read to them from day one, went to libraries, book stores, puzzles, games, they were prepared for school.  Kids don’t teach themselves on their own.  They are surrounded by the written language since they were born. Schools start formal reading.

Some kids have dyslexia and will need extra help, probably in all subjects.   Other forms of learning disabilities will also require specialized help beyond classroom work.   Phonics is the best way for schools to teach early reading.   [/quote]

1. Reading to your kids is nice but proven to have zero effect on their reading and writing ability. 
2. Schools were invented to teach kids because parents could not - because they either didn't know or were busy working. That hasn't changed. [/quote]

+1 seriously, my mom did not speak much English when I was learning to read and certainly didn't teach me. There was zero expectation that she should teach me to read. She also didn't really read to me. My DH had a similar situation growing up

Schools exist in large part to teach kids to read. The notion that if kids don't learn it is because they have bad parents is gross and probably a little bit racist since we all know which parents some of y'all have in mind. Stop blaming the parents when you fail at the basic thing you are paid to do.[/quote]

DP.  Parent.  It's not blaming to indicate that parents should play a role in early literacy.  Used books are some of the cheapest used items you can buy.  At my local library you can buy 3-4 for the price of a candy bar.  And there are charities that give them out or mail them to your house.  And schools often give them out and quietly look after allowances for kids without pocket money at book fair time.  The schools usually send home material that suggests what the parents can do to help. So in this kind of environment, it seems like intentional disregard to leave all the work to the schools.

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Parents have to read to their kids. Schools cannot produce strong readers and writers without home support [/quote]

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