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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m a teacher. Our third graders have taken personal narratives, “all about books”, content area research, realistic fiction and poetry through the writing process. They planned, drafted, revised and edited their work. They met with peers and teachers in writing conferences. Their writing was graded using the FCPS rubrics. Our focus lessons have covered punctuation, capitalization, paragraphing, etc.[/quote]this is that Lucy Calkins garbage.  With her method she does not teach sentence structure, grammar, and spelling.  [/quote]+1. There are no lessons and practice on each grammar component any longer.  They just ask the kids to simply write a personal narrative, for example.  They have not taught parts of speech, possession, apostrophes, rules, etc. Just slop some words down with no eye to run on sentence or diversifying sentence structure.  Kids are expected to have intuition that  a sentence needs a subject and predicate.  It’s sad.  [/quote]

This may be school specific. I teach 2nd and have lessons from FCPS (in the pacing guide) on apostrophes, possession, etc.[/quote]

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Third grade. [/quote]

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I don't know where people are getting the idea that there is no grammar, formal aspects of writing taught in FCPS.  It's been a part of every grade level of both of my kids' K-8th grade education in FCPS.  It's in the FCPS  curriculum and pacing guides and they consistently do exercises.  I've volunteered at school (pre-pandemic) and I've seen them doing the exercises.  There is also free writing where the emphasis is not on teaching grammar, but they have received plenty of formal writing instruction.  I'm not sure where parents are getting the idea that it's not taught in FCPS.[/quote]

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