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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'll chime in as another MCPS elementary teacher. I hope we get rid of Benchmark and keep Really Great Reading for K-2 for phonics. We'll still need something to replace Benchmark.[/quote]

I'm about to initiate a new post to complain about RGR as I have an elder kid who went through the terrible curriculum 2.0, and a younger one who just started the benchmark, which was better than C2.0, but then started to be taught and tested on the RGR.

For the spelling test (1st grade), this is graded wrong: PRO-FIT. The correct answer is PROF-IT. 
PLAST-IC is wrong. PLAS-TIC is correct.
RA-DISH is wrong. RAD-ISH is correct.

I receive such non-sense examples pretty much every week. I couldn't be convinced this curriculum is better at teaching kids spelling. It's breaking the root word rules. Since you are a teacher and like the RGR, could you explain? Thanks.[/quote]

Not a teacher, but that’s just basic breaking words into syllables.  We say prof-it, no pro-fit.  If it were ra-dish, we would pronounce it ray-dish.  It needs to be rad-ish to be a short a.  [/quote]

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