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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid brought home a spelling test today. An actual spelling test. Hurrah!! I’m thrilled they’re finally getting explicit focus on this [/quote]

I'm a teacher who is not impressed with the spelling. I've been teaching 20 years and it's never been a best practice to give all students the same 15 spelling words. I have always differentiated the spelling lists with a focus on patterns that specific students need to master.[/quote]

Well, my kids went through MCPS and never had spelling. What an improvement to have any spelling.[/quote]
BS[/quote]

I'm not sure why you would think this is BS. There was no spelling in MCPS for my kids.[/quote]
Which  schools?[/quote]

If your school or teacher was teaching spelling, it was outside of the Benchmark curriculum.  Last year my DS' 2nd grade teacher DID send home a short list of spelling words each week, but talking to the other parents that was not universal, only one other 2nd grade teacher at the school was doing this.  [/quote]

Have they not been teaching Spelling AT ALL or has it just not looked like sending home spelling list?  Because if they’ve been doing absolutely no word study (ie. word families, vocabulary, prefixes, suffixes, etc) then yeah that’s a problem.[/quote]

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