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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You’re not alone. My daughter is too and now has zero interest in reading. She also is scared to take English honors next year now. She and her peers absolutely hate Benchmark - it’s mostly nonfiction (think units about government and history) and so so boring.[/quote]
[b]It sounds like she's using to reading really easy dumbed down things[/b] and now that it's challenging, she doesn't like it. IME that's pretty typical of all kids who had a really easy time on something and then all of the sudden are challenged. I'm sure she's up to the challenge though, tell her the more time she spends on this now, the easier H English will be for her next year.[/quote]

No not at all. Please don’t insult my daughter. She was used to reading fiction (novels) which she loves and now only gets nonfiction in this awful Benchmark program. They had to research a country’s government at one point. A lot of kids don’t like government or social studies because the topics are boring and dry.[/quote]

I'd say we need all the education we can get in government and how it functions . . .  [/quote]

+ 100.  Geez to the PP who's complaining about her child being challenged and taught actual facts.  [b]The novels my DD (now in high school) read in upper elementary in book clubs that masqueraded as a curriculum were often at like a 2nd grade reading level. [/b] I have a younger child now in 3rd grade and thank goodness they have a real curriculum now.[/quote]

I have to wonder what school you were at that did that. My child has never been assigned a novel that was at a [b]2nd grade level[/b] in upper grades. I’m going to guess you really don’t understand reading levels and were exaggerating. Luckily I do know reading levels and lots of children’s literature because I am a former FCPS teacher. I also follow my children’s work very carefully. I am able to see the comprehension questions and whatever work went with the novels. All of the novels my child has had in the past (and she got to choose) were either on grade level or above level and were very interesting.

Did you read any of the other responses? It’s about the selection of Benchmark reading passages being boring and not appealing to most kids. Also, teachers have been saying it’s literally not even a full novel. [/quote]

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