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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DP.  My DC told me in 1st grade that "Good readers look at the pictures."

Uh what?  Good readers look at the letters/words.  [/quote]

Why would good readers ignore either one? [/quote]

Good readers also look at tables, graphs, maps, etc when reading...so why not pictures?[/quote]

Do you need to look at a picture to decipher content?  You can't decipher the verbage/keys/labels or anything else  on the tables, graphs, or maps unless you are a competent reader.   The pedagogical entrepreneur 's methods had poor objective results. https://seidenbergreading.net/2019/12/06/lucy-calkins-on-the-attack/

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Quote from the article I posted which is a good example of reliance on pictures.  A person riding a animal.  On what planet can pony resemble horse as a word?   [i]Whoa. A child who misreads horse as pony does not need to check the letters or decide if it looks right. That child needs to stop guessing and learn to decode words. A semantic substitution error like horse read as pony occurs when the child is guessing based on “cues”.[/i]

And why people are desperate for charters.  24-25k cost per pupil per year ,  children in school all day, and the majority still cannot read.  Sorry it's from the New York Post but where else can you get this info that goes against the Party line?  https://nypost.com/2021/06/16/troubled-nyc-school-told-mom-to-pull-her-smart-son-out/

No one needs to afterschool in early grades for  basics.  [/quote]

For books with information that goes against the party line:

- Why kids don’t like school (this is mostly for teachers wanting to incorporate principles of cognitive science into their instruction but shows how balanced literacy and such is not good)

- The Knowledge gap. [/quote]

Yeah, what Wexler and Hanaford and Willingham argue for isn’t new, but it is weirdly unpopular. Imagine if FCPS went with curriculum that follows their well-evidenced arguments. That would actually lead to gains in equity.[/quote]

Silly PP, FCPS doesn't actually care about equity. They spend all their time/resources/effort virtue-signaling (spending money on school name changes, revamping admission policies for TJHSST, tweeting about the Israel-Palestine conflict), but it's too hard to stand up to the lobbyists and educrats that push junk curriculum. Plus, what would all those extraneous Gatehouse employees do if FCPS were to choose a well-researched curriculum, and then stick with it?  They have to change to the latest fad every 5-10 years and waste teachers' time on useless, fad-based professional development, rather than training teachers how to use the science of reading to teach kids to read![/quote]

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