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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]https://www.tulsakids.com/is-ckla-the-best-way-to-teach-children-to-read/

Interesting to see how Amplify CKLA is perceived from people who use it in the real world with ESL and SPED populations.

I haven’t vetted this website, but wanted to add this as food for thought.[/quote]

This is one of the few negative articles I have seen on CKLA and ppl keep sharing it. I suggest you go to the website https://knowledgematterscampaign.org/ and read the many positive stories regarding the many districts adoption of CKLA. CKLA is not the only knowledge rich curriculum out there - you will see by reading the stories on the website that there are many others. I, for example would have preferred APS adopt Wit & Wisdom which I absolutely love. But Wit & Wisdom is intense and even more difficult to implement so it scares many teachers. I’m thinking that that’s perhaps the reason why APS is recommending CKLA over Wit & Wisdom but who knows. Either way it’s an excellent knowledge rich curriculum and is evidence based. No curriculum is perfect of course but thankfully we have great teachers at APS that are smart enough to figure out how to best tailor CKLA to the needs of their students.  [/quote]

Looks like you’d need to add Wilson for Wit & Wisdom. 
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Yep… but Arlington schools already use Wilson’s Fundations so i figured it would be a great fit. I say Arlington schools but apparently not all of them. ATS does and I’m pretty sure there are others. [/quote]

Campbell also uses Fundations.[/quote]

So two option schools? It’s not broadly used.

I think it’s be great if more schools used it. 
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ATS poster here. I’m pretty sure more schools use it. I remember seeing a chart shared on AEM on the foundational skills curriculum that APS schools use. There were definitely more than two schools that use Wilson’s Fundations. Fundations is great. But my understanding is that it would not be necessary if APS adopts CKLA because CKLA has its own phonics program. I wonder what schools such as ATS and Campbell would do. Would they just get rid of Fundations? I looked into it more and apparently to connect Wilson’s Fundations to Wit & Wisdom and to teach them as one program schools would have to purchase Geodes. Geodes are the Wit & Wisdom phonics readers that align with Fundations. However Geodes is super expensive and many schools do not have the budget for them. Perhaps this factored into APS’ decision to pick CKLA over Wit & Wisdom. Both are great though. This is a massive improvement. I only wish I had a math background so that I could figure out if the math curriculum they are adopting is good as well.[/quote]

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