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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]ALL grades K-6 are implementing word study.[/quote]

Good because I don't think "my 4th grader needs reading comprehension" lady understands how important word study, and understanding things like prefixes, suffixes, latin roots, etc. are to...wait for it....READING COMPREHENSION. This lady doesn't realize that it's a lot easier to understand (comprehend) something if you can figure out what the word means by looking at it. 
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You’re a moron so I won’t bother to explain anymore. Word study is now taking over reading comprehension, at least at our school. A truly effective LA program needs both.[/quote]

I am sorry that your brilliant decoder child that can read any word but apparently cannot comprehend what they are reading is going to have to sit through content in 4th grade that they find boring.  I can’t imagine what that must be like.  :roll: Fortunately the move to teaching phonics will be better for the district as a whole. FCPS spent 15-20 years not teaching kids to read. Many of these kids ended up needing special education services and taking up way more resources than the district has, which ultimately harms all students. [b] Not to mention the resources families have had to expend to get proper instruction.  Price out a “reading comprehension tutor” vs an OG tutor and therapist for a kid who hasn’t been taught to read and then get back to me.[/b] Or price out a Catholic school vs. a private school for kids with dyslexia.  I don’t believe that they will be doing no reading comprehension in 4th grade this year (aside from the fact that every other content area requires reading comprehension), but since your kid can decode, you can work on reading comp at home. [/quote]

Just saying, we are actually spending a small fortune to a speech pathologist who is doing the Lindamood Bell “Visualizing and Verbalizing” reading comprehension program for my kid with autism - they are 5 grade levels below but can decode everything. It’s not cheaper! And truthfully, it’s harder to fix true comprehension deficits. The county doesn’t have a great comprehension solution for kids with deep deficits in this area. [/quote]

PP, I am sorry that your child is struggling. I suspect that you are not the prior PP though and the reading groups she wants would not help your child.  And, I agree that tutoring for an autistic child with reading comprehension deficits 5 grades below grade level is expensive. I would think that your child also has an IEP and is getting reading pullouts. Not the situation that prior PP is talking about.  But a regular tutor for a Gen Ed kid is way less expensive than OG tutors or Lindamood Bell (which is also the system some dyslexic kids use).[/quote]

^^ this is the dyslexia parent I am talking about. [/quote]

Yeah, we dyslexia parents are crazy to want schools to teach our kids how to read, instead of teaching them to guess.  I don't think that schools should ONLY be teaching phonics, and from many of the responses on here, that isn't what is happening.  And, most reading comprehension doesn't even happen in reading groups.  It happens in social studies and science and math. It happens when your child reads at home.  But some parents think their kids are "too good" to learn phonics and I have no sympathy for that position when my kid spent 4 years in FCPS not being taught to read. We spent $80,000 to send her to private school for two years so she could actually get proper reading instruction. Your outrage shouldn't be that they are teaching phonics to 4th graders; your outrage should be that they didn't teach this to the current 4th graders when they were in K-2.

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