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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am all for it. While there are a lot of negatives such of lack of choice and teacher autonomy there are many pluses. The main one is that it will equalize the quality of teaching across the county. Your student will get the same reading instruction if they are being taught by a 30 year veteran teacher in a rich area or are be being taught by a teacher trainee or long term sub in a title one, the book literally tells you what to say. Right now there is reading “curriculum” but it is strongly suggested and many schools don’t even use the phonics lessons and use something else and the writing plans are minimal . The new curriculum is all inclusive and had reading comprehension , writing, grammar, and small group instruction.[/quote]T

That sounds kind of awful for teachers.  But I will admit that my older DC was taught to read with "Good readers look at the pictures" three-cueing, while my younger DC has gotten a decent amount of phonics.  And neither of them have a strong grasp of grammar and sentence structure, or have any grasp at all of formal writing.  Lucy Calkins has a lot to answer for.  [/quote]

Unless there is an older teacher sneaking those methods in three cueing is unheard of now. Most new teachers wouldn’t even be able to tell you what that is because colleges don’t teach it anymore.[/quote]

It was only 3 years ago.  I know that FCPS has really changed their reading curriculum, for the better.  If they change their writing curriculum, I'll be happy. I 'm not sure an entirely scripted all-inclusive reading and writing program is needed - I guess we'll see how it is.  What our teachers need more of is autonomy, not more scripts.  [/quote]
100% agree with you. My current 5th grader was taught with the Lucy Calkins method and it took two years of tutoring to get her up to the appropriate reading level (one of those years was online due to Covid), but her writing is still atrocious and she doesn't know any grammar and she can't spell. [/quote]

I retired last year after 30 years with FCPS. Somehow I never learned much about Lucy Calkins. I remember a few years before I retired (perhaps around 2019 or so) hearing a reading specialist refer to "Lucy" during a CT meeting. I kept thinking, "Who is this Lucy she keeps referencing?". Then perhaps two years ago they started talking about how "Lucy" was on it's way out.[/quote]

So funny, me too. I would see a few other teachers use the materials, but [b]several members on my team didn’t use it and we were never asked about it[/b].[/quote]

Same. A few years ago we had one teacher on our ES grade team that seemed to dabble in it.[/quote]

The workshop/center model and the idea of teaching writing first without instruction or correction come from Lucy Calkins.  If you have had writer's workshop in your classroom, then that's where it came from.  [/quote]

I also didn’t do writers workshop. Not an effective tool considering the time allotted for writing - 20 min/day.[/quote]

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