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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Orton-Gillingham follows the Science of Reading (phonics) and not Calkins

Highly recommend listening to the Sold a Story podcast before anyone goes to back to school night!

As the commenter notes on the first page mentioned, so many of the veiled Calkins teaching methods are noted on these private school website. It may not explicitly say her name anymore but the practice is still there.

Beauvoir, GDS, Maret, Sidwell, NPS - they all are still pushing the outdated (and not based on science) methods [/quote]

Is NPS using Calkins? I have never heard them say that but I did hear at back to school they are using writer’s workshop for writing and that was the first time I’d heard that. I thought they’ve said Orton in the past but maybe I misunderstood?

I honestly don’t know what approach NPS is using because it seems like a hybrid of “guess based on the picture” and memory worlds and phonics. I have been absolutely devoted to forcing her to practice phonics with me every night and teaching her letter combination sounds. It’s frustrating to see her looking at a picture and guessing the wrong word when she can easily sound it out. I have in the past had to keep asking her not to guess and to sound out the word and she tells me the school is telling her to look at the picture for clues.  [/quote]

I’m sorry but with the amount of $$$ you are paying for tuition, why aren’t you demanding that they stop this Lucy Caulkins insanity? [/quote]

I am a parent at NPS and have a background in reading instruction.  I asked ALL the questions about how they teach reading when we were looking at schools.  They do use writing workshop, which is actually not a bad program for teaching writing. It is just not a reading instruction program.  Those are two different skills. NPS uses an O-G phonics-based program to teach reading. My kid learned to become an excellent reader in K and 1st.  His first grade teacher was a former reading specialist and she was terrific. [/quote]

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