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[quote=Anonymous]I'm a parent with a 6th grader who has always struggled with reading and especially with writing (midl dyslexia and a spelling disorder). I was very concerned about Benchmark because my child is a slow reader and writer, and as I mentioned struggles with spelling and writing an organized paper. Benchmark has been good for my kid - her writing has improved significantly. Like her teacher gave me an essay that she wrote that was two pages long and told me that she had declined her writing accommodations.

This is obviously a very specific case and a very specific opinion, but this curriculum is loads better than what they've done in previous grades. Her essay in previous grades were short and disorganized and I think part of it was that the kids had to do their own research on random topics. This seems a lot more focused, which is really good for my child.

I also have a third grader who was lucky enough to be in a phonics-based program starting in K, but even her writing has improved and just this month she has gone back to reading chapter books (she was one of those kids who only read graphic novels), so I'm pleased with her too.

The other thing I really like is that both of my kids bring paper home. In previous years, we never got handwritten things back. Maybe that was just our school, but everything was google slides, so I am happy to see real writing including essays on paper.

Is this as good as reading and writing when I was a child? Nope, not even close. Nobody is reading full books, and writing book reports. There's still no homework. I do, however, think it's significantly better than what my older child was exposed to before, which always just seemed like a big jumbled up mess of things pulled together from different sources. So I'm happy this is something that is organized and structured.

Haven't seen SOL scores, but my older child's are never great anyway :)[/quote]

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