Anonymous
Post 09/26/2025 07:51     Subject: Middle school english curriculum
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:After some investigating, it appears that my daughter’s teacher at a DCC middle school is primarily using the CKLA version for emergent English learners for whole-class instruction.

I’m curious whether students in other parts of the county are receiving workbooks or the MCPS binded collections of instructional materials instead. I would love to see a 6th-grade English syllabus from schools outside the DCC to better understand how curriculum and materials may differ across the county.

If anyone is willing to share their school’s syllabus or provide insight into the materials their 6th graders are using, I would greatly appreciate it!

Thank you in advance.


Is your daughter is in a class with numerous English Language learners? If so, then what would you prefer they do? Teach two curriculums simultaneously? This is the primary reason that MCPS needs to do away with “honors for all.”


Even honors for all has ELD students in a separate class. Those class are under the ELD listings, not English. For example: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tlr_B-DC5YOgrnPqN51OKyJOL7zZALUF/view

The PP you responded to should be speaking with the English content specialist and the relevant AP at her school. Non-ELD students should be getting the regular CKLA curriculum. And if that doesn’t happen even after speaking with the school, she should escalate to the secondary English department in central office and the school’s principal. -DP
Anonymous
Post 09/26/2025 04:57     Subject: Middle school english curriculum
Anonymous wrote:After some investigating, it appears that my daughter’s teacher at a DCC middle school is primarily using the CKLA version for emergent English learners for whole-class instruction.

I’m curious whether students in other parts of the county are receiving workbooks or the MCPS binded collections of instructional materials instead. I would love to see a 6th-grade English syllabus from schools outside the DCC to better understand how curriculum and materials may differ across the county.

If anyone is willing to share their school’s syllabus or provide insight into the materials their 6th graders are using, I would greatly appreciate it!

Thank you in advance.


Is your daughter is in a class with numerous English Language learners? If so, then what would you prefer they do? Teach two curriculums simultaneously? This is the primary reason that MCPS needs to do away with “honors for all.”
Anonymous
Post 09/25/2025 22:23     Subject: Middle school english curriculum
My 8th grader is almost through the first reader in CKLA (Latin American voices I believe) and they are starting lit circles next week. They are starting Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas soon, too, and going on the field trip to the Frederick Douglas house. There has been regular reading and grammar homework sent home, and teacher said at BTSN that HW will become nightly soon. This is night-and-day different from any prior instruction in MCPS, MS or ES.
Anonymous
Post 09/25/2025 22:13     Subject: Middle school english curriculum
Teacher seems very good but no info at all here on CKLA or curriculum at DCC school
Anonymous
Post 09/25/2025 21:12     Subject: Middle school english curriculum
I haven't seen any ckla materials come home from rosa parks....maybe I'm missing something?
Anonymous
Post 09/25/2025 20:25     Subject: Middle school english curriculum
Anonymous wrote:After some investigating, it appears that my daughter’s teacher at a DCC middle school is primarily using the CKLA version for emergent English learners for whole-class instruction.

I’m curious whether students in other parts of the county are receiving workbooks or the MCPS binded collections of instructional materials instead. I would love to see a 6th-grade English syllabus from schools outside the DCC to better understand how curriculum and materials may differ across the county.

If anyone is willing to share their school’s syllabus or provide insight into the materials their 6th graders are using, I would greatly appreciate it!

Thank you in advance.


What?! That’s insane, PP, I’m sorry. Not a middle school parent so I can’t help you out, but I hope you get to the bottom of what’s going on.
Anonymous
Post 09/25/2025 19:58     Subject: Middle school english curriculum
After some investigating, it appears that my daughter’s teacher at a DCC middle school is primarily using the CKLA version for emergent English learners for whole-class instruction.

I’m curious whether students in other parts of the county are receiving workbooks or the MCPS binded collections of instructional materials instead. I would love to see a 6th-grade English syllabus from schools outside the DCC to better understand how curriculum and materials may differ across the county.

If anyone is willing to share their school’s syllabus or provide insight into the materials their 6th graders are using, I would greatly appreciate it!

Thank you in advance.
Anonymous
Post 09/25/2025 17:23     Subject: Middle school english curriculum
Anonymous wrote:What materials are people seeing coming home for ckla? I'm not happy with my daughter's English instruction so far this year.


Why not?
Anonymous
Post 09/25/2025 15:50     Subject: Middle school english curriculum
What materials are people seeing coming home for ckla? I'm not happy with my daughter's English instruction so far this year.
Anonymous
Post 09/25/2025 15:26     Subject: Middle school english curriculum
How's the new curriculum going so far? Do folks like it?
Anonymous
Post 09/09/2025 22:47     Subject: Middle school english curriculum
It is now in use at all MS except the humanities magnet programs. My 8th grader has been using one of the readers starting early last week and has grammar, writing, and reading for homework. This is a first in MCPS.
Anonymous
Post 09/09/2025 22:44     Subject: Middle school english curriculum
Anonymous wrote:Are all middle schools required to use it? I have not yet seen any ckla materials come home.


Would think so but I don't recall what the implementation was supposed to look like. I do believe there was supposed to be summer training. Look back at the Spring BOE meetings. Probably March or April.
Anonymous
Post 09/09/2025 22:40     Subject: Middle school english curriculum
Are all middle schools required to use it? I have not yet seen any ckla materials come home.
Anonymous
Post 09/09/2025 22:24     Subject: Middle school english curriculum
CKLA was approved for MS.
Anonymous
Post 09/09/2025 22:20     Subject: Middle school english curriculum
Are they going to use ckla at the middle school or is that still not approved?

DC has a learning disability in writing - and not having a cohesive curriculum, spelling instruction, grammar instruction, etc. over the years has made it even harder to remediate.