Anonymous
Post 10/14/2020 00:25     Subject: Re:Purple Challenge- is your child learning to read?
Anonymous wrote:Not if their district is using certain curriculum. I’m looking at you ARC and Lucy Calkins.


Teacher here. HATE Lucy calkins but have to use it. It is horrible. Open your mouth to admin and all you get is crap. So, if parents already haven’t done it, can you complain about how useless Lucy calkins is to admin? It’s proven to be failing kids yet so many schools are using it. I’m a newer teacher so admin is always on me so I can’t really stray off what they tell me to use. I’ve tried and gotten in some trouble from doing so.
Anonymous
Post 10/13/2020 11:19     Subject: Re:Purple Challenge- is your child learning to read?
Our district uses phonics instruction but then tests students using leveled texts. Makes zero sense.
Anonymous
Post 10/13/2020 10:25     Subject: Purple Challenge- is your child learning to read?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Or Lucy Calkins AND F&P. Argh.

I’ve already discovered (and started to undo!) so much damage for my first grader’s reading. It’s been amazing to see his progress since starting direct phonics and phonemic awareness with him at home. Why can’t schools figure this out?


I was surprised to hear that there are schools that aren't doing any phonics instruction. DCPS does explicit phonics instruction, along with some sight words and other strategies. I honestly didn't think that there were schools that didn't do phonics.


PP. Our schools does some phonics, but kids were expected to read things like “My dad is a firefighter” in the fall, while they didn’t even really talk about vowels until March. They phonics is light and disconnected from the reading books, and they don’t do any phonemic awareness at all.
Anonymous
Post 10/13/2020 09:31     Subject: Re:Purple Challenge- is your child learning to read?
Anonymous wrote:I didn't need to do the challenge because I live it here everyday with my 6y old. Consistent, systematic teaching of phonics and phonics awareness REALLY works! I have posted in these boards many times about this, but my child didn't even know how to sound out the alphabet in May and now she can easily read decodable books and tons of words in context and out of context by sounding them out.

In the beginning, when I hadn't even heard about Orton-Gillingham at some point I had a crying fit in my bedroom thinking she had an intellectual disability.



Right there with my 7 year old. How did you do this? I’ve seen OG books on amazon. Did you use air thing like this?
Anonymous
Post 10/13/2020 09:22     Subject: Purple Challenge- is your child learning to read?
Anonymous wrote:Or Lucy Calkins AND F&P. Argh.

I’ve already discovered (and started to undo!) so much damage for my first grader’s reading. It’s been amazing to see his progress since starting direct phonics and phonemic awareness with him at home. Why can’t schools figure this out?


I was surprised to hear that there are schools that aren't doing any phonics instruction. DCPS does explicit phonics instruction, along with some sight words and other strategies. I honestly didn't think that there were schools that didn't do phonics.
Anonymous
Post 10/12/2020 17:52     Subject: Purple Challenge- is your child learning to read?
Our kindergarten teacher used phonics. I started DC out with short repetitive books with pictures. Not sure which one did it, but he reads well and within a weeks when we first started looking at the books.
Anonymous
Post 10/12/2020 17:51     Subject: Purple Challenge- is your child learning to read?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Or Lucy Calkins AND F&P. Argh.

I’ve already discovered (and started to undo!) so much damage for my first grader’s reading. It’s been amazing to see his progress since starting direct phonics and phonemic awareness with him at home. Why can’t schools figure this out?


Teachers know how to teach reading but the people making the decisions don't.


Some teachers know. Others, including new teachers, don't know.
Anonymous
Post 10/12/2020 17:50     Subject: Purple Challenge- is your child learning to read?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Or Lucy Calkins AND F&P. Argh.

I’ve already discovered (and started to undo!) so much damage for my first grader’s reading. It’s been amazing to see his progress since starting direct phonics and phonemic awareness with him at home. Why can’t schools figure this out?


Teachers know how to teach reading but the people making the decisions don't.


Well, no, lots of teachers don't know how to teach reading, either. Remember, we're several generations into the "Phonics R Gross" fads emanating from the schools of education that trained them.

There's a long section in "Hard Words" about Mississippi trying to change this:

https://www.apmreports.org/episode/2018/09/10/hard-words-why-american-kids-arent-being-taught-to-read
Anonymous
Post 10/12/2020 16:56     Subject: Purple Challenge- is your child learning to read?
Anonymous wrote:Or Lucy Calkins AND F&P. Argh.

I’ve already discovered (and started to undo!) so much damage for my first grader’s reading. It’s been amazing to see his progress since starting direct phonics and phonemic awareness with him at home. Why can’t schools figure this out?


Teachers know how to teach reading but the people making the decisions don't.
Anonymous
Post 10/12/2020 16:53     Subject: Re:Purple Challenge- is your child learning to read?
Now that we are all teachers, how do we get involved in curriculum selection so that we can stop this nonsense?

I have heard from teacher friends they Calkins is expensive. We don’t have the slack in the budget anymore for ineffective instruction.
Anonymous
Post 10/12/2020 16:12     Subject: Re:Purple Challenge- is your child learning to read?
I didn't need to do the challenge because I live it here everyday with my 6y old. Consistent, systematic teaching of phonics and phonics awareness REALLY works! I have posted in these boards many times about this, but my child didn't even know how to sound out the alphabet in May and now she can easily read decodable books and tons of words in context and out of context by sounding them out.

In the beginning, when I hadn't even heard about Orton-Gillingham at some point I had a crying fit in my bedroom thinking she had an intellectual disability.

Anonymous
Post 10/12/2020 15:22     Subject: Purple Challenge- is your child learning to read?
Or Lucy Calkins AND F&P. Argh.

I’ve already discovered (and started to undo!) so much damage for my first grader’s reading. It’s been amazing to see his progress since starting direct phonics and phonemic awareness with him at home. Why can’t schools figure this out?
Anonymous
Post 10/12/2020 13:58     Subject: Re:Purple Challenge- is your child learning to read?
Anonymous wrote:Not if their district is using certain curriculum. I’m looking at you ARC and Lucy Calkins.


I would add Fountas & Pinnel to the reading curriculum wall of shame
Anonymous
Post 10/12/2020 13:36     Subject: Re:Purple Challenge- is your child learning to read?
Not if their district is using certain curriculum. I’m looking at you ARC and Lucy Calkins.
Anonymous
Post 10/12/2020 12:53     Subject: Purple Challenge- is your child learning to read?
For all of the suddenly homeschooling parents of K-1 kids, is your child really learning how to read? This explains so much.

A scientist did a series of experiments to see how her school’s curriculum was working for her daughter.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?fbclid=IwAR0zBZ0_FmrSkwSMwHt11IVkfVI6I0eIY6orOK61rXLPevxq0AvHqf4OY9w&v=Lxx7hs0qdKQ

Part 2- what works
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=h2pRi_B_Oj8&fbclid=IwAR0V-APzSobsRdl95xdLZiUUUi34fUhoJhcH2HFO85ZpR1W4bJf_Pg_p79c