Anonymous
Post 06/15/2021 14:18     Subject: If You Want to Get Away From Lucy Caulkins/Balanced Literacy For Reading
Anonymous wrote:I am an ES teacher. Honestly, I know very little about Lucy Caulkins.


Perhaps you do not know it by name, but if you know a colleague who uses the phrase “use your picture power” with the young kids learning to read (K-1)—THAT is the horrible Lucy Caulkins.

I HATE that phrase and my child’s teacher said it over and over and over and over and over. How about not using your picture power and instead, have the kids focus on the sight words, blends, digraphs, etc…? 🤯🤯🤯🤯

Another parent privileged enough to sign up with an O-G tutor once I realized FCPS’s (??) the teacher’s (??) method was crap.
Anonymous
Post 06/15/2021 14:17     Subject: If You Want to Get Away From Lucy Caulkins/Balanced Literacy For Reading
Teachers in FCPS use the planning and pacing guide. The UOS are a resource that some schools use to deliver instruction. The UOS have never been an FCPS curriculum. The ppg is balanced literacy- next year all k-2 teachers will be required to teach 15 minutes of phonics. I would not expect them to switch to structured literacy this coming year. More like adding in more explicit phonics to what was already happening. Only 2 people per school are being trained in OG so a long way to go for parents who think some huge change is coming next year.
Anonymous
Post 06/15/2021 14:11     Subject: If You Want to Get Away From Lucy Caulkins/Balanced Literacy For Reading
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I am an ES teacher. Honestly, I know very little about Lucy Caulkins.


Do you teach a primary grade?


I teach third grade. I’ve never been “trained” in LC and it doesn’t really come up in planning discussions such as CT meetings.
Anonymous
Post 06/15/2021 14:03     Subject: If You Want to Get Away From Lucy Caulkins/Balanced Literacy For Reading
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I am an ES teacher. Honestly, I know very little about Lucy Caulkins.


Do you teach a primary grade?


PP, not all schools use it.


Thanks. I went looking for the FCPS page on balanced literacy that used to be right on the website and couldn't find it. Looks like they are updating - hopefully as part of updating the curriculum. They used to state that all schools used balanced literacy. Now it looks like:

https://www.fcps.edu/academics/academic-overview/language-arts
Anonymous
Post 06/15/2021 13:58     Subject: If You Want to Get Away From Lucy Caulkins/Balanced Literacy For Reading
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I am an ES teacher. Honestly, I know very little about Lucy Caulkins.


Do you teach a primary grade?


PP, not all schools use it.
Anonymous
Post 06/15/2021 13:47     Subject: If You Want to Get Away From Lucy Caulkins/Balanced Literacy For Reading
Anonymous wrote:I am an ES teacher. Honestly, I know very little about Lucy Caulkins.


Do you teach a primary grade?
Anonymous
Post 06/15/2021 13:46     Subject: If You Want to Get Away From Lucy Caulkins/Balanced Literacy For Reading
I am an ES teacher. Honestly, I know very little about Lucy Caulkins.
Anonymous
Post 06/15/2021 13:23     Subject: If You Want to Get Away From Lucy Caulkins/Balanced Literacy For Reading
Other states and organizations are already switching over to structured literacy wholesale. Why we can't just draft off of what they are doing and instead have to have meeting after meeting to get started I don't know.

https://www.tn.gov/education/reading-360.html
https://www.inclusionintexas.org/
https://www.ride.ri.gov/InstructionAssessment/Literacy/StructuredLiteracy.aspx
https://www.cde.state.co.us/coloradoliteracy

Much less all the high quality information they have already been given, including a 5 page road map from the Fairfax NAACP.
Anonymous
Post 06/15/2021 12:48     Subject: If You Want to Get Away From Lucy Caulkins/Balanced Literacy For Reading
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:the parents of dyslexic children have been screaming about this for years and have been ignored. Glad to see the NAACP is taking up the issue. FCPS should be sued over their lack of a reading program that actually works.


Amazing that they’re only taking this seriously now that the NAACP has spoken out. “Equity,” and all that. Meanwhile, my (white) kids had a terrible time with reading in FCPS.


Just remember: anyone who will work with you on a cause is your friend for that cause. If the NAACP gets all kids a good literacy curriculum, your white kid will learn to read too. Equity.


I 100% support the NAACP taking this up as an issue. I am on the "whatever it takes," bus and have spent $30K getting my child reading tutoring and help.
Anonymous
Post 06/15/2021 12:46     Subject: If You Want to Get Away From Lucy Caulkins/Balanced Literacy For Reading
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:the parents of dyslexic children have been screaming about this for years and have been ignored. Glad to see the NAACP is taking up the issue. FCPS should be sued over their lack of a reading program that actually works.


Amazing that they’re only taking this seriously now that the NAACP has spoken out. “Equity,” and all that. Meanwhile, my (white) kids had a terrible time with reading in FCPS.


Just remember: anyone who will work with you on a cause is your friend for that cause. If the NAACP gets all kids a good literacy curriculum, your white kid will learn to read too. Equity.
Anonymous
Post 06/15/2021 12:30     Subject: If You Want to Get Away From Lucy Caulkins/Balanced Literacy For Reading
Anonymous wrote:the parents of dyslexic children have been screaming about this for years and have been ignored. Glad to see the NAACP is taking up the issue. FCPS should be sued over their lack of a reading program that actually works.


Amazing that they’re only taking this seriously now that the NAACP has spoken out. “Equity,” and all that. Meanwhile, my (white) kids had a terrible time with reading in FCPS.
Anonymous
Post 06/15/2021 12:10     Subject: If You Want to Get Away From Lucy Caulkins/Balanced Literacy For Reading
Anonymous wrote:the parents of dyslexic children have been screaming about this for years and have been ignored. Glad to see the NAACP is taking up the issue. FCPS should be sued over their lack of a reading program that actually works.
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Haven't they been taken to task over "Just Words" multiple times now?
https://specialeducationaction.com/from-just-words-to-lexia-fcps-continued-its-one-size-fits-all-approach-to-addressing-dyslexia/
Anonymous
Post 06/15/2021 12:03     Subject: If You Want to Get Away From Lucy Caulkins/Balanced Literacy For Reading
the parents of dyslexic children have been screaming about this for years and have been ignored. Glad to see the NAACP is taking up the issue. FCPS should be sued over their lack of a reading program that actually works.
Anonymous
Post 06/15/2021 11:50     Subject: If You Want to Get Away From Lucy Caulkins/Balanced Literacy For Reading
Anonymous wrote:Time to email the school board about structured literacy/science of reading. They voted this morning to schedule a work session on it.

DCUM threads:
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/30/954307.page
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/752580.page
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/831458.page
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/921805.page

More info:
https://eduvaites.org/2019/10/12/how-kids-learn-to-read-primer-edition/

School board contact form:
https://fcpsinfo.fcps.edu/fcps-portal/sbportal_login.jsp


Thank you for posting.
Anonymous
Post 06/15/2021 11:20     Subject: If You Want to Get Away From Lucy Caulkins/Balanced Literacy For Reading
Time to email the school board about structured literacy/science of reading. They voted this morning to schedule a work session on it.

DCUM threads:
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/30/954307.page
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/752580.page
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/831458.page
https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/921805.page

More info:
https://eduvaites.org/2019/10/12/how-kids-learn-to-read-primer-edition/

School board contact form:
https://fcpsinfo.fcps.edu/fcps-portal/sbportal_login.jsp