Anonymous wrote:Nova Catholic school - all grades starting in K have a summer reading book to finish. That book is the basis of the first language arts and reading discussions, projects, grades of the year (depends on the grade level what they do with it).

My kids had class “novel study” during the school year starting in 2nd grade. I put that in quotes because the depth of what they had to do with the books varied by grade level.

Similar in our Catholic school, though the summer reading was sometimes “pick from this list”, so they didn’t necessarily all do the same book. I know for sure in fourth grade they were reading a novel together as a class and completing structured work around that.

FCPS. My kid started having “book club” in 3rd grade. Students choose from a list of novels and are grouped together by chosen novel. Their small groups discuss the book, answer comprehension and thematic questions, complete writing exercises and often present their books to the entire class.

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Anonymous wrote:They don’t read books anymore. It’s all dittos and apps.

Sadly, this. In middle school, they had whole class books, but the teacher would just play it on audio in class.

It’s because so many of the kids can’t read but they keep promoting them to the next grade anyway.

Many kids have dyslexia and aren’t being taught adequately (at all). They would be fully able to read a novel with their class if they had proper instruction in k-3rd grade.

So the kids who can read should not be assigned books in school because of this?

They should bring back reading groups and stop holding everyone back because some can't keep up.

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Anonymous wrote:They don’t read books anymore. It’s all dittos and apps.

Sadly, this. In middle school, they had whole class books, but the teacher would just play it on audio in class.

It’s because so many of the kids can’t read but they keep promoting them to the next grade anyway.

Many kids have dyslexia and aren’t being taught adequately (at all). They would be fully able to read a novel with their class if they had proper instruction in k-3rd grade.

So the kids who can read should not be assigned books in school because of this?

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Anonymous wrote:They don’t read books anymore. It’s all dittos and apps.

Sadly, this. In middle school, they had whole class books, but the teacher would just play it on audio in class.

DS is in 7th in Honors ELA and they just finished the first all class book, which was done through a combo of audiobook and read aloud by the teacher. I was shocked.

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Anonymous wrote:They don’t read books anymore. It’s all dittos and apps.

Sadly, this. In middle school, they had whole class books, but the teacher would just play it on audio in class.

It’s because so many of the kids can’t read but they keep promoting them to the next grade anyway.

Many kids have dyslexia and aren’t being taught adequately (at all). They would be fully able to read a novel with their class if they had proper instruction in k-3rd grade.

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Anonymous wrote:Also in FCPS- my kids still have been reading novels (even with benchmark) so I think this is dependent on the school. This is 4th/6th.

What novels have they read in 4th grade so far?

My kids read several novels in FCPS AAP, but it was never the whole class reads one book. The teacher would select maybe 8 books or so from a particular genre, send a link to book summaries and book trailers, kids read/watch with parents, parents have to approve all choices, and then kids rank the books they want to read. The kids then get sorted into "Book Club" groups based on their first or second choice usually, and have regular discussions as well as writing assignments relating to the books. This was 4th through 6th if I recall correctly, and it was several books each year. I was very, very happy with the language arts instruction at our AAP center. (I was happy with all of it, actually, not just language arts).

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Anonymous wrote:They don’t read books anymore. It’s all dittos and apps.

Sadly, this. In middle school, they had whole class books, but the teacher would just play it on audio in class.

It’s because so many of the kids can’t read but they keep promoting them to the next grade anyway.

My oldest is in 8th in FCPS and so far the answer is never. English/language arts has been so terrible in all grades.

Anonymous wrote:They don’t read books anymore. It’s all dittos and apps.

Sadly, this. In middle school, they had whole class books, but the teacher would just play it on audio in class.

My kid in one of the “lighter” SN privates did grade-level novel study starting in 5th. In 6th, they’re on their 3rd grade-level novel study of the year. They also are expected to read 2-3 books for school over the summer.

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Anonymous wrote:They don’t read books anymore. It’s all dittos and apps.

Dittos?

NP. Worksheets.

Anonymous wrote:They don’t read books anymore. It’s all dittos and apps.

Dittos?

They don’t read books anymore. It’s all dittos and apps.

3rd grade at Catholic school. I can't remember all the books but my now 4th grader has read with his class The Lemonade War, Little House on the Prairie, Because of Winn Dixie, and Mr Lemoncellos Library amongst others. They read together in class then answer questions for homework.