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Anonymous wrote:I would fume to myself and bitch about it for days to my DH. Not sure I would say anything to the teacher.

I would mark up the worksheet with my remarks/comments . It's quite fun.

I am of the 'no good comes from fuming/suffering in silence'.

I am of the "you don't have to say everything that pops into your head" school.

Anonymous wrote:I would fume to myself and bitch about it for days to my DH. Not sure I would say anything to the teacher.

I would mark up the worksheet with my remarks/comments . It's quite fun.

I am of the 'no good comes from fuming/suffering in silence'.

Anonymous wrote:I would fume to myself and bitch about it for days to my DH. Not sure I would say anything to the teacher.

Ha! My fifth grader's teacher has provided two examples of what an assignment would look like, and I think the theory is sound, but she is a terrible writer. She encouraged us to help our kids with our writing assignments, and I wasn't going to (teacher assigns, kid does work, teacher grades, parent shuts up, that's my MO), but wow.

I have snarked about her so much that he is sending me alone to the parent-teacher conference. He doesn't trust me not to blurt anything, which is silly, because I have vented all my vents to him, that lucky man.

Anonymous wrote:Do all the kids in fifth grade read the same book, or are there different books by reading level?

My son (the one who is reading Tripods) told me the other readings groups are reading Out of my Mind (I think that's the title). It's about a child with CP. That is what the on grade level students are reading.

I would fume to myself and bitch about it for days to my DH. Not sure I would say anything to the teacher.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can't understand for the life of me why grammar is not being taught anymore - really taught well. These kids aren't learning how to write.

We have seen some terribly-written reading comprehension type worksheets come home. Typos, grammar errors, run on sentences. Really crappy stuff.

I just had to share this particularly-bad one. I mean, seriously?

http://www.teach-nology.com/worksheets/language_arts/causeeffect/caueff9.pdf

Wow. I'd love to respond to the teacher with an answer key detailing all the incorrect grammar and wording in the text. This is what our kids are being taught.

So if your child came home with that worksheet...would you do something? say something?

The students should spend time reading narratives written by REAL writers. There is plenty of great literature out there.

That worksheet is a huge example of how not to write. Wow.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can't understand for the life of me why grammar is not being taught anymore - really taught well. These kids aren't learning how to write.

We have seen some terribly-written reading comprehension type worksheets come home. Typos, grammar errors, run on sentences. Really crappy stuff.

I just had to share this particularly-bad one. I mean, seriously?

http://www.teach-nology.com/worksheets/language_arts/causeeffect/caueff9.pdf

Wow. I'd love to respond to the teacher with an answer key detailing all the incorrect grammar and wording in the text. This is what our kids are being taught.

It reads like it was written by someone who is ESOL or maybe put it through Gooogle translate.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can't understand for the life of me why grammar is not being taught anymore - really taught well. These kids aren't learning how to write.

We have seen some terribly-written reading comprehension type worksheets come home. Typos, grammar errors, run on sentences. Really crappy stuff.

I just had to share this particularly-bad one. I mean, seriously?

http://www.teach-nology.com/worksheets/language_arts/causeeffect/caueff9.pdf

Wow. I'd love to respond to the teacher with an answer key detailing all the incorrect grammar and wording in the text. This is what our kids are being taught.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Were they reading books in different reading groups and then discussing them? I would prefer that to worksheets a 10000 times over!

Maybe if there was a worksheet with questions to ask in the group and the kids were in small groups of 5 or 6 and had access to a teacher frequently. The only discussing I've seen is with the teacher and 30 other kids or discussions where kids don't talk to a teacher for days.

It seems suspect to me that all 30 kids happen to be at the exact same reading level.

Well either way, the teacher can't get to each small group very often if there are 30 kids, but this was an AAP class and all the kids were reading the same books throughout the year.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Were they reading books in different reading groups and then discussing them? I would prefer that to worksheets a 10000 times over!

Maybe if there was a worksheet with questions to ask in the group and the kids were in small groups of 5 or 6 and had access to a teacher frequently. The only discussing I've seen is with the teacher and 30 other kids or discussions where kids don't talk to a teacher for days.

It seems suspect to me that all 30 kids happen to be at the exact same reading level.

That worksheet is terrible.

Anonymous wrote:Were they reading books in different reading groups and then discussing them? I would prefer that to worksheets a 10000 times over!

Maybe if there was a worksheet with questions to ask in the group and the kids were in small groups of 5 or 6 and had access to a teacher frequently. The only discussing I've seen is with the teacher and 30 other kids or discussions where kids don't talk to a teacher for days.

Another vote for the Tripod series--it's excellent and fifth grade is the right time for it.

My kid is reading a book called "Ember," meeting in groups to discuss, and required to do reading each night and write three responses each week re: the outside reading. For writing, they are learning the structure of writing am adventure story narrative and writing original stories using Chrome books in their classrooms.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can't understand for the life of me why grammar is not being taught anymore - really taught well. These kids aren't learning how to write.

We have seen some terribly-written reading comprehension type worksheets come home. Typos, grammar errors, run on sentences. Really crappy stuff.

I just had to share this particularly-bad one. I mean, seriously?

http://www.teach-nology.com/worksheets/language_arts/causeeffect/caueff9.pdf