Anonymous wrote:I've read on here that some schools won't let kids start higher than grade level.

That's not true. The school can't control that because the program starts the students where they tested. My older kids (using Powering Up) both tested at the highest level of Word Study, so they finished it within a few weeks. One child tested at the highest level of Reading Comprehension, and the other child tested at the third highest level of Reading Comprehension, so they were both finished with that section within a few months. The third section of Grammar has taken them both a little longer.

My younger child is using the lower program called Core, but she's definitely working above grade level. She will probably finish Core by the end of the year.

bro how can your son do that what's his name

I wish people can tell me the answers to level 21 lexia because its really hard well its not but you have to read the books

My child finished Lexia in first grade.

My son started second grade new to fcps and reading a couple grades ahead. He had to start at the first level for second grade (10) and when he finished the last second grade level (12) in March, was told to work on something else during lexia time. No working ahead.

The PP talking about being expected to teach mini-lessons in FCPS is spot-on. The state objectives for teaching parts of speech and punctuation etc. are clearly outlined, but there aren’t materials. The bigger issue that I have seen in the last 12-15 years is that every teacher in a grade level in elementary is expected to teach the same lessons. The teachers with the most “power” in the grade level make those decisions. So when I as a veteran teacher but new to a school said at a planning meeting with my grade level that we needed to start parts of speech, and the other teachers said it wasn’t necessary, I was overruled. The brand-new teacher didn’t know any better, and I ended up teaching my own lessons on the topic, knowing I’d get dinged if admin found out I was doing something different. I’ll never forget the year the grade level teachers told me we could choose which health unit we wanted as a group for the year and the others could be skipped. They honestly thought that.

Parents need to clearly ask principals about direct instruction for the language arts objectives that are listed on the VDOE website but aren’t explicitly taught. Principals don’t like negative parent feedback.

hvgvuybcrt

[mastodon]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Since FCPS doesn’t teach grammar, at least Lexia introduced some in elementary school. It introduced contractions and a few parts of speech. Not great, but better than getting nothing.

I am an English teacher. My entire department, at all grade levels, teaches grammar.

No grammar is taught at our elementary school at all. Vocabulary, yes, but no grammar. Even at 6th grade, the students do not know what a subject and a predicate are.

Anonymous wrote:Reviving this thread because my kids said there's a renewed push for them to use Lexia now that 3rd quarter has started. They both hate it, and having seen how slowly the narrators talk and the animations play, I see why. Lots of time staring at the screen and easy to fat-finger a wrong answer once frustrated and bored. They could answer 10 times the grammar/vocab/comprehension questions if it were on paper and they didn't have to listen to the excruciatingly slow narration.

Teachers, are you getting pressured by your admin to use this program? Admin, are you getting pressured by Gatehouse?

Yes, this happens at some schools.