Kindergarten sight word lists mcps3/21/2024 ![]() ![]() For too long terrible methods were being used in the classroom and really hard to try to get your kids to sound out the words when they are being taught at school to look at the picture and guess. IMO parental involvement should be in a supporting role- e.g., trained instructors should introduce the phonics skills and parents help their kids practice at home. There's a new RFP? They actually going to make a selection this time? The above said, I’m always amazed that parents don’t think they need to be heavily involved with teaching their kids to read. ![]() MCPS also has implemented Science of Reading across all ES, has Dibels for K-2, and has an RFP out for a new ES ELA curriculum. So my understanding is that current 3rd graders would have gotten RGR only last year. I was relieved when they actually started learning phonics in 1st grade. In kindergarten they were bringing home lists of sight words to memorize and being taught cueing, which I could tell was not really working for DC. I also have a second grader and it was a huge shift between kindergarten and 1st grade. RGR was implemented at most schools in the 2022/2023 school year. It's hard to gauge the programs without knowing what they are. I do wish the article had more information on these programs and contractors. This has been our experience with our second grader as well. Was there a change to the MCPS curriculum with more phonics starting with the kids who are now second graders? I don’t know where the current third graders fall. My second grader in MCPS has consistently been taught phonics in school since the beginning, definitely more than my current fourth grader received (I remember sight word books and “look at the pictures for clues” during the zoom school days). We're contemplating a move to MoCo for several reasons, including schools (in a bad HS triangle in DC) and this is giving me pause. We've been pleasantly surprised to see how well DCPS has course corrected regarding reading and our own experience has been phenomenal - all evidence-based, focus on phonics, no Lucy Caulkins nonsense at all. Anonymous wrote:We're in DCPS and I don't understand how this is STILL happening in MCPS. ![]()
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