I'm sorry but a child reaching freshmen year with their documentation that shows they are developmentally at a third grade level for reading and writing is unteachable. I know that may be a crazy opinion but I've never seen it this bad till this year.
Half a co-taught class developmentally 6 years behind where they should be. My co-teacher is losing their mind. I'm losing my mind. We're doing stories that are 3 pages long and they forget what was 1 paragraph before. They don't know how to operate a google document. Many have lost their homework sheets in their folder less book bags.
I don't even really know the other half of my class since I have no time to talk to the students who are demonstrating the basic ability to follow a 2 step direction since I'm busy putting the fire extinguisher to other half who seemingly have never been told to do anything their entire life.
I cannot scaffold things any lower without it literally being a third grade level class. One child literally had documentation showing they don't understand that stories begin and end.
Our biggest challenge of the year so far was writing a singular scaffolded paragraph with sentence starters based off a short story. Multiple paragraphs contained characters that simply did not exist in the story.
I'm losing my brain
I work with grad students and recently had some do an exercise where they had to do a short assessment with spell check turned off and no Internet connection. Only one performed at what I'd consider a reasonable undergraduate level. It's not looking great out there.
maybe this is the dyslexia speaking, but i really think that spelling and being able to comprehend a text are two skills of massively different importance. relying on spell check and/or phonetic estimations can serve you perfectly fine in almost all situations and changes nothing, whereas being functionally illiterate makes your life more hollow
I was pretty forgiving of the typos, the thing that bothered me was the lack of structure and coherence in the responses.
Hey! I not.....not coherence! I coherence yes!