PARCC monitoring student's social media, wants schools to "punish" them
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Anonymous
Board books? Five-year-olds read board books? Board books are for babies who tear paper pages. And actually the Common Core standards do not require K students to read (board books or anything else), at least not as I understand reading. Here are the kindergarten standards related to reading:
An example of the emergent-reader text an on-grade-level kindergartener might read at the end of the year is Cat On The Mat by Brian Wildsmith. |
Anonymous
Interesting. I thought that Common Core was supposed to tell us what "grade level" is. Another fail on clarity. |
Anonymous
Since it's a kindergarten standard (that's the K in CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RF.K.3), I think it's reasonable to assume that the grade level the standard refers to is kindergarten. |
Anonymous
Cat chasing the tail. What is the standard for Kindergarten grade level phonics? What is a K kid supposed to know on grade level? Isn't that the purpose of the standard? |
Anonymous
Here you go.
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Anonymous
| So, K kids are required to read. Fail. |
Anonymous
Why do you think there's anything WRONG with this? Do you agree we need textbooks? Do you believe that you need content to teach? I dispute the premise that there's something wrong here. What is the conflict-of-interest? |
Anonymous
We're going around and around and around. No, kindergarten kids are not required to read. Rather, for a kindergarten kid to be on grade level, by the end of the year, the kid needs to be able to read an emergent-reader book, for example, The Cat On The Mat, which consists of: The cat sat on the mat (with a picture of a cat on a mat). The dog sat on the mat (with a picture of a cat and a dog on a mat). The goat sat on the mat (with a picture of a cat, a dog, and a goat on a mat). The cow sat on the mat (with a picture of a cat, a dog, a goat, and a cow on a mat). The elephant sat on the mat (with a picture of a cat, a dog, a goat, a cow, and an elephant on a mat). The cat sat on the mat (with a picture of a cat on a mat). Are all kindergarteners going to be able to do this by the end of kindergarten? No. Is it reasonable and developmentally appropriate to expect a grade-level kindergartener to be able to do this? I think so. If you think it's unreasonable and/or developmentally inappropriate, what do you base this on? |
Anonymous
Pearson people were involved in Common Core changes. They have made and will continue to make big bucks. |
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http://edexcellence.net/commentary/education-gadfly-daily/common-core-watch/2013/pearson-crosses-a-line.html
Another issue. Pearson tests included passages from Pearson texts. Now, there is an incentive to purchase Pearson books. |
Anonymous
Define "Pearson people", "involved", "changes", and "big bucks", please. Also, the purpose of educational publishing companies (including but not limited to Pearson) is to make money selling educational materials. Therefore, I fail to understand why people are shocked and horrified that educational publishing companies (including but not limited to Pearson) are making money selling educational materials. |
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For starters: People on the Common Core committees who wrote texts for Pearson. I call that a conflict. |
Anonymous
So there were people on the Common Core committees who had previously written texts for Pearson? Or there were people on the Common Core committees who subsequently wrote texts for Pearson? Or there were people on the Common Core committees who were also at the same time writing texts for Pearson? Could you please explain? Names (of people and texts) would be useful too, please. |