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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Dr Seuss poster here and I'm a little confused as to why this is so "inappropriate" - and perhaps I'm naive since my kid learned these things without an intentional teaching on our part, or memorization drills, so maybe you can give me more context -

but PK3 is made up of incoming 3 yos who turn 4 by the end of the year, right? Don't most of them already recognize the vast majority of the letters of the alphabet, even if they can't name each & every one? And recognizing numbers 1 through 10 is just a matter of recognition - if you've been reading number books for years, then you would be able to sight recognize most of them by age 4, right? I understand that reliably counting up to ten objects is more complicated and may take more time, but that's not what OP described.

I would expect that the vast majority of kids who've had circle time at preschool and/or story time with the parents on a daily basis from age 2 would be able to recognize letters & the first few numbers by the time they turn four. We're talking about kids who've been attending preschool. We're not talking about kids who've had no exposure to books.  [/quote]

I don't think its weird to make a note on a chart of whether the kid knows most letters. It depends what the school is doing with it. If they're actually making any type of pedagogical decisions based on the fact that a 4 year old can't tell upper case I from lower case l, then there's a problem.[/quote]

I'm guessing that in PK4, they'll have maybe two groups - the kids that are already reading a little bit and the kids who are still working on letter recognition. Maybe the note in the file will simply let next year's teacher know who needs to work on what. [/quote]

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