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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]
 Common Core has shoved 6th grade concepts down to 1st grade.[/quote]

No, you are incorrect.

[quote]It has also shoved down reading levels, so all of a sudden 4th graders need to read at 8th grade levels -- overnight.[/quote]

Again, no.   False information.

Here is a list of SUGGESTED texts for grades K-5 to be considered "on grade level".

http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/standard-10-range-quality-complexity/texts-illustrating-the-complexity-quality-range-of-student-reading-k5

For grades 4 and 5  some suggested texts (not mandatory) are:  Black Beauty (1010) , Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (860), and Where the Mountain Meet the Moon (820).

Yes, these Lexile levels indicate higher reading proficiency expected by the end of 5th grade than was expected on the past.     Students are being required to read longer books, improve their reading stamina, and gain more exposure to higher level vocabulary words.

If your child's teacher is expecting this overnight, and if your child has a language based learning disability, but no IEP, I can definitely see how this change in expectations is hurting your child.   I think you should continue to fight for an IEP, because clearly your child is not going to succeed without specialized instruction.

But the answer isn't to lower standards for all.   Please provide extra help for those who need it.   But many children are perfectly capable, with assistance, of reading Black Beauty and other books at the 1000 Lexile, by the end of 5th grade.

Here's a teacher's website that shows some of the changes under Common Core for grades 4 and 5.  I think it is pretty informative.

http://www.mscoveney.com/common-core-state-standards.html

And if you were already a struggling reader, now you are 6 or 7 levels behind. You are not given a chance to read books at your level...instead, you are told to just read the "more rigorous" material over and over and over again, until you "take deep meaning" from it.
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