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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]RI.3.10 By the end of the year, read and comprehend informational texts, including history/social studies, science, and technical texts, at the high end of the grades 2-3 text complexity band independently and proficiently.

This standard is pretty silly. [b]It assumes that every student comes to a class at the same level. [/b] Real teachers who work in real schools know that this is very rare.  It's a pointless standard.  [/quote]

No, it doesn't. All it says is that you have to be able to do this by the end of the year to meet the standard. If you can't do it, then you don't meet the standard. I find it very difficult to argue with a standard that basically says that by the end of third grade, third-graders should be able to read informational texts written at the third-grade level.[/quote]

[b]So if a student comes to a teacher reading 2 or 3 years below grade level, I am supposed to meet that standard by March or April? [/b] I have had one or two students, language learners, who were able to jump several reading levels in one year, but it's very rare.  It's reasonable to expect growth, but it's not reasonable to think all students will read at the same level by the end (or middle) of the year.

Therefore, it's a meaningless standard.[/quote]

No, you aren't. And nobody should hold you responsible if the student doesn't meet the standard. That doesn't make the standard meaningless, though. It just means that your performance evaluation shouldn't be based on the student meeting the standard.[/quote]

So what is the rationale for this standard?[/quote]

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