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Common Core wants many students to learn in a way they are not wired to learn. Two YEARS in a classroom, and these children are not understanding the concepts. Common Core is flawed. [/quote]

PP, I really don't know what else there is to say, expect that I have been teaching using Common Core Objectives for the past year and a half, and I find that the standards are very sensible.

For example, here are some standards I had students working with today.  They are just in the domains of "Reading Foundational Skills" and "Reading Informational Text" because that happened to be what we were working with today.

[quote]Kindergarten   RF3.a Demonstrate basic knowledge of one-to-one letter- sound correspondence by producing the primary or many of the most frequent sound for each consonant.[/quote]

http://mdk12.org/share/frameworks/CCSC_Reading_Foundational_Skills_grk-2.pdf

My kindergarten ESOL students worked with learning the different sounds that various consonants and short vowels represented.  
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[quote]Grade 2 RF.3.a Distinguish long and short vowels when reading regularly spelled one syllable words[/quote]

http://mdk12.org/share/frameworks/CCSC_Reading_Foundational_Skills_grk-2.pdf

My second grade ESOL students read phonetically regular text including words with the vowel sound /o/ as in "open" spelled oa, o_e, ough, and ow or just plain o.   For example, coat, home, though, grow and so.

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Grade 3 RI 2:  Determine the main idea of a text, recount the key details and explain how they support the main idea.[/quote]

http://mdk12.org/share/frameworks/CCSC_Reading_Informational_Text_gr3-5.pdf
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My third grade ESOL students read a grade level text about animals in the ocean.   They figured out the main idea of each chapter, and were able to locate the key details that supported the main idea.

I'm really not sure in what way these standards ask children to learn, in a way they are not wired to learn.   But what can I say?   I have only been teaching about 12 years.   Maybe there is something I am missing?

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