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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]CCSS.ELA-Literacy.RL.K.4 
 Ask and answer questions about unknown words in a text. 
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It is vague and imprecise and does not meet the criteria set up by the Common Core group.  Go read it.[/quote]

If you think that standard is totally vague, incomprehensible and not implementable then clearly you are not an educator, and certainly not an English teacher.

The standard is about context clues and getting kids thinking about what questions they might ask to help them start understanding what the new, unknown word is.

For example, asking themselves if the unknown word is talking about a thing, a person (nouns), something that's happening or another type of action (verbs), or if it is describing something (adjectives) et cetera.  All of those are appropriate K skills.  It's about getting them thinking about how sometimes there's more than one word for things or concepts they already know (synonyms) which can help to understand new words.  It's about getting kids thinking about a variety of clues based on the rest of the sentence and context, whether the word might be something good or bad, something funny, something scary - based on what's going on with the rest of the sentence.

And, there are lots of ways that it can be measured, like having kids replace the unknown word with one that they think might make sense based on context.

"The [i]feline[/i] meowed and purred."

Replace the unknown word, "feline" with another word that might make sense:

a.) red
b.) run
c.) cat
d.) moon

This is all very typical and doable K teaching.[/quote]

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