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Well, do you have to prompt him to ask or is he supposed to ask on his own? Does he know what the word "word" means? Does he know word boundaries yet? If he has to pick it out of a text, which the standard says, does he have to point to it and/or be able to read it? If he can ask based on the word being read to him, is he supposed to ask specifically about the word (word boundary again) or can he just say, "I don't understand" about a whole phrase that includes the word (I would guess not because the standard is asking about a word)?

And how will this be tested if the child does not read yet? The standard says that this is based on a text. What exactly is the standard looking for here? It's unclear to me. [/quote]

This.

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Good God.  I sure hope you are not actually an educator, because you certainly can't seem to see the forest for the trees.  Whether it's specifically identifying an unknown word in a sentence that they read themselves, or one that the teacher speaks to them is not relevant, specifically pointing at a word is not the relevant thing here, and is not the outcome that CC is striving for.  The point is to get kids thinking about sentence structure and context as a building block toward understanding language, giving them the toolset to be able to deconstruct language and understand its nuances, and any thinking person would know that the "unknown word" objective can be met in a number of ways without getting hung up on idiocies like "well do they have to point at the word 'shafloozle', should they underline it, or is it OK to say 'I don't know what 'shnafloozle' means.'"  This is a PERFECT example of the kind of pedantic myopia and utter and complete lack of understanding of the big picture of educational objectives and how they all fit together as building blocks that the anti-CC folks seem to be suffering from.[/quote]

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