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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]

No.  It is a perfect example of spin.  K teachers have always pointed out words and talked about words.  That's what they do.  But, to have a standard like this that is poorly written, vague, etc. is just bogus.
 
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FOR CRYING OUT LOUD!  Make up your goddamned mind.  Now you are saying teachers already do this and that it has always made sense to work with word context in K.  Before you implied you had no idea what it was talking about, that it was "vague" and that you found it inconceivable to do try and follow.

Did you really not understand it, and now that you do, you are saving face?  Or, is it that you take the rest of us for idiots?  Or, are you just trolling?   It's bullshit either way.[/quote]

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