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[quote=Anonymous]Your private school is doing what ALL schools do - teaching inference skills (". . . but being able to comprehend the subtleties of the character's feelings, the point of the story, understanding exaggerations, sarcasm etc.").

This is common practice in MCPS.  We teach inference skills EVERY year to our high school students by building upon skills from the previous years and increasing text complexity. no brainer there

For ELA, Common Core has several areas carried out from K-12.  K- 2  is a little different because these are the building years.  The framework includes reading literature, reading informational text, reading FOUNDATIONAL skills, writing, speaking & listening, language.

And the areas are not taught in isolation.  They are integrated.  You can't teach reading w/o hearing sounds.  You can't teach writing w/o learning the components of language (s-v agreement, for example).  And you certainly can't teach inferences w/o introducing vocabulary.

Part of the problem is ignorance.  Everyone is a master at education b/c EVERYONE has gone to school . . . well, most people in this area! So it's highly offensive to read "advice" from posters who don't even have the resourcefulness to examine CC standards first before expressing opinions.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Actually, now that you mention it, from the article "Kindergarten students are being forced to write words, sentences, and paragraphs before having a grasp of oral language...."

I don't get it. I thought oral language means speaking. Kindergarten students are being forced to write words, sentences, and paragraphs before they can talk? Before they understand how to talk? What does this mean?[/quote]

Having a grasp of oral language is different from speaking.  It means having true comprehension.  There are many children learning to read today who don't truly comprehend what they're reading and wouldn't be able to paraphrase to explain what they read.  At our private school, heavy emphasis is placed on comprehension- not only knowing the story, but being able to comprehend the subtleties of the character's feelings, the point of the story, understanding exaggerations, sarcasm etc.  I think this type of learning is missed when you're just testing kids to make sure they can read the words written.[/quote][/quote]

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