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Anonymous wrote:http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/01/16/southern-education-foundation-children-poverty_n_6489970.html

Think these kids are all ready to read in K?

In many cases the poverty problem at home has a lot to do with a literacy problem at home as well. But, I guess you want to keep them in poverty, by not focusing on improving literacy?  [/quote]

Time would be much better spent developing vocabulary and enriching experiences.  signed First grade and K teacher who has a number of years of experience and advanced degrees.

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And, one of the best ways to do that is to provide them with the tools and skills for building vocabulary and to allow them to enrich themselves via building up reading skills, i.e. phonics, ability to dissect, decode and understand words.  Which is precisely what the CC standards aim to do, and all the more why they make sense.  The sooner kids start in with building blocks like phonics, the better.  This is not new, it's not rocket science, this is how reading has been taught for generations - "See Spot Run", "Dick and Jane", McGuffey Readers, et cetera.[/quote]

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