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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Use words and phrases acquired through conversations, reading and being read to, and responding to texts. [/quote]

Use words and phrases acquired through ......................responding to texts.

This makes no sense.

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Use words and phrases acquired through

1. conversations
2. reading and being read to
3. responding to texts

Now that the newspapers have all fired all of the copy editors, is that what the copy editors are doing with their spare time? Fighting the Common Core standards with a red pencil in hand?[/quote]

As a copy editor, I find the "Standards" appallingly written. They are confusing, imprecise and wordy. Many are not truly measurable. They are written in godawful academic speak.  If they wanted standards that would actually advance the nation's children academically, they SHOULD have had a newspaper copy editor go through them first. 
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Well, I am a big fan of copy editors, I wish that the newspapers would hire you all back, and I am all in favor of good writing. But I find it hard to ibelieve that all of this fuss and uproar about the Common Core standards (developmentally inappropriate! follow the money! federal takeover! thalidomide! etc. etc.) is due to people's objections about writing style.

But I find it hard to imagine that there is all of this fuss about the Common Core standards because they ar[/quote]

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