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[quote=Anonymous]Common Core standards for Kindergarten Foundational skills do not say that a Kindergarten student should be reading by the end of the Kindergarten year.

They do say that the Kindergarteners should be expected to have all of the components necessary to begin reading instruction in first grade; most importantly:

be able to say a sound for each consonant and short vowel
be able to take a word like "fat" (heard orally) and say each sound in it /f/.../a/.../t/   (except for words ending in /l/ /r/ or /x/)
be able to read a few high frequency sight words (the, a, and, etc)
be able to turn pages in a book the correct way and understand that the text represents words

http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/RF/K/

These are challenging and while not all students will completely master them, they will be much better prepared for 1st grade if they have even mastered half of them.

There are other reading standards that involve reading literature and informational text; they all say students will be able to respond to literature "with prompting and support" which could be as simple as repeating what the teacher has just said -- identify the author characters and setting of a story and so on.   This is not difficult.   The characters are frog and toad.   The setting is Toad's garden.   Etc.

http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/RL/K/[/quote]

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