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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]http://www.chicagonow.com/little-kids-big-city/2011/08/is-your-child-ready-for-first-grade-1979-edition/

Great list about what incoming 1st graders USED to be expected to do....much less academic, more more competent at life:

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"This book was first published in 1979, so I have to say it comes across as quite dated at times. So let's take a look, shall we? The idea here is that about 10 yesses out of this list of 12 would indicate readiness for 1st grade.

1. Will your child be six years, six months or older when he begins first grade and starts receiving reading instruction?

2. Does your child have two to five permanent or second teeth?
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3. Can you child tell, in such a way that his speech is understood by a school crossing guard or policeman, where he lives?[/b]

4. Can he draw and color and stay within the lines of the design being colored?

5. Can he stand on one foot with eyes closed for five to ten seconds?

6. Can he ride a small two-wheeled bicycle without helper wheels?

7. Can he tell left hand from right?
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8. Can he travel alone in the neighborhood (four to eight blocks) to store, school, playground, or to a friend's home?[/b]

9. Can he be away from you all day without being upset?

10. Can he repeat an eight- to ten-word sentence, if you say it once, as "The boy ran all the way home from the store"?

1[b]1. Can he count eight to ten pennies correctly?

12. Does your child try to write or copy letters or numbers?[/b]

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Heavens to Betsy.  And Common Core is so massively developmentally inappropriate and light years ahead of that.   Let's see...

Count 8 to 10 pennies vs. Count to 20 in Common Core.  Ummm.... nope, not really a leap

Try to write or copy letters or numbers vs. print many upper and lower case letters in Common Core.  Umm....  nope, not really a leap there either

The stuff in Common Core is mostly what was expected of kids growing up in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Total leap. But you understand little about childhood development, which you make clearer with every post.

The difference between 10 and 20 is huge. And they want kids reading out of Kindergarten.

The requirements have been shoved down more than a year -- anyone with half a brain can see that. [/quote]

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