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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Did anyone actually read the draft? I am a teacher. I am a third grade teacher. It is saying that students must read at or above grade level at the end of third grade in order to be promoted to fourth grade. It needs to be demonstrated by an assessment. If they do not show they are at or above grade level then they repeat third grade. My students last year came in VERY low and they left VERY low. 60 percent of my students left third grade below grade level in Reading. How do we retain that many students? Are parents ok with retaining their child in third grade? Students at that age know and will talk about the students that are retained because they won’t be in their grade next year. I am not sure I like this plan. There will be so much pressure on a child to do well on a test in third grade in order to pass to the next grade.[/quote]

Yes.  Not reading successfully by the end of third grade means a child will struggle in the 4th and 5th grade and likely later because being reading becomes such a critical skill.  Whether for doing math word problems, reading the instructions for a science experiment, or reading a history text.  Certainly there needs to be nuance like what should happen for students with disability plans but otherwise students need to be reading on grade level by end of 3rd grade.  It does not need to be one test one day either.  Most schools take MAP 3 times a year, there is Dibels in K-2, the are normal teacher given test.  Also, students that age know who in their class can and can’t read well just by the types of lessons and books in small group and those who get pulled out for intervention lessons.[/quote]

That's nonsense! At our MCPS MS kids barely read a book a year. Being bad at reading is par for the course.[/quote]

Which only affirms that MS curriculum needs to be better implemented as students should be reading at least one book per quarter as noted by CO Secondary ELA team.  That doesn't change would should be happening in the primary grades with learning to read.[/quote]

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