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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Kindergarten has been becoming the new first grade for several years now, that isn't something new with Common Core.

Kindergartners aren't expected to be proficient readers by the end of kindergarten. For my state we use DRA-2 scores, and kindergarten level is level A-3 or A-4 (4 is technically beginning 1st grade).

Levels A-3 is sight words and using picture clues and range from 1-3 sentences per page (dependingon the level). ie: I see a cat. The cat runs. They aren't reading Shakespeare. [/quote]

Maybe this isn't asking too much for kids from high SES backgrounds.  It is for kids who enter K holding a book upside and turning the pages from back to front.  It's asking a lot to go from there to reading at those levels.  The higher poverty rate means more kids enter K from lower SES backgrounds.  I had a student last year who thought the book I handed him was for carrying drinks.  He said he ate at a restaurant and the "lady brings the drinks on this."  He meant the book.  He was serious.  That is why you get a lot of parents on DCUM writing that their kids are bored in kindergarten because they are reading before they get there or they have all of the prerequisite skills in place.  When you have kids in the same class or in different schools who don't even know what a book is or how to hold one, you have an uphill battle to get them reading at a certain level by the end of K.  The enter K already behind.  Throw in some serious social issues like poverty, single parent households, incarcerated parents, family/neighborhood drug and alcohol use, family/neighborhood violence.... and the hill gets steeper.[/quote]

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