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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]You are nitpicking here. An adult can easily understand what is expected for this standard. [/quote]

And, the developers couldn't even go to the trouble of proofreading these "standards."  Sorry, if they couldn't proofread them, what other steps did they skip?
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I'm new to MCPS.  I only know 2.0.  So, educate me.  Were the MCPS standards before 2.0 written with no ambiguity, no grammatical errors?  Do you have a link to those standards?[/quote]

It's hard to find the old Maryland Voluntary Curriculum Standards.

I found a link to the old language arts curriculum.   Here are the former Kindergarten standards in the state of MD :

http://www1.pgcps.org/uploadedFiles/Offices/Academics/Reading_English_Language_Arts/Kindergarten_RELA_VSC_(Regular_CFPG).pdf

Listening:

• Follow a set of two-or-three step directions.
• Listen to, read, and discuss nursery rhymes.
• Comprehend and analyze what is heard.
• Speaks clearly enough to be heard and understood in a variety of setting.
• Listen to and discuss variety of texts representing diverse cultures, authorship, perspective, and ethnicities.
• Name picture of common concepts.
• Acquire new vocabulary through listening to and reading a variety of text on a daily basis.
• Read a minimum of 25 books per quarter, both literary and informational.

Speaking:
• Understand that speech can be written or read
• Respond to questions and verify answers using illustration/text.
• Speaks clearly enough to be heard and understood in a variety of setting.
• Read and recognize sight words.
• Use knowledge of end punctuation to signal expression in reading.
• Recite nursery rhyme, poemsn and finger plays with expression.
• Read orally from familiar texts at an appropriate rate.
• Retell story using text as support.
• Respond to text by drawing, speaking, dramatizing, or writing.
• Name picture of common concepts.

Concepts About Print:
• Track print from left to right and top to bottom.
• Make a return sweep to the next line of the text.
• Match oral words to printed words.
• Differentiate numerals, letters, and words

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