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[quote=Anonymous][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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Thanks PP.  This is very interesting.  I would say 2.0 standards are definitely more rigorous than the pre 2.0 ones, at least for K.

I would think that kids with speech issues would have problems with any of the speech standards above.  Why is this an issue under 2.0? Or is the problem that the standards now are too difficult?[/quote]

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