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[quote=Anonymous]Children should be at this level (automatic with code) by the end of third grade, with the exception of large, multisyllabic words of Latin and Greek derivation, which should be mastered by fourth grade.  (words like psychology are tough to decode until you have learned how -- but certainly shouldn't be memorized as sight words!)

[quote]What Accuracy and Fluency with the Code and Connected Text Looks Like:

Children who are automatic with the code:

Identify letter-sound correspondences accurately and quickly.
Identify familiar spelling patterns to increase decoding efficiency.
Apply maximum resources to the difficult task of blending together isolated phonemes to make words.
Apply knowledge of the alphabetic code to identify words in isolation and connected text fluently.[/quote]

http://reading.uoregon.edu/big_ideas/flu/flu_what.php

The above skills are VITAL and no elementary school teacher should expect to teach reading without teaching children to have a solid grasp of the basic skills above.

If one's objection to Common Core is that one doesn't believe that all children should master the above skills (or are capable of doing so... except for the MOST severely learning disabled) than that is good to know.  Again, there's really not much more point in arguing with you if that is the case.

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