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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My first grader came home the first or second week and told me about the story of the day. It was about a girl milking cows to earn money. I asked why she wanted to earn the money. Apparently it was so she could buy a beautiful dress that would make the other girls jealous and get a boy’s attention. 
I didn’t want to email the teacher to confirm as it seems like small potatoes the first month of school. But I will definitely find a way to ask about it at some point this year.[/quote]

Same impression, the works selected were insanely stupid. I don’t like this curriculum, and I have a 3rd grader.[/quote]

Kindergarten was doing nursery rhymes and fables first grade was doing folk tales and fables. Second grade was doing tall tales and then I think 3rd through 5th grade it's personal narratives.

My 4th grader was extremely excited by the reading material because the benchmark material has always been so dry and boring. She read a short stories by Beverly cleary and Peg Kehret and Esmeralda Santiago. [/quote]

The whole point of Core Knowledge is that as kids get older, their lack of familiarity with cultural background knowledge stymies their reading comprehension.  You may find the fables and folk tales to be "insanely stupid," but they are chosen because references to them appear in many other stories, and it helps to understand the allusion.[/quote]

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