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[quote=Anonymous]The hardest standards, I think, are the ones that say by the end of the year K students should be able to know a sound for each letter.

Do you think that is too hard, for your average kindergarten student, by the end of the year?  Assume perhaps that they can make a few mistakes... and that this won't be tested on a bubble in standardized test but is a goal for the end of K.   Not that they are sounding out words, yet, but that they at least have a basic understanding that "t" says /t/ and "m" says /m/... do you think most kindergarten kids should be able to do that?

I teach low  SES ESOL kids,and out of all my 10 K kids, 8 know their basic letter sounds (including some short vowels but not all).  Of those 8, 2 of them are letter perfect and can sound out simple CVC words; and 6 of them have the basic idea and most but not all sounds.  (w/y confusion etc.)

Of the 2 who really don't have all their sounds, they have about 1/4 of them.   One child is being held back a year and will repeat K again (most likely), and one is being referred for LD evaluation.

So if my ESOL kids can mostly master this standard, I think it should be pretty appropriate for English speaking kids as well.    But what do you think?[/quote]

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