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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Again, people - the Common Core standards don't demand reading to be mastered in K.  For example, the 1st Grade standard still has kids working on phonics and other basics.

http://www.corestandards.org/ELA-Literacy/RF/1/[/quote]

You are absolutely correct.   The Common Core standards state that by the end of K students should be able to read EMERGENT LEVEL texts -- that's not really "reading" at all.   These texts are very simple, very repetitive, and the text matches the pictures.  The standards do not say whether they should be able to read these texts "cold" or with teacher modeling and assistance.   I think it should be made clear that they will do this with modeling and assistance.

I do think a few of the K standards are either too ambitious, or not necessary.   The standard that says students will know a letter NAME for every capital AND lowercase letter.   I think that is unnecessary.   Students should be expected to learn a SOUND for every letter but not to produce the name.  That is a more efficient way to teach beginning reading.   When kids see the word "hop" they need to be ale to say /h/ .../o/.../p/ (the sounds of the letters).   Whether they know that the letter "h" is an /aitch/ is irrelevant.

They also should not be required to learn long and short sounds for vowels in K.   Just a short sound for each of the five vowels is more appropriate.

The requirement to participate in shared research projects is a sop, I think; a bone thrown to whole language enthusiasts who believe that students should engage in meaningful language use even in the early grades.   This requirement doesn't actually mean anything -- there is no definition of what it means to "participate" and how the research projects are "shared"  and there's no way to measure this.

I think the K standards could be streamlined and reduced a bit to help people everywhere calm the fuck down about these standards, which are for the most part fine.[/quote]

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