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[b]Again, K teachers working in the trenches say they absolutely expect kids to be reading at the end of K, [/b]and that they are flagged as failures as early as October if they fail to keep up.

Common Core has a strict pacing guide and these kids are rushing through things, not comprehending what they are doing.

Just look how many K threads there are on these boards, with miserable kids and parents because of the work levels. [/quote]

But kids were also expected to be reading at the end of kindergarten before the Common Core standards. And I'm guessing, but I don't know for sure, that kids in Virginia are expected to be reading at the end of kindergarten, and Virginia did not adopt the Common Core standards.[/quote]

I agree.   I'm in MD and we only adopted Common Core standards this year -- but for the past several years, kindergarten students were expected to be reading at a DRA level of "4" by the end of Kindergarten.  Now, that's basically reading an emergent level text.   "I see the flower.  I see the tree.  I see the ... whatever"   It's definitely NOT reading, as I would consider it.

Many were, some weren't.   Kids who start grade 1 reading lower than a DRA level of 8 are flagged for extra help (not "as failures" but as students who can use extra reading support).

Regardless, this changeover came way before Common Core standards, and even if everyone went back to the old MD standards, that expectation would still be there.[/quote]

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