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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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.

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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.

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Common Core standards, or the way they are interpreted, do call for reading by the end of K. In DC, it's a Level C and I think it's the same in the 'burbs (this is Fountas and Pinnell). They do DIBELS three times per year and they pull kids that are below benchmark for special reading help. My kid was at a B by the end of K (in June) and was at a C at the beginning of First Grade so he was pulled for extra reading help. I couldn't understand how he could be behind when I started first grade knowing NOTHING about reading. And now, in first this year, he's fine, more or less (Level F - I think they want G). But the problem is that there is so much focus on Reading and Math that there is not enough time to focus on play and social emotional development. Kids rebel, ADHD diagnoses sky rocket. Wiggly boys running around in K used to be the norm. Now it is cause for an evaluation. That's the SPECIFIC example. [/quote]

What was your school's benchmark BEFORE Common Core, by which I mean immediately before, not 50 years before?

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