Some Standards list examples some do not. We can’t make the Standards “walk on all fours.” Some Standards are stated generally others with specificity. However, we’ve got to give the Common Core authors some credit. Now, I do develop curriculum to specifically address the CCSS and I provide alignment documents in each of my ELA and reading intervention programs. The principal couldn’t buy my programs because I could not place a specific Common Core Standard on each and every activity, worksheet, story, etc. Because the assessments and resources are remedial-based, they encompass multiple grade-level Standards and the prerequisite skills articulated by the Common Core authors that are necessary to scaffold these Standards.” I answered, “Yes, my assessments and corresponding teaching resources are aligned to the Common Core State Standards as detailed in Appendix A. She asked me, “Are your assessments and teaching resources Standards-based? Are they specifically aligned to the Common Core State Standards?” She was asked by her reading intervention teachers to purchase my Teaching Reading Strategies and Sam and Friends Guided Reading Phonics Books BUNDLES. I recently lost a potential school-wide sale via my Pennington Publishing store because I answered a principal’s question honestly. Yet, as others have said, these are not detailed-out in the CCSS. As a reading specialist, I would certainly argue that knowing alphabetic order, as well as recognition, matching, and replication of upper and lower-case letters are critically important prerequisites for reading. Pennington Publishing: This raises an important point. Or is it one of those things like Patterning where it is still taught by some just not emphasized? I can’t find anything anywhere! Am I missing it? I know other teachers besides myself teach it, as the resources are selling. Teacher: I’m trying to add the Common Core Standards to my Alphabetical Order resources. To illustrate the problem, here’s a recent exchange from a preschool/transitional-K/kindergarten classroom teacher, who happens to sell her curricula on Teachers Pay Teachers. I choose to lose the sale in these cases, but I always try to explain why I won’t fudge the Standards citations. I could comply with their demands and fudge some of the Standards (as is the usual practice of most educational publishers, use the more generic Anchor Standards, or choose to lose the sale. This is especially true with necessary prerequisite skills and with remediation.Īs an educational publisher I am constantly placed into “no-win” situations in which some school districts are demanding the citation of the specific CCSS Standard on every activity, lesson, worksheet, etc. Last I checked, the 10 Common Core Standards were not written on two stone tablets!Īdditionally, when educators look at the CCSS appendices, is is clear that the authors trust administrators, teachers, and publishers to exercise some judgment regarding the implementation of the Standards. The point I’m getting at is that the CCSS authors intended the Standards to provide a common ground for grade-level teaching, not an all-inclusive, detailed instructional scope and sequence. ![]() However, many educators are taking the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in a wooden literal sense: not at all in the ways that the Common Core authors intended the Standards to be used. However, this is not quite the meaning of literally. Technically speaking, we should take what David wrote literally because literally means “as it is written.” An easier way to understand the word, literally, would be “as it is intended.” In other words, David intended to use a metaphor to describe the character of God that is how it is written. Obviously, David did not mean that God is literally a rock. After all metaphor is a grade 4 Standard: “Explain the meaning of simple similes and metaphors in context. .4.5.b. This “anyone” would also include children. Now, no one I know would interpret this verse as claiming that God is igneous, sedimentary, or metamorphic. In Psalm 62 Verse 2, David talks about God saying, “ Truly he is my rock.” (NIV)
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