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Going Deep into Common Core Kindergarten ELA/Literacy Standards

Responding to J. Richard Gentry’s defense of six specific standards.
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I’ll Be Happy to Tell You What I Don’t Like

About specific Common Core ELA/Literacy Standards
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Signal and Noise in the Common Core ELA/Literacy Standards

Retelling and recounting.
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What Happened to the American Diploma Project? A Common Core Mystery

Read like a detective.
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Common Core ELA “Shifts” Don’t Depend on Common Core Standards

Believe it or not, your old standards permitted students to read non-fiction too.
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Repetition and Clarity in Standards

Do “X” in third grade; keep doing “X” in fourth grade. What’s confusing about that?
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Why Are the Common Core Standards Interested in 18th Century American Literature?

Get ready for the Philip Freneau revival.
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Who Wrote Common Core State Standards Initiative Standards-Setting Criteria?

If it is a secret, it is a conspiracy.
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The Anchor Standards

The root of many problems in the Common Core Standards
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English-language Arts Work Group for College and Career Readiness Standards (the Anchor Standards)

Once these people wrote the anchor standards, everything else was just fine tuning.
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Which Standards Am I Talking About?

ELA/Literacy, mostly reading, mostly high school.
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About My Stories

Confessions of a Common Core obsessive.
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