Core Standards Writing Samples

[Capt_Uhura]

Hello Hive,

 

I saw this link http://www.corestandards.org/assets/Appendix_C.pdf posted at another board. It is a link to writing samples from the Core Standards website. I think these are the best of the best, what do you think? I haven't find them on the Core Website to get more info on them.

 

Capt_Uhura

[skueppers]

The rest of the document those come from can be seen here:

 

http://corestandards.org/the-standards

 

It says that Appendix C shows writing that would be at least adequate for the associated grade; they seem to be trying to show the expected progression over time.

 

I would certainly expect my child's writing by the end of the school year to be in the same neighborhood as that shown for Kindergartners in the samples. I have no opinion about the later grades, since what I have right now is a Kindergartner! :) We're going by the public school cutoff around here, so she's on the high side of age for her grade; she'll be 6 in early November.

[Capt_Uhura]

WOW! Here many of the Kers can't even read let alone write like these samples. When my DS was in K, at the end of November, over a fourth of the class was just turning FIVE.

[skueppers]

I think the age of school entry makes so much difference in these things. Here, the kids must be fully 5 by September 1 in order to get into PS Kindergarten. It's possible to apply for an exception if the child will be 5 by October 15, but you have to show that the child is globally advanced. Most people don't apply for the exception, and have their child enter the following year. Some kids with summer birthdays are also held back.

 

Kindergarten here is highly academic -- kids are expected to be reading books like Frog and Toad by the end of the year, and many are reading chapter books. They memorize at least 100 commonly-used sight words during the course of the year.

 

Kids are expected to be able to spell commonly-used words, and write in complete sentences by the end of the year.

 

In many ways, Kindergarten around here is the new First Grade. :)

[Capt_Uhura]

You certainly are not kidding about K being the new 1st grade! I have a friend whose cut off is end of July. Her DS's class was a full half year ahead of my son's class where kids were turning 5 beginning of December. Their curriculum reflected it seeming to be 1/2-1 year ahead and w/ no one sending kids w/ later than a June bday. I wonder if that carries through all the way through school. If all these kids are taking the SAT for example at the same time, the districts with the late cutoffs are at a disadvantage.