Comments on: Frameworks Include Pre-K and Common Core Standards

By: Irene Sege

Irene Sege — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 20:50:53 +0000

Other readers may be able to steer you to additional resources, but here is a chart that outlines developmental milestones and literacy activities: One-Page Diagram: A Developing Reader's Journey. It comes from "Turning the Page: Refocusing Massachusetts for Reading Success."

By: Noelle Apostol

Noelle Apostol — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 19:04:41 +0000

I am looking for a chart that might have in one column the characteristics of each developmental stage in literacy and in a corresponding column, teaching practices to support each stage. Does anyone have something like this?

Thank you,
Noelle Apostol

By: Stan Schwartz

Stan Schwartz — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 20:36:03 +0000

It is interesting that finding the actual standards at the Core Standards website takes a bit of searching. Perhaps I focus too much on one particular standard in Math for Kindergarten:

* 1. Count to 100 by ones and by tens.
* 2. Count forward beginning from a given number within the known sequence (instead of having to begin at 1).
* 3. Write numbers from 0 to 20. Represent a number of objects with a written numeral 0-20 (with 0 representing a count of no objects).

As the Early Childhood community, by definition 0 to 8 years old, it seems that there is a disconnect about how to define “developmentally appropriate” between the K-12 world and the Pre-K world. I honestly worry about kindergarten children meeting this standard in a developmentally appropriate manner.