Why is Common Core’s Phonics Missing in Reading and Dyslexia Discussions?
Those who claim teachers and their education schools have focused on the wrong way to teach reading never mention Common Core State Standards. But, since 2010, Common Core has figured prominently in the reading curriculum teachers have been forced to teach.
If students are showing increased reading problems, shouldn’t the English Language Arts standards be examined, including the Reading: Foundational Skills which focuses on phonics?
If Common Core was improving learning, wouldn’t those phonics standards be working for all children? Perhaps Common Core is the problem.
In 2015, in The Washington Post: “Requiring kindergartners to read as Common Core does – may harm some,” Nancy Carlsson-Paige, Geralyn Bywater McLaughlin and Joan Wolfsheimer Almon, well-respected experts in the area of early childhood learning, described how Common Core’s standards involved unreasonable expectations for kindergartners.
They stated, many children are not developmentally ready to read in kindergarten, yet the Common Core State Standards require them to do just that.
It’s important to note that phonics hasn’t been missing from the curriculum like we CONTINUE READING: Why is Common Core’s Phonics Missing in Reading and Dyslexia Discussions?
