Holy Mesopotamia Batman: First Grade Common Core Social Studies vocabulary

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46. This does not seem to be correct, at least not in Ontario. I have included a link

that gives the curriculum for grades K-8 and, as several posters have discussed, the emphasis in first grade is on the community the child lives in: neighborhood, school, park, family and neighbor relationships, etc. IOW, children will be learning to read and write by dealing with social and geographical concepts they are already familiar with. This makes sense to me; learn the basics by reading about what you are already see about you every day. That way, the child can concentrate on the reading/writing process itself, and NOT on dealing with the absorption of unfamiliar, and often arbitrary, facts and words in addition to learning to read.

Those of us who were in school in the 50's and 60's had a very similar curriculum as Ontario. We read Dick and Jane books, too. Although Dick and Jane seems boring to adults, it's good reading practice for 6-yr-olds. Kids who don't get extensive practice with similar books end up reading like shit -- that's why you see so many people write 'convience' for 'convenience' and other such crap. They did not have enough graduated, age-appropriate reading and writing practice.




http://www.edu.gov.on.ca/eng/curriculum/elementary/grade1.html