Holy Mesopotamia Batman: First Grade Common Core Social Studies vocabulary

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62. I don't know where your wife teaches but most children do not know

how to read when they enter first grade. And when I say most children, I mean the majority. they should know letters and may know simple words they see around them, but most do not know how to read.


bully for your kids and bully for my son. I was reading Eliot and Yeats to him when he was a toddler. But that's not the advantage that most kids get, and it doesn't take into account the millions of children who aren't even remotely reading ready when they enter first grade.

My son also attended a very rural, poor school. Classroom sizes were tiny and all the kids got a lot of personal attention. I think that's a hugely important factor. I'm betting that the school you referenced also had a small teacher to student ratio. Many kids are packed into classrooms and it becomes as much about behavioral management as anything. I don't think you're taking into account the millions and millions of children in this country who are disadvantaged. Poverty is a big factor in whether or not kids will succeed.

You seem not to know the realities extant in this country regarding education; that, for instance, most states don't make kindergarten mandatory.



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Pat Wolfe, EdD, education consultant, former teacher, and author of Building the Reading Brain, says you can tell by kindergarten-age whether children are likely to have trouble with reading. "Can they hear rhyming words? Do they know that squiggles on a page stand for sounds when they talk?" These are key pre-reading skills that lay the foundation for reading.

Often children start reading in the first grade. During that school year, watch for these signs of reading difficulty:

confusing letters
connecting the wrong sounds with letters
skipping words, not remembering words, or frequently guessing at unknown words, rather than sounding them out

If your child is having trouble reading by the end of first grade, begin by talking with her teacher to find ways to resolve the problem.

Ages 4-5: learning pre-reading skills

Kids learn to:

substitute words in rhyming patterns
write some letters
pronounce simple words
develop vocabulary

Ages 6-10: learning to read

Kids learn to:

read simple books by mid-first grade and know about 100 common words
understand that letters represent sounds, which form words, by mid-first grade
enjoy a variety of types of stories and talk about characters, settings and events
remember the names and sounds of all letters and recognize upper- and lowercase by second grade
read independently and fluently by third grade
sound out unfamiliar words when reading


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