\DOC\WEB\98\06\readgoal.txt First graders should end the year reading primer level material at about 60 words per minute with over 95% accuracy. Date sent: Wed, 12 Aug 1998 15:13:27 -0700 Send reply to: core-net@TUCC6.TUCC.Trinity.Edu From: Don Crawford To: Multiple recipients of list Subject: Re: How School Systems Exclude Parents and Punish Effective Teachers Originally to: core-net@TUCC6.TUCC.Trinity.Edu At 10:55 PM -0400 8/11/98, Stallings wrote: >I hope some on this net remember when the >FIRST grade was universally accepted as >the time to learn to read--and there was no >kindergarten. Of course, this was also when >a curriculum very similar to CK was all that >was offered. Drill and kill used to be seen as >practice makes perfect. Does the CK sequence not make clear a standard that first graders should be able to read by the end of the year? This is an absolute must and can best be measured by oral reading fluency. First graders should end the year reading primer level material at about 60 words per minute with over 95% accuracy. Connie Juel did an amazing longitudinal study in the late 80s that showed that a student who was a poor reader at the end of first grade had a .88 probability of being a poor reader at the end of 4th grade. And you all know how little reading remediation there is after 5th grade. She also found that the poor 4th grade readers were stuck at about 2nd grade level skills. So the message is, if you don't "get it" in first grade you are out of luck! ****************** Don Crawford, Ph.D. donc@wce.wwu.edu (360) 650-7443 Fax: 650-7516 Western Washington Univ. Spec. Ed.-Mailstop 9090 Bellingham, WA 98225-9090 I am responsible for the content of this message, which does not in any way reflect the position or policy of Western Washington University. ****************** The essence of individualism derives not from accumulating idiosyncratic affectations, but from stripping those affectations away.