When Betsy read the story, did she struggle sounding out the words? Was the vocabulary easy for her? Could she tell her reading group what the story was about? Could she write a paragraph about the premise?
Those basic comprehension and literacy skills for first through eighth graders are at the heart of the five-year-old Common Core curriculum.
“Common Core is a deeper level. We’re talking about instead of a plot summary we’re doing an analysis of the…
