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Common Core Standards Essay

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Let’s Learn More About These Standards This essay will discuss Common Core State Standards and North Carolina Essential Standards. Both standards were designed to assist children in many areas of development. Although these standards are used in K-12 grades, I will only focus on kindergarten. This paper will breakdown kindergarten components that are set in place for both standards. Helpful tools will be provided to assist in providing more information regarding the standards involving North Carolina Public school. Common Core and North Carolina Essentials standards are important tools and are used as a guide by kindergarten teachers; however, these standards should be introduced in preschool years. The state of North Carolina adopted the …show more content…

A kindergartener is required to use a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose an opinion; therefore, they should be able to tell certain information about the book and give an opinion. When it comes to the Speaking and Listening Standards (Sl.K) a child should know how to participate in conversations, ask question even if it’s for help or information. A child should also be able to speak, describe familiar things, express themselves and their thoughts. By the end of kindergarten, a child should have learned the concepts of nouns, and verbs. Children will also be required to write sentences, using standard English, this will include capitalization, punctuation, and …show more content…

The NCES also assist educators in providing an exceptional learning environment. NCES focus on Arts Education, Healthy Living, Technology, Science, and Social Studies. The Arts Education includes music, dance, theater, and visual arts. In kindergarten a child will be introduced to health and physical education. Both standards CCSS and NCES are used in North Carolina’s public schools and the standards are only considered as expectations before transitioning out of kindergarten. Furthermore, should preschoolers be taught certain standards to prepare them for

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