When my district first started teaching Common Core Standards 4 years ago, I was a little surprised at some of the changes from our Tennessee State Standards. One of which was the teaching of Nouns, Verbs, and Adjectives. I was thinking about how some of my kids struggle to learn letters and sounds, much less language arts skills that I'm pretty sure I learned in 2nd grade. And honestly, for the first couple of years, I don't know how good of job I did at teaching my kindergartners these…
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