I just thought about it. Those numbered thingies can’t be the standards. The standards are the five C’s. I had to take a nap to figure that out. I guess we can call the numbered thingies little impressive sounding things that describe the standards.
OK – I’m learning! Communication is the overarching standard that bring the other four to life. We’ve talked about that a lot here over the past few years. The little numbered thingies are just little numbered thingies that clearly a bunch of really smart people wrote, maybe to sound smart and confuse regular teachers in buildings, like us.
This new realization makes it easy for me to grade based on the standards and not feel crappy about having to fudge things using those little numbered thingies to make it look like I am a real teacher who knows all the jargon and teaches to a bewildering away of little numbered thingies.
All I have to do now is take the few numbered thingies that have to do with understanding messages and reading texts and translating simple texts into L1 and writing simple passages – that is all I ask my students to do; those four things – and put them in my SBGR reporting place in the computer.
So false alarm. I am good to go. I’m following the standards that I want to:
1.2.1.Comprehend main ideas in narratives.
1.2.3. Comprehend brief written narratives.
If I don’t use any of the other standard <em>descriptors</em> so what? I am following the standards that I honestly do. So those entire two posts that preceded this one are based on a false idea that the numbered thingies are the standards. I solved my problem all by myself!