Learning Progression Maps

How the ten reading anchor skills develop through literature, from retelling a story in kindergarten to analyzing authorial choices in high school.

The same reading anchor skills applied to nonfiction, from identifying a topic in kindergarten to evaluating arguments and evidence in high school.

The decoding ladder: print concepts, phonological awareness, phonics, and fluency, from kindergarten through fifth grade.

How the ten writing anchor skills build, from drawing and dictating opinions in kindergarten to sustained research and argument in high school.

Collaboration, presentation, and media skills from kindergarten conversations to formal high school presentations.

Grammar, conventions, and vocabulary skills as they build from kindergarten through high school.

Discipline-specific reading skills for history and social studies classes in middle and high school.

Discipline-specific reading skills for science and technical classes in middle and high school.

Discipline-specific writing skills for history, science, and technical classes in middle and high school.

From understanding addition as putting together to analyzing patterns and relationships, the arithmetic reasoning thread of elementary math.

The place value thread: counting, composing tens, multi-digit arithmetic, and decimals.

The fractions thread from understanding unit fractions to dividing fractions, and where it feeds ratios and the rational number system.

Measuring, telling time, representing data, area, and volume across elementary grades.

From naming shapes in kindergarten to congruence, similarity, and the Pythagorean theorem in eighth grade.

Ratio reasoning and proportionality, the bridge between elementary fractions and linear relationships in eighth grade.

Extending arithmetic to negative numbers, rational numbers, and irrationals in middle school.

From evaluating expressions to solving linear equations and systems, the on-ramp to high school algebra.

Statistical variability, distributions, sampling, and probability models across middle school.

Matter, forces, energy, and waves as they articulate across elementary, middle, and high school.

Organisms, ecosystems, heredity, and evolution as they articulate across grade bands.

Earth's place in the universe, Earth's systems, and human impacts across grade bands.

The engineering design process as it deepens from primary grades through high school.