Learning Progression Maps
Standards are not a checklist. Each one builds on earlier skills and feeds later ones. These maps draw those connections, grade by grade, so you can see where a struggling student needs backfill and where a skill goes next.
Every connection was verified against the official framework documents and published curriculum progressions before it was drawn. The same graph powers the Before This Standard and What This Unlocks sections on our standard pages. How the verification works.
Common Core ELA
Common Core State Standards for English Language Arts
- Reading: Literature
Grades K to 12
How the ten reading anchor skills develop through literature, from retelling a story in kindergarten to analyzing authorial choices in high school.
- Reading: Informational Text
Grades K to 12
The same reading anchor skills applied to nonfiction, from identifying a topic in kindergarten to evaluating arguments and evidence in high school.
- Reading: Foundational Skills
Grades K to 5
The decoding ladder: print concepts, phonological awareness, phonics, and fluency, from kindergarten through fifth grade.
- Writing
Grades K to 12
How the ten writing anchor skills build, from drawing and dictating opinions in kindergarten to sustained research and argument in high school.
- Speaking & Listening
Grades K to 12
Collaboration, presentation, and media skills from kindergarten conversations to formal high school presentations.
- Language
Grades K to 12
Grammar, conventions, and vocabulary skills as they build from kindergarten through high school.
- Reading: History/Social Studies
Grades 6 to 12
Discipline-specific reading skills for history and social studies classes in middle and high school.
- Reading: Science & Technical Subjects
Grades 6 to 12
Discipline-specific reading skills for science and technical classes in middle and high school.
- Writing: History, Science & Technical Subjects
Grades 6 to 12
Discipline-specific writing skills for history, science, and technical classes in middle and high school.
Common Core Math
Common Core State Standards for Mathematics
- Operations & Algebraic Thinking
Grades K to 5
From understanding addition as putting together to analyzing patterns and relationships, the arithmetic reasoning thread of elementary math.
- Number & Operations in Base Ten
Grades K to 5
The place value thread: counting, composing tens, multi-digit arithmetic, and decimals.
- Number & Operations: Fractions
Grades 3 to 5
The fractions thread from understanding unit fractions to dividing fractions, and where it feeds ratios and the rational number system.
- Measurement & Data
Grades K to 5
Measuring, telling time, representing data, area, and volume across elementary grades.
- Geometry
Grades K to 8
From naming shapes in kindergarten to congruence, similarity, and the Pythagorean theorem in eighth grade.
- Ratios & Proportional Relationships
Grades 6 to 7
Ratio reasoning and proportionality, the bridge between elementary fractions and linear relationships in eighth grade.
- The Number System
Grades 6 to 8
Extending arithmetic to negative numbers, rational numbers, and irrationals in middle school.
- Expressions & Equations
Grades 6 to 8
From evaluating expressions to solving linear equations and systems, the on-ramp to high school algebra.
- Statistics & Probability
Grades 6 to 8
Statistical variability, distributions, sampling, and probability models across middle school.
NGSS
Next Generation Science Standards
- Physical Science
Grades K to 12
Matter, forces, energy, and waves as they articulate across elementary, middle, and high school.
- Life Science
Grades K to 12
Organisms, ecosystems, heredity, and evolution as they articulate across grade bands.
- Earth & Space Science
Grades K to 12
Earth's place in the universe, Earth's systems, and human impacts across grade bands.
- Engineering Design
Grades K to 12
The engineering design process as it deepens from primary grades through high school.