The 6-12 Literacy Standards in History/Social Studies, Science and Technical Subjects are spiraling, with an increasing level of difficulty embedded into the each grade-band standard as it approaches the College and Career Readiness Anchor Standard. These spiraling standards lead to growth along the trajectory of each standard as students study the same skill set yearly, but at ever-increasing increments of complexity and sophistication. This repeated exposure breaks complex learning expectations into manageable teaching and learning targets. (Wiggs, 2011). The following example of learning progressions shows the evolution of standards from 6-8 to College and Career. New skills and concepts are featured in bold to indicate their addition to the standard. Access the entire Content Area Progressions Document
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Grades 6-8 Common Core State Standards
Learning Progressions for Content Area Literacy Standards: Reading
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Anchor Standard
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History/Social Studies
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Science & Technical Subjects
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Read
closely to
determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical inferences from
it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking to support
conclusions drawn from the text.
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Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources.
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Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of science and technical texts.
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2.
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Determine central ideas or themes of a text
and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and
ideas.
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Determine the central ideas or information
of a primary or secondary source;
provide an accurate summary of the
source distinct from prior knowledge or opinions.
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Determine the central ideas or conclusions
of a text; provide an accurate summary
of the text distinct from prior knowledge or opinions.
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3.
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Analyze
how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the
course of a text.
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Identify key steps in a
text’s description of a process related to history/social studies (e.g.,
how a bill becomes law, how interest rates are raised or lowered).
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Follow precisely a multistep procedure when
carrying out experiments, taking measurements, or performing technical tasks.
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4.
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Interpret words and phrases as they are used
in a text, including determining technical, connotative, and figurative meanings,
and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone.
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Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a
text, including vocabulary specific to
domains related to history/social studies.
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Determine the meaning of symbols,
key terms, and other domain-specific words and phrases as they are used
in a specific scientific or technical
context relevant to grades 6–8 texts and topics.
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5.
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Analyze the structure of texts, including
how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of the text (e.g., a
section, chapter, scene, or stanza) relate to each other and the whole.
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Describe how a text presents
information (e.g., sequentially, comparatively, causally).
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Analyze the structure an
author uses to organize a text, including how the major sections contribute
to the whole and to an understanding of the topic.
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6.
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Assess
how point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of a text.
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Identify aspects
of a text that reveal an author’s point
of view or purpose (e.g., loaded language, inclusion or avoidance
of particular facts).
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Analyze the author’s purpose in providing
an explanation, describing a procedure, or discussing an experiment in a
text.
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7.
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Integrate and evaluate content presented in
diverse media and formats, including visually and quantitatively, as well as
in words.
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Integrate visual information (e.g., in
charts, graphs,
photographs, videos,
or maps) with other information in
print and digital
texts.
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Integrate quantitative or technical
information expressed in words in a text with a version of that information expressed visually (e.g., in a flowchart, diagram, model, graph, or
table).
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Delineate and evaluate the argument and
specific claims in a text, including the validity of the reasoning as well as
the relevance and sufficiency of the evidence.
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Distinguish among fact,
opinion, and
reasoned judgment in a text.
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Distinguish among facts,
reasoned judgment based on research findings, and speculation in a text.
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Analyze how two or more texts address
similar themes or topics in order to build knowledge or to compare the
approaches the authors take.
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Analyze the relationship
between a
primary and
secondary source on the
same topic.
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Compare and contrast the information gained
from experiments, simulations, video, or multimedia sources with that gained
from reading a text on
the same topic.
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10.
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Read and comprehend complex literary and
informational texts independently and proficiently.
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By the end of grade 8, read and
comprehend history/social
studies
texts in the
grades 6–8 text
complexity band independently and
proficiently.
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By the end of grade 8, read and comprehend science/technical texts in the grades 6–8 text complexity band
independently and proficiently.
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Grades 9-10 Common Core State Standards
Learning Progressions for Content Area Literacy Standards: Reading
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Anchor Standard
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History/Social Studies
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Science & Technical Subjects
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1.
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Read
closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical
inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking
to support conclusions drawn from the text.
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Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources, attending to such
features as the date and origin of the information.
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Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of science and technical texts, attending to the
precise details of explanations or descriptions.
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2.
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Determine central ideas or themes of a text
and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and
ideas.
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Determine the central ideas or information
of a primary or secondary source; provide an accurate summary of how key events or ideas develop over the
course of the text.
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Determine the central ideas or conclusions
of a text; trace the text’s explanation or depiction of a complex process,
phenomenon, or concept; provide an accurate summary of the text.
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3.
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Analyze
how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the
course of a text.
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Analyze in detail a series of
events described in a text; determine whether earlier events caused later
ones or simply preceded them.
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Follow precisely a complex
multistep procedure when carrying out experiments, taking measurements, or
performing technical tasks, attending
to special cases or exceptions defined in the text.
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4.
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Interpret words and phrases as they are used
in a text, including determining technical, connotative, and figurative
meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone.
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Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a
text, including vocabulary describing
political, social, or economic aspects of history/social science.
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Determine the meaning of symbols, key terms, and other
domain-specific words and phrases as they are used in a specific scientific
or technical context relevant to grades
9–10 texts and topics.
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5.
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Analyze the structure of texts, including
how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of the text (e.g., a
section, chapter, scene, or stanza) relate to each other and the whole.
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Analyze how a text uses
structure to emphasize key points or advance an explanation or analysis.
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Analyze the structure of the
relationships among concepts in a text, including relationships among key
terms (e.g., force, friction, reaction force, energy).
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6.
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Assess
how point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of a text.
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Compare the point
of view of two or more authors for how they treat the same or similar topics,
including which details they include and emphasize in their respective
accounts.
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Analyze the author’s purpose in providing an explanation, describing
a procedure, or discussing an experiment in a text, defining the question the author seeks to address.
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7.
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Integrate and evaluate content presented in
diverse media and formats, including visually and quantitatively, as well as
in words.
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Integrate quantitative or
technical analysis (e.g., charts, research data) with qualitative analysis
in print or digital text.
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Translate
quantitative or technical information
expressed in words in a text into visual form (e.g., a table or chart) and translate information expressed visually
or mathematically (e.g., in an equation) into words.
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8.
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Delineate and evaluate the argument and
specific claims in a text, including the validity of the reasoning as well as
the relevance and sufficiency of the evidence.
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Assess the extent
to which the reasoning and evidence in a text support the author’s claims.
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Assess the extent to which the reasoning and
evidence in a text support the author’s claim or a recommendation for solving
a scientific or technical problem.
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9.
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Analyze how two or more texts address
similar themes or topics in order to build knowledge or to compare the
approaches the authors take.
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Compare and
contrast treatments of the same topic
in several primary and secondary
sources.
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Compare and contrast findings
presented in a text to those from other sources (including their own
experiments), noting when the findings support or contradict previous
explanations or accounts.
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10.
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Read and comprehend complex literary and
informational texts independently and proficiently.
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By the end of grade 10,
read and comprehend history/social studies texts in the grades 9–10 text complexity band
independently and proficiently.
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By the end of grade 10,
read and comprehend science/technical texts in the grades 9–10 text complexity band independently
and proficiently.
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Grades 11-12 Common Core State Standards
Learning Progressions for Content Area Literacy Standards: Reading
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Anchor Standard
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History/Social Studies
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Science & Technical Subjects
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1.
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Read
closely to determine what the text says explicitly and to make logical
inferences from it; cite specific textual evidence when writing or speaking
to support conclusions drawn from the text.
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Cite specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and
secondary sources, connecting insights
gained from specific details to an understanding of the text as a whole.
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Cite
specific textual evidence to support analysis of science and technical texts,
attending to important distinctions
the author makes and to any gaps or inconsistencies in the account.
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2.
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Determine central ideas or themes of a text
and analyze their development; summarize the key supporting details and
ideas.
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Determine the central ideas or information of a primary or secondary
source; provide an accurate summary that
makes clear the relationships among the key details and ideas.
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Determine
the central ideas or conclusions of a text; summarize complex concepts, processes, or information presented in a
text by paraphrasing them in simpler but still accurate terms.
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3.
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Analyze
how and why individuals, events, and ideas develop and interact over the
course of a text.
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Evaluate various
explanations for actions or events and determine which explanation best
accords with textual evidence, acknowledging where the text leaves matters
uncertain.
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Follow
precisely a complex multistep procedure when carrying out experiments, taking
measurements, or performing technical tasks; analyze the specific results based on explanations in the text.
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4.
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Interpret words and phrases as they are used
in a text, including determining technical, connotative, and figurative
meanings, and analyze how specific word choices shape meaning or tone.
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Determine the meaning of words and phrases as they are used in a
text, including analyzing how an
author uses and refines the meaning of a key term over the course of a text
(e.g., how Madison defines faction in Federalist No. 10).
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Determine
the meaning of symbols, key terms, and other domain-specific words and
phrases as they are used in a specific scientific or technical context relevant
to grades 11–12 texts and
topics.
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5.
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Analyze the structure of texts, including
how specific sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of the text (e.g., a
section, chapter, scene, or stanza) relate to each other and the whole.
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Analyze in detail how a complex primary source is structured,
including how key sentences, paragraphs, and larger portions of the text contribute to the whole.
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Analyze
how the text structures information or
ideas into categories or hierarchies, demonstrating understanding of the information
or ideas.
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6.
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Assess
how point of view or purpose shapes the content and style of a text.
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Evaluate authors’
differing points of view on the same historical event or issue by assessing
the authors’ claims, reasoning, and evidence.
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Analyze
the author’s purpose in providing an explanation, describing a procedure, or
discussing an experiment in a text, identifying
important issues that remain unresolved.
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7.
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Integrate and evaluate content presented in
diverse media and formats, including visually and quantitatively, as well as
in words.
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Integrate and evaluate
multiple sources of information presented in diverse formats and media
(e.g., visually, quantitatively, as well as in words) in order to address a question or solve a problem.
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Integrate and evaluate multiple sources of information presented in diverse formats and media (e.g.,
quantitative data, video, multimedia) in
order to address a question or solve a problem.
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8.
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Delineate and evaluate the argument and
specific claims in a text, including the validity of the reasoning as well as
the relevance and sufficiency of the evidence.
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Evaluate an
author’s premises, claims, and evidence by corroborating or challenging them
with other information.
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Evaluate the hypotheses, data, analysis, and
conclusions in a science or technical text, verifying the data when possible
and corroborating or challenging conclusions with other sources of
information.
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9.
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Analyze how two or more texts address
similar themes or topics in order to build knowledge or to compare the
approaches the authors take.
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Integrate
information from diverse sources, both
primary and secondary, into a coherent
understanding of an idea or event, noting discrepancies among sources.
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Synthesize information from a range of
sources (e.g., texts, experiments, simulations) into a coherent understanding
of a process, phenomenon, or concept, resolving conflicting information when
possible.
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10.
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Read and comprehend complex literary and
informational texts independently and proficiently.
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By the end of grade 12,
read and comprehend history/social studies texts in the grades 11–12 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
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By the end of grade 12,
read and comprehend science/technical texts in the grades 11–12 text complexity band independently and proficiently.
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