A comprehensive set of learning expectations designed to ensure students are college and career ready. It includes the PA Core Standards for English Language Ar
Pennsylvania, United States
A comprehensive set of learning expectations designed to ensure students are college and career ready. It includes the PA Core Standards for English Language Arts and Mathematics, and Academic Standards for other subjects including the newly adopted STEELS standards for Science.
A comprehensive set of learning expectations designed to ensure students are college and career ready. It includes the PA Core Standards for English Language Arts and Mathematics, and Academic Standards for other subjects including the newly adopted STEELS standards for Science.
Year Adopted: 2013 (PA Core ELA/Math); 2022 (STEELS Science)
Pre-Kindergarten, Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, Grade 9, Grade 10, Grade 11, Grade 12
With prompting and support, identify the main topic and retell key details of a text.
Key skills: identifying main topic, retelling details, text comprehensionUse a combination of drawing, dictating, and writing to compose informative/explanatory texts.
Key skills: informative writing, expressive drawing, organization of ideasAsk and answer questions to demonstrate understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
Key skills: text-based evidence, critical questioning, inferencingDetermine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.
Key skills: identifying theme, character analysis, summarizingCite the textual evidence that most strongly supports an analysis of what the text says explicitly as well as inferences drawn from the text.
Key skills: strong evidence citation, analytical thinking, complex inferencingWrite opinion texts on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons and information.
Key skills: argumentative writing, logical reasoning, persuasive techniquesDetermine a theme or central idea of a text and analyze in detail its development over the course of the text.
Key skills: thematic development, literary analysis, textual synthesisKnow number names and write and recite the count sequence.
Key skills: counting to 100, number recognition, writing numeralsExtend the understanding of fractions to show equivalence and ordering.
Key skills: equivalent fractions, comparing fractions, fraction modelsAnalyze and solve linear equations and systems of two linear equations.
Key skills: solving for x, systems of equations, graphing linear functionsCreate and graph equations and inequalities to describe numbers or relationships.
Key skills: modeling with functions, graphing inequalities, algebraic manipulationUse materials to design a solution to a human problem by mimicking how plants and/or animals use their external parts to help them survive.
Key skills: biomimicry, engineering design, plant/animal structuresDevelop a model to describe that matter is made of particles too small to be seen.
Key skills: particle model of matter, scientific modeling, observational reasoningConstruct an explanation based on evidence for how geoscience processes have changed Earth's surface at varying time and spatial scales.
Key skills: plate tectonics, geologic time, evidence-based explanationExplain the purposes of rules, laws, and consequences in the classroom, school, and community.
Key skills: civic responsibility, understanding authority, community rulesDescribe how common geographic tools are used to organize and interpret information about people, places, and environment.
Key skills: map literacy, GIS basics, spatial analysisEvaluate the interpretation of historical events and sources, yielding different points of view.
Key skills: historical empathy, source criticism, historiographyPennsylvania uses the Standards Aligned System (SAS) as a central hub. It follows a 'Three-Dimensional' learning approach for Science (STEELS), integrating Science/Engineering Practices, Crosscutting Concepts, and Disciplinary Core Ideas. ELA and Math are heavily aligned with the Common Core but include PA-specific 'Eligible Content' for state assessments.
Student achievement is primarily assessed via the PSSA (Pennsylvania System of School Assessment) for grades 3-8 in ELA and Math, and Science in grades 4 and 8. High school students must take Keystone Exams in Algebra I, Biology, and Literature to meet graduation requirements.
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