A comprehensive set of K-12 academic standards designed to ensure students graduate with the knowledge and skills necessary for success in college, careers, and
South Carolina, United States
A comprehensive set of K-12 academic standards designed to ensure students graduate with the knowledge and skills necessary for success in college, careers, and citizenship. The standards align with the 'Profile of the South Carolina Graduate,' emphasizing world-class knowledge, skills, and life characteristics.
A comprehensive set of K-12 academic standards designed to ensure students graduate with the knowledge and skills necessary for success in college, careers, and citizenship. The standards align with the 'Profile of the South Carolina Graduate,' emphasizing world-class knowledge, skills, and life characteristics.
Year Adopted: 2024 (ELA), 2025 (Math), 2021 (Science), 2019 (Social Studies)
Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, Grade 4, Grade 5, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8, High School (9-12)
Identify, name, and form all upper and lowercase letters with automaticity.
Key skills: Letter recognition, Handwriting, Alphabetical orderWith prompting and support, identify the main idea and key details in a literary text.
Key skills: Comprehension, Identifying details, Critical thinkingRead regularly spelled multi-syllabic words by breaking them into syllables.
Key skills: Decoding, Syllabication, PhonicsWrite opinion pieces on topics or texts, supporting a point of view with reasons.
Key skills: Argumentative writing, Evidence-based claims, OrganizationTrace the development of an author’s argument and identify the use of rhetorical appeals (ethos, pathos, logos).
Key skills: Rhetorical analysis, Argument tracing, Critical readingAnalyze how an author uses rhetoric to advance a point of view or purpose in an informational text.
Key skills: Advanced rhetoric, Author's purpose, Persuasive techniquesRepresent multi-digit numbers in a variety of ways to build place value understanding.
Key skills: Place value, Number representation, Base tenUnderstand and apply properties of operations and the relationship between addition and subtraction.
Key skills: Commutative property, Fact families, Problem solvingRecognize that in a multi-digit whole number, a digit in one place represents ten times what it represents in the place to its right.
Key skills: Place value power of 10, Multi-digit operations, EstimationInterpret the equation y = mx + b as defining a linear function, whose graph is a straight line.
Key skills: Linear functions, Slope-intercept form, GraphingCreate and solve linear equations and inequalities in one variable, including equations with coefficients represented by letters.
Key skills: Variable isolation, Literal equations, Constraint modelingUse evidence to construct an explanation relating the speed of an object to the energy of that object.
Key skills: Energy observation, Kinetic energy, Evidence-based explanationDevelop and use a model that predicts and describes changes in particle motion, temperature, and state of a pure substance when thermal energy is added or removed.
Key skills: Modeling, Thermodynamics, Phase changesConstruct an explanation based on evidence for how the structure of DNA determines the structure of proteins which carry out the essential functions of life.
Key skills: Molecular biology, DNA structure, Protein synthesisAnalyze how rights are granted to U.S. citizens through the founding documents.
Key skills: Citizenship, Founding documents, Bill of RightsAnalyze the causes and impacts of social movements in the U.S. and South Carolina.
Key skills: Civil Rights, Social change, Cause and effectContextualize the impact of various early American documents on the development of American democracy.
Key skills: Contextualization, Democratic principles, Primary source analysisSouth Carolina transitions to new standards on a staggered schedule. ELA 2024 standards are operational for the 2024-2025 school year. Mathematics 2025 standards become fully operational in 2025-2026. High school courses are 'gateway' courses (Algebra 1, English 2, Biology 1, US History) that require End-of-Course exams.
Students in grades 3-8 are assessed via SC READY in ELA and Mathematics. Science is assessed in grades 4 and 6. High school students take the End-of-Course Examination Program (EOCEP) for gateway subjects. Social Studies testing is currently suspended for grades 3-8 per legislative proviso but remains required for high school graduation (US History and Constitution).
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