Standards

October 6, 2010 Update on Colorado Standards
CDE announced that they would be re-issuing the standards for mathematics and for reading, writing, and communicating sometime this fall. Committees have worked to incorporate the Common Core Standards. Expect the new standards to look more like the Common Core.

Colorado's New Standards for Reading, Writing, and Communicating
These replace the former model content standards for reading and writing. School districts are to move toward implementing these standards in the fall of 2011, about the time you might begin teaching! []

Common Core Curriculum Maps for ELA
Read these with a critical eye, but I think you should draw from them what you think is useful. Again, though, I urge you to think for yourself on behalf of your students. []

Standards for Speaking, Listening, and Media Literacy
NCA has endorsed the College Board Standards for College Readiness in English language arts and replaced their own K-12 communication standards with the ones in the ELA document. You can access them here: []. The communication standards begin with Sec. 2:127 of the PDF.