UPDATE – the First Edition curriculum maps are still available free through archive.org, the internet archival site: Until recently, the folks at CommonCore.org have offered their curriculum maps free of charge. These were developed with grants from the Gates Foundation, among other funding sources. The drafts received over 3 million views–obviously popular. Many school districts and state department of educations recommended these as great resources.
The Second Edition of the ELA Maps are now available–at a cost. It’s a $20 membership fee that gives you access to the entire K-12 set.
However, the First Edition curriculum maps are still available free through archive.org, the internet archival site. The links below will take you to the Archive.org site, First Edition FREE versions. The formatting is stripped from some of it, so be sure to scroll down to find the information you need.
K-12 Curriculum Maps
CommonCore.org, with support from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, have created a set of K-12 curriculum maps for English Language Arts to be used for planning purposes. See CommonCore.org for more information on how the maps were developed.
- Kindergarten
- Unit 1 A Colorful Time with Rhythm and Rhyme
- Unit 2 Tell A Story, 1-2-3
- Unit 3 Exploring with Friends In the Neighborhood
- Unit 4 America: Symbols and Celebrations
- Unit 5 The Great Big World
- Unit 6 Wonders of Nature: Plants, Bugs, and Frogs
- Grade 1
- Unit 1 Alphabet Books and Children Who Read Them
- Unit 2 The Amazing Animal World
- Unit 3 Life Lessons
- Unit 4 Winds of Change
- Unit 5 American Contributions
- Unit 6 Around the World with a Glass Slipper
- Grade 2
- Unit 1 A Season for Chapters
- Unit 2 The Wild West
- Unit 3 Building Bridges with Unlikely Friends
- Unit 4 A Long Journey to Freedom
- Unit 5 Hand-Me-Down Tales From Around the World
- Unit 6 Taking Care of Ourselves
- Grade 3
- Unit 1 Stories Worth Telling Again and Again
- Unit 2 Inspired by the Sea
- Unit 3 Creative, Inventive, and Notable People
- Unit 4 The People, The Preamble, and the Presidents
- Unit 5 A Feast of Words on a Planet Called Earth and Beyond
- Unit 6 Fantastic Adventures with Dragons, Gods, and Giants
- Grade 4
- Unit 1 Tales of the Heart
- Unit 2 Literature Settings – Weather or Not
- Unit 3 Animals are Characters, Too: Characters who Gallop, Bark, and Squeak
- Unit 4 Revolutionaries from the Past
- Unit 5 Stories of the Earth & Sky
- Unit 6 Literary Heroes
- Grade 5
- Unit 1 Playing with Words
- Unit 2 Inventive Thinking
- Unit 3 Clues to a Culture
- Unit 4 America in Conflict
- Unit 5 Exploration – Real and Imagined
- Unit 6 Coming of Age
- Grade 6
- Unit 1 I Won’t Grow Up
- Unit 2 Folklore: A Blast from the Past
- Unit 3 Embracing Heritage
- Unit 4 Courageous Characters
- Unit 5 Figure it Out
- Unit 6 Winging It
- Grade 7
- Unit 1 Characters with Character
- Unit 2 Perseverance
- Unit 3 Determination in Life and in Literature
- Unit 4 Survival in the Wild
- Unit 5 Science or Fiction?
- Unit 6 Literature Reflects Life: Making Sense of our World>
- Grade 8
- Unit 1 Urban Settings in America: “It Happened in the City”
- Unit 2 Rural Settings in North America: “It Happened in the Country”
- Unit 3 Looking Back on America
- Unit 4 Authors and Artists
- Unit 5 Dramatically Speaking
- Unit 6 “The Road Not Taken”
- Grade 9
- Unit 1 Literary Elements and The Short Story
- Unit 2 The Novel – Honor
- Unit 3 Poetry – Beauty
- Unit 4 Drama – Fate
- Unit 5 Epic Poetry – Heroism
- Unit 6 Literary Nonfiction – Reflection (The Memoir, The Essay, and The Speech)
- Grade 10
- Unit 1 World Literature: Latin and Central America
- Unit 2 World Literature: Asia
- Unit 3 World Literature: Africa and the Middle East
- Unit 4 World Literature: Russia
- Grade 11
- Unit 1 The New World
- Unit 2 A New Nation
- Unit 3 American Romanticism
- Unit 4 A Troubled Young Nation
- Unit 5 Emerging Modernism
- Unit 6 Challenges and Successes of the Twentieth Century>
- Grade 12
- Unit 1 European Literature: Middle Ages
- Unit 2 European Literature: Renaissance and Reformation
- <Unit 3 European Literature: Seventeenth Century
- Unit 4 European Literature: Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century
- Unit 5 European Literature: Nineteenth Century
- Unit 6 European Literature: Twentieth Century/li>
