These 27 literacy skills develop throughout the course of a student's academic career, PK-12. Each skill is vertically articulated with its related objectives and then paired with commentary on how the rigor changes over time. Use these progressions to align your curriculum, discuss similarities and differences in teaching practices, and gain insight into expectations for student abilities.

	Reading Skills		Writing Skills
	Author's Purpose		Citations
	Genre		Editing
	Literary Devices		Informative Writing
	Literary Elements		Multimodal Content
	Main Idea		Narrative Writing
	Paraphrasing		Opinion & Argument Writing
	Parts of Speech		Presentations
	Resources		Research Writing
	Phonics & Word Study		Revision
	Phonological Awareness		Sentence Types & Structures
	Rhetoric		Spelling & Encoding
	Summarizing		Standard American English
	Text Structures
	Theme, Mood, & Tone
	Word Parts