ELA Learning Progressions Frameworks

In this paper, Karin Hess, and Jacqui Kearns describe how learning progressions can be used in curriculum development and assessment.  Learning progressions propose the intermediate understandings between these anchor points that are “reasonably coherent networks of ideas and practices...that contribute to building a more mature understanding.” Further, the authors explain that often, the “important precursor ideas may not look like the later ideas, yet crucially contribute to their construction."