ELA CCRS Curriculum Guide
The Curriculum Guide to the Alabama Course of Study: English Language Arts provides prerequisite and enabling skills that lead to learning grade-level academic standards. The curriculum guide can be used to assist students in learning content in smaller increments, catching up on content they may have missed in previous years, and/or reviewing content related to grade-level academic standards.
Is your lesson a true CCRS Lesson? Use this
rubric to rate yourself (Tri-State Quality Rubrics)
Want to search AL ELA COS lessons by grade, strand, or anchor standard? Click 
and then the Alabama Insight graphic. Create an ALEX account, if you don't already have one!
9-12 have correlations to the EOCT.
How to determine Common Core Standards in 2010 ELA COS (see example below)
Copied from the 2010 Alabama Course of Study: English Language Arts (page 13).
Text samples primarily serve to exemplify the level of complexity and quality that the Standards require all students in a given grade band to engage with. Additionally, they are suggestive of the breadth of texts that students should encounter in the text types required by the Standards. The choices should serve as useful guideposts in helping educators select texts of similar complexity, quality, and range for their own classrooms. They expressly do not represent a partial or complete reading list.
SDE ELA CCRS Resources
2013-2014 (PowerPoints, EQuIP Rubric, Sample Lessons, Formative Assessment Strategies, Text Complexity, Dr. Bice Videos, etc.)
2012-2013 PowerPoints, INSIGHT Tool, Sample Lessons, Text Complexity, Dr. Bice Videos, etc.)
2010-2011
OVERVIEW
(PPT)
K-5 IMPLEMENTATION
(PPT)
(Video, Click "WebEx Presentation 2," 35 minutes)
(Video, Click "WebEx Presentation 3, " 18 minutes)
6-12 IMPLEMENTATION
(Video, Click "ELACOS Grades 6-12 Part I, 18 minutes)
(PPT)
(Video, Click English Language Arts COS Overview, Grades 6-12 Part 2, 13 minutes)