Speaking and Listening Standards

Updated 2020 Maine Speaking and Listening Standards.

The Speaking and Listening strand provides learning targets in developmental progressions for each grade K-5. The standards then move to multi-grade spans in grades 6-8 and 9-12. 

• Speaking and Listening Preamble

• Speaking & Listening K-12 Progression

Essential Topics in ELA

Resources to support the speaking and listening standards.

• The Role of Speaking and Listening. From Appendix A of the Common Core State Standards.
• Bibliography. From Appendix A of the Common Core State Standards, provides the research and reference foundation that informed the development of the speaking and listening standards.