Instructional Materials

Reading/Language Arts

Note: Assembly Bill X4 2 (Chapter 2, Statutes of 2009-10 Fourth Extraordinary Session) signed on July 28, 2009, suspended the process and procedures for adopting instructional materials, including framework revisions, until the 2013-14 school year.

• State Board of Education Adopted Materials
  Programs adopted by the State Board of Education on November 5, 2008.
• Price Lists of K-8 Adopted Instructional Materials
  Search by subject.
• SBE 2008 RLA/ELD Primary Adoption Report (DOC; 518KB; 116pp.)
• Criteria for Evaluating Instructional Materials in Reading/Language Arts (PDF; 5MB; 55pp.)
  (Chapter 9 of the Reading/Language Arts Framework for California Public Schools 2007).
• Criteria by Program
  These documents detail the specific criteria for evaluating instructional materials for the 2008 Reading/Language Arts Adoption that apply to each of the five types of programs.
• Summary Statement on African American Vernacular English (AAVE) (DOC; 66KB; 8pp.)
  Written by William Labov, Professor and Director of the Linguistics Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania.

Publisher Information

• English Language Arts/English-Language Development (ELA/ELD) Standards Correlation Matrix
  This matrix is to be used by publishers to demonstrate alignment of their ELD materials with the ELA Standards and relevant ELD Standards.
• Standards Maps
  These standards maps were approved by the SBE at the November 2008 meeting.
  • Program 1: Reading/Language Arts Basic Program, Kindergarten Through Grade Eight
  • Program 2: Reading/Language Arts–English-Language Development Basic Program, Kindergarten Through Grade Eight
  • Program 3: Primary Language/English-Language Development Basic Program, Kindergarten Through Grade Eight
  • Program 4: Intensive Intervention Program in Reading/Language Arts, Grades Four Through Eight
  • Program 5: Intensive Intervention Program for English Learners, Grades Four Through Eight
• 2008 RLA/ELD Optional Evaluation Criteria Maps: Revised Note-taking Guides with Criteria for Evaluating Instructional Materials for 2008 RLA/ELD Adoption, draft pending SBE approval.
  • Instructions for Program 1: Reading/Language Arts Basic Program, K-8 (DOC; 35KB; 3pp.); Program 1 Map (DOC; 334KB; 43pp.)
  • Instructions for Program 2: RLA/ELD Basic Program, K-8 (DOC; 36KB; 3pp.); Program 2 Map (DOC; 367KB; 47pp.)
  • Instructions for Program 3: Primary Language/ELD Basic Program, K-8 (DOC; 36KB; 3pp.); Program 3 Map (DOC; 367KB; 48pp.)
  • Instructions for Program 4: Intervention Program, Grades 4-8 (DOC; 36KB; 3pp.); Program 4 Map (DOC; 292KB; 33pp.)
  • Instructions for Program 5: Intervention Program for English Learners, Grades 4-8 (DOC; 36KB; 3pp.); Program 5 Map (DOC; 282KB; 33pp.)
• Publishers Bulletin 2007-03; Publisher Questions and Answers
• Publishers Bulletin 2007-05; Publisher Questions and Answers scheduled for January 8, 2008
• Publishers Bulletin 2008-07; Publisher briefing scheduled for February 4, 2008
  • Attachment 1 ; Publisher Questions and Answers

2005 Follow-up Adoption

• State Board of Education Adopted Materials
  

2002 K-8 Reading/Language Arts—English-Language Development Instructional Materials Adoption

• 2002 RLA/ELD State Board of Education Adoption Report (PDF; 421KB; 59pp.)
  • Addendum to 2002 RLA/ELD State Board of Education Adoption Report (PDF; 44KB; 19pp.)
• 2002 Primary RLA/ELD Adopted Programs
  List of adopted programs.
• Grades 9-12 Standards Map Templates and Instructions
  Templates are completed with citations by publishers and used by local education agencies in reviews of instructional materials.