Over 100 educators with expertise in the Illinois Learning Standards worked in grade band and subject teams to develop these drafts. The teams met every other week from September 2024 through February 2025, often volunteering additional time and effort.
These PLDs are meant to be a first attempt at finding the right level of detail and placing the expectations for proficiency at the right level of rigor. Your feedback will inform a final draft that will be shared for comment after this round of review is complete.
We encourage you to use the PLD Review Guiding Questions
to help you in your review of the PLDs.
- PLD Review Guiding Questions
This document can be used to guide either individual or group level review of the PLDs. - Understanding Text Complexity
Understanding text complexity is critical to understanding performance across the levels in all subjects, but especially English Language Arts .
