Michigan ELA Standards (K-12 Standards)
Michigan ELA standards by grade and course, with official codes and links.
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- Standards
- Michigan K-12 Standards for English Language Arts
- Adopted
- 2010
- Packs
- 13
- Last checked
- 2026-10-21
Michigan uses the Common Core ELA standards, so these pages point search engines to our national Common Core pages.
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By grade
Kindergarten ELA · 1st Grade ELA · 2nd Grade ELA · 3rd Grade ELA · 4th Grade ELA · 5th Grade ELA · 6th Grade ELA · 7th Grade ELA · 8th Grade ELA · 9th Grade ELA · 10th Grade ELA · 11th Grade ELA · 12th Grade ELA
State tests
- Michigan Student Test of Educational Progress (M-STEP) (official page)
- PSAT (College Board) (official page)
- Michigan Merit Examination (MME) incl. SAT (official page)
- MI-Access – grades alternate assessment (official page)
Check the Michigan Department of Education for which grades are tested and this year's testing dates (we have not yet confirmed every detail above on the official site).
Official documents
- michigan.gov: ELA Standards.pdf?rev=0f76588bc2bd48f89165484fa35d2b31&hash=
- michigan.gov: academic standards
- michigan.gov: m step
- michigan.gov: Math Standards.pdf?rev=1e793e2b1e314e4fa1abc754251b5dc9&hash
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