The Core Knowledge Curriculum Series™ provides comprehensive, content-rich learning materials based on the Core Knowledge Sequence. Student readers, teacher guides, activity books, and other materials are available for Language Arts, History and Geography, and Science. Materials for Math are in development.
Free Downloadable Core Knowledge Curriculum
By making many of our Core Knowledge curriculum materials freely available, we work to put into practice the principle that every child in a democracy should have access to shared, enabling knowledge.
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Language Arts Curriculum
The Core Knowledge Language Arts curriculum provides comprehensive materials to teach reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills. The program is free to download and available for students in Preschool through Grade 6.
Learn More and See Tips on ImplementationHistory and Geography Curriculum
Through our History and Geography curriculum, Core Knowledge offers comprehensive materials to teach world and American history and geography. The curriculum follows the Core Knowledge Sequence to help students build knowledge of diverse civilizations, cultures, and concepts.
Learn More and See Integration with Other SubjectsScience Curriculum
The Core Knowledge Science curriculum offers comprehensive materials to teach scientific concepts and develop scientific practices through hands-on activities. Based on the revised Core Knowledge Science Sequence, the curriculum helps students build knowledge in the life, physical, and earth/space sciences, as well as engineering design.
Learn More and See Science in ActionMath Curriculum
The Core Knowledge Mathematics curriculum offers comprehensive materials to support conceptual understanding and procedural fluency for student success in math. Units for the middle grades 6–8 are being developed now.
Learn More and Get Started with CKMathRecommended Titles by Other Publishers that Enhance Core Knowledge Implementation
We offer this grade-by-grade list of books sold by other publishers for schools that may be interested in adding these titles to their school or classroom libraries. All books have been reviewed by Core Knowledge staff.
Grade-by-Grade Recommendations for Additional Titles by Other PublishersMore in the Store
Visit the Core Knowledge Store to explore other content-rich materials, including the popular What Your ___ Grader Needs to Know series. Looking for print editions of items in the Core Knowledge Curriculum Series? As they become available, you’ll find those in the Store as well.
Terms of Use for Free Core Knowledge Curriculum
The materials made available for download are freely available for anyone to use, adapt, and share (with attribution). No one is permitted to extract any images included in our PDF materials for use in any other way; to do so would be a violation of the agreements under which the images were licensed. No one is permitted to sell either the original program, an adaptation of it, or lesson plans that reproduce any part of it. For more information, see the Guidelines to Core Knowledge and the Creative Commons License.
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