A coalition of state governors and chief state school officers has released a set of recommended common state educational standards. The website is pretty information-dense, but the standards themselves are worth looking at and could provide a set of suggested guidelines for homeschoolers who are looking for ideas of what they "should" be teaching at each grade level.
The part that's really useful for homeschoolers, if you ask me: The Recommended Book List.
That is: "Appendix B: Text Exemplars and Sample Performance Tasks."
It's a good list. I'll be printing it and saving it for reference.
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