BITESIZE READING LIBRARY V4.4.0 — STANDARDS ALIGNMENT BUILD STATUS
16 September 2026

COMPLETED IN THIS BUILD
- Added Standards Alignment to the left menu.
- Added Common Core ELA Reading framework for Grades 2–5.
- Added 84 teacher-facing standard records: 21 per grade across RL, RI and RF.
- Added Coverage Overview, By Standard, By Resource, and Gaps & Suggestions views.
- Added Addressed / Practised / Assessed evidence levels.
- Added live library aggregation: coverage recalculates from resources currently installed in My Library.
- Added per-resource Standards button/route.
- Added conservative gap suggestions.
- Added central verified alignment registry keyed to Discover/catalog product ID.
- Added support for embedded standardsAlignment metadata in future resource ZIPs.
- Embedded resource metadata takes priority over central registry data.
- Added future product recommendation logic: once audited catalogue mappings exist, gap view can suggest specific verified Discover resources.
- Existing resources without verified alignment remain usable and display detected reading-skill evidence without making unsupported Common Core claims.

CATALOGUE STATUS
- Discover catalogue: 783 total products.
- Reading Comprehension products: 415.
- Reading Comprehension products overlapping Grades 2–5: 411.
- Verified Common Core resource mappings populated in the new central registry: 0 (deliberately left empty until each resource/family is audited against its actual tasks).

WHAT REMAINS FOR A COMPLETE FIRST RELEASE
1. Audit the Grade 2–5 Reading Comprehension catalogue and populate verified standards mappings.
2. Where appropriate, establish safe family/variant inheritance rules so repeated Silver/Gold/grade variants do not need unnecessary duplicate auditing.
3. Record evidence for each mapping (presentation slide/task/question/worksheet/assessment reference).
4. Identify genuine coverage gaps after the registry is populated; create or revise resources for those gaps.
5. Add verified Discover recommendations for each gap automatically through the populated registry.
6. Decide whether RF.3 phonics/word analysis should be supplied by Reading Library resources or linked to Sounds to Sentences; keep RF.4 fluency in Reading Library.
7. Add a remote standards registry endpoint so audited mappings can update without a full Reading Library software release.
8. Add optional state-framework mappings later (for example state-specific standards) while retaining Common Core as the baseline.
9. Carry out final visual/browser QA on Windows/Chromebook/Mac and with a real library containing several installed resources.
10. Optionally add teacher tracking later (Available in Library -> Taught -> Assessed). V4.4.0 currently measures library availability/alignment, not what a class has actually been taught.

FACTUALITY RULE
A Common Core standard is only counted when alignment metadata is explicitly verified. Skill names, keywords, titles, or incidental appearances do not count as standards alignment by themselves.
