Governed by the Data Literacy Standards
Chart-Ed gives K-12 educators the standards, tools, and classroom resources to teach chart reading as a real literacy skill, from first noticing what a chart shows to reasoning responsibly from evidence.
The Problem
Charts appear in state tests, textbooks, news, science labs, social studies sources, and everyday digital life. But students are often expected to interpret them without being taught chart reading as its own literacy skill.
Chart-Ed gives educators a shared standard, practical tools, and classroom resources for teaching students to notice accurately, interpret carefully, and reason responsibly from evidence.
Classroom Resources
Each resource line supports a different data-literacy move: reading, calculating, assessment practice, or source audit. When teachers need something ready to use, the store offers packs built from real-world charts.
Flagship
Math, science, and social studies · DLL 1-9
$12.99
A governed chart-reading sequence where students notice design choices, read labeled values, make bounded comparisons, and construct chart-authorized claims.
Teaching purposeMost curricula display charts. Data Ascent explicitly teaches students how to read them.
Explore Data Ascent
Math
Math teachers · DLL 3-6
$10.99
Calculation and justification tasks that require students to extract chart values before they compute, then cite the evidence that authorizes the answer.
Teaching purposeState tests embed math in charts. Data Math bridges calculation skill and evidence-based chart reading.
Explore Data Math
Test Prep
Secondary, all subjects · DLL 3-8
from $11.99
Assessment-style chart items built to mirror the format, language, and demand of ACT, SAT, and state exams. Standard focuses on core interpretation; Advanced extends into constructed response, multi-step reasoning, and inference limits.
Teaching purposeMost test prep ignores chart-based reasoning entirely. Students arrive at the exam without practicing the specific skill the exam most reliably tests.
Explore Data Test Prep
AP / Honors
AP, honors, and research · DLL 6-8
$13.99
An advanced audit of source credibility, construction choices, inference limits, and the difference between visual impression and evidentiary reach.
Teaching purposeAdvanced students are asked to use data as evidence. Data Forensics teaches them to audit whether the data authorizes the claim.
Explore Data ForensicsOne real-world chart packaged as a coherent sequence from first encounter to forensic audit, with student and teacher editions in one download.
How It Works
Chart-Ed is organized around a simple instructional idea: chart reading develops in stages, and teachers should be able to see the stage they are teaching.
Step 1
Use the DLS progression to name what students are learning to do with data.
Step 2
Use a ready-made chart resource, build a classroom chart, or read guidance for teaching the move.
Step 3
Students work from real charts and learn to say what the evidence shows, not just what they notice.
Step 4
DLL levels make the next instructional step visible, from noticing to responsible inference.
The Data Literacy Standards define what chart literacy looks like at every level of development, from locating a labeled value to auditing whether a chart authorizes a claim. Chart-Ed uses those standards to organize resources, tools, and guidance for classroom use.
Who This Is For
Connect computation to the chart evidence students are actually interpreting.
Make chart reading explicit inside the content areas where data already appears.
Give students practice with the chart reasoning exams quietly depend on.
Help advanced students audit whether evidence actually authorizes a claim.
Product carousel
Choose a product line, then scroll across a wider set of available classroom packs.
Data Ascent
Structured chart-reading lessons for helping students notice accurately, orient to a chart, and make evidence-based claims step by step.
Chart generator
Use the Chart-Ed generator to create simple, readable charts for lessons, assessments, displays, and student discussion. Start with one free PNG export, then use credits for additional classroom-ready downloads.
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Featured guidance
Foundational Article
From the Chart-Ed Institute
From the Chart-Ed Institute
From the Chart-Ed blog
Invite students past first impressions with short posts built for teacher reflection, chart discussion, and practical next moves.
A one-page summary of all five DLS bands: what students can do with a chart at each stage, and what they are ready to learn next.
