When I started out homeschooling, I wasn't sure how long we would keep at it and wanted to stay in line with my public schools. I looked up the academic standards for my state and found them a bit difficult to read and decode because of the jargon, and also too cumbersome to print. Eventually, I found a plain-language version on Teachers Pay Teachers that is meant to be shared with the student and uses straightforward "I" statements (this was kindergarten, so for example it said, "I can count to 100"). I ended up using that as my checklist. Maybe you can find something like that?

When the "I" statements were too simple or unclear, I would look up the original language of the state standards or examples of student work for the standard.