This is the formal introduction to EL Education Language Arts Curriculum. It explains the structure of our program and lays out the principles behind our design. It includes our approach to addressing the Common Core ELA and literacy standards, and specifics about the key features of our comprehensive literacy curriculum (3 hours/day for K-2, 2 hours/day for Grades 3-5), as well as a description of the 3-5 Life Science Modules.

The K-5 Recommended Texts & Other Resources list contains books and other resources that have been selected by our experts to support research or read-alouds for each module.

In this blended unit students will review the parts of a story including characters, setting, beginning, middle, and end. Students will analyze a character based on their words, actions and thoughts. Students will describe complex characters, and identify character motivation giving supporting details from the text. They will explain how a character changes over the course of a narrative. Students will describe a setting and the events of a story using details from the text. Students will make inferences related to the details given in the story.

Students use Classkick during an English language arts class. The teacher can watch and see how students are responding to their ELA work.

A collection of 8 poems that use personification. The Word documents have each poem in plain text and illustrated. There is one Word document that has has all 8 reduced in size. The PowerPoint presentation has all 8 poems with background pictures. The poems are:City Jungle - Pie Corbett; Daffodowndilly - A A Milne; Fog - Carl Sandburg; Jack Frost - C E Pike; Snow and Snow - Ted Hughes; Great Water Giant - Ian Souter; Windmill Poem - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Tractor Poem - Valerie Worth

The crosswalks for the 3-5 Language Arts curriculum outline the general enhancements in our second edition curriculum (across all modules), plus the specific changes to each particular module (shown as a "cross-walk" of the first vs. second edition performance task and six on-demand assessments).

This essential guide to the EL Education K–5 Language Arts Curriculum is one part roadmap to the curriculum, one part orientation to its instructional practices, and one part coach—to answer your questions, relieve your stress, and put you and your students on the path to success.