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Stories of Human Rights
The Comprehensive Grades 3–5 Language Arts Curriculum
Elementary age students are joy seekers. They crave collaboration with their peers and engage- ment in their learning through play, story, and games. They also have unique needs and charac- teristics. Their growing hunger for independence and mastery as learners makes them ready to put their hard-earned reading and writing skills to work.
Our Grades 3–5 curriculum honors students’ growing capacity to read complex text, write at length and with depth, and explore pressing issues in the world around them. The curriculum includes two hours of rich content-based literacy instruction per day:
■ One hour of module lessons
■ One hour of the Additional Language and Literacy Block
These two hours of curriculum are considered comprehensive, explicitly teaching and formally assessing all strands and standards of the Common Core ELA/literacy standards for each grade level (Note: The initial exposure to and formal assessment of standards happens in the module lessons; the ALL Block is for additional practice.) There is also an optional companion Life Sci- ence Module that accompanies Module 2 and comprises eight weeks of instruction.
Grades 3–5 Comprehensive Literacy: Structure
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