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Additional Language and Literacy Block
Module Lessons and Additional Language and Literacy Block
(2 hours daily)
Module Lessons and ALL Block Hand-in-Hand
3–5 LANGUAGE ARTS CURRICULUM
3–5 Module Lessons
+ Additional Language and Literacy Block
ALL Block
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What are the ve components of the ALL Block and how does each promote pro ciency and growth?
The ALL Block responds to upper elementary students’ need for greater independence and mastery as learners. The ALL Block exists to give students more practice in order to achieve mastery. During this hour, students have additional time to work with texts, ideas, and skills that are initially introduced in the module lessons. They also have time set aside every day in the ALL Block to read independently, something that all too often gets lost in the shuffle of a busy school schedule.
In order to better understand the why behind the design of this hour of instruction, the table that follows describes each component of the ALL Block and describes how it promotes pro ciency and growth.
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