Publisher's Synopsis
EL Education's ELA Curriculum combines rigorous, standards-aligned content with effective instructional practice. Developed by teachers for teachers, the curriculum draws on EL Education's 20 years of experience to engage teachers and students in active learning every day. It covers 160 days of instruction across a school year, developed down to the level of daily lessons, and addresses a full year of English Language Arts instruction in four modules. Students get excited about learning through authentic texts, compelling topics and ownership of their own learning. Teachers get a vision of the instructional practices that support a standards-aligned classroom and the tools to create it. Originally commissioned by New York State when EL Education went by the name Expeditionary Learning, the version of the ELA curriculum posted on New York's Engage NY website has been downloaded over 6 million times. In Grade 4: Module 2A, a New York State Learning Standards-aligned module, students learn about what life was like in Colonial America. They study the many roles people played in a colonial settlement and how necessary their interdependence was for survival. Students select one role to explore more deeply. With an emphasis on making inferences, summarizing informational text, and research (note-taking and pulling together information from a variety of texts), this module fosters students' abilities to synthesize information from multiple sources and integrate research into their writing. A complete set of materials for Grade 4: Module 2A should include the Teacher Guides (978-1683621737), one Student Workbook (978-1683621775) per student, and the required trade books for this module. For more information, go to http: //commoncoresuccess.eleducation.org/.
