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 3A, a New York State Learning Standards-aligned module, students build knowledge of simple machines and how they impact force, effort, and work. Students work in small groups to read about specific simple machines (inclined plane, levers, pulleys, etc.) as well as reading and conducting a series of science experiments using simple machines. At the end of the module, they write an editorial to be submitted to a fictitious engineering magazine, expressing an opinion about which simple machine benefits people the most in their everyday lives. A complete set of materials for Grade 4: Module 3A should include the Teacher Guides (978-1683621782), one Student Workbook (978-1683621829) per student, and the required trade books for this module. For more information, go to http: //commoncoresuccess.eleducation.org/.
