ELA Curriculum Map 2020
This document outlines the ELA curriculum at Clinton Elementary School as well as pacing and assessments.
This document outlines the ELA curriculum at Clinton Elementary School as well as pacing and assessments.
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Appendix D is a bibliography which includes digital and print sources on English language arts and literacy.
Literacy in the Context of a Well-Rounded Pre-K–5 Curriculum
Understanding of language and story begins when babies listen to their parents, family members, siblings, and friends converse, read them stories and poems, sing songs,
and play games. Growing up in a literacy-rich environment helps develop vocabulary, social and emotional learning, and knowledge of the world.
Opportunities to expand children’s literacy skills, content knowledge and love of reading abound at the elementary school level. The pre-K–5 ELA/Literacy standards include
expectations for reading, writing, speaking, listening, and language applicable to language arts, mathematics, social studies/civics, science, the arts, social/emotional learning and
comprehensive health, and digital literacy. Access to a comprehensive classroom, school, or public library is a key aspect of building literacy at any level. Librarians and teachers can
help students find literary and informational texts that will build content knowledge and appeal to individual readers’ interests. Adults can use the suggested author/illustrator lists in
Appendix B as a guide to locating well-written texts that explore significant ideas using rich vocabulary and high-quality visual images.
Range of Student Reading, Listening, and Viewing in Pre-K– 5
Students in pre-K–5 should read texts selected from a broad range of cultures and periods to complement a well-rounded curriculum and appeal to individual readers’ interests.
● Literature
○ Stories: Includes children’s adventure stories, fantasy stories, mysteries, realistic fiction, and myths, folktales, legends, and fables.
○ Drama: Includes staged dialogue and scripts of brief scenes.
○ Poetry: Includes nursery rhymes and the subgenres of the narrative poem, limerick, and free verse poem.
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Informational Text
○ Literary Nonfiction and Historical, Scientific, Mathematical, and Technical Texts Includes biographies and autobiographies; books and articles about history, social
science, mathematics, and the arts; book reviews, editorials, and opinion pieces; and technical texts, including directions, forms, and information displayed in
graphs, charts, or maps.
○ Note: Some informational books for children on mathematics and science present concepts in the form of imaginative narratives or poems.
Multimedia, Video, and Audio Texts
○ In order to meet the standards for Speaking and Listening, students should have the opportunity to listen to, view, discuss, and write about recorded or live
speeches, storytelling, performances, and short video documentaries or news reports chosen to complement the curriculum.
Literacy and Digital Literacy
○ The Massachusetts Standards for Digital Literacy and Computer Science contain Practice 6 (Collaboration) and Practice 7 (Research) and a set of related
standards for Digital Tools and Collaboration. These complement, in particular, the ELA/literacy Framework's Writing Standard 6 on Collaboration and Standards 7
and 8 on Research. The Digital Literacy Standards for the elementary grades are written for K–2 and 3–5. Literacy and Mathematics In the elementary grades,
math is commonly taught by classroom teachers, sometimes with the assistance of a math coach. These educators share the responsibility of making vital
connections between math and literacy; hence there are references to math in this Framework and references to literacy in the Massachusetts Curriculum
Framework for Mathematics. When math is referred to in the ELA/literacy Framework, it is with the assumption that any reading, writing, speaking, and listening
and language work in math will be closely aligned to the grade-level standards for mathematical content and the standards for mathematical practice in the
Massachusetts Curriculum Framework for Mathematics.
Connections among the Standards for Mathematical Practice and Literacy
Three Standards for Mathematical Practice (SMP) for pre-K–5 have natural connections to literacy: