ELA
5th Grade
Green Woods 5th grade literacy program uses American Reading Company (ARC) Core as our ELA curriculum resource. ARC Core is a framework that provides teachers with a structure to promote inquiry through apprenticeship. The resource provides a scope and sequence aligned to the Common Core State Standards (CCSS), high interest text for teacher modeling, and varying levels of text for student independent work. Along with the framework, ARC provides an Independent Reading Level Assessment that guides teachers through setting individual reading goals for students.
The ARC resources support students as developing readers by providing them with strategies they need to be able to read complex text on their own. Reading, Writing, Listening, Speaking, and Language skills are embedded throughout each unit as students study themes connected to Science, Social Studies, and Literature.
There are 4 units of study throughout the school year. In 5th grade these units consist of Literacy Lab, Ecosystems, Adventure and Survival, and Space.
6th Grade
Green Woods 6th grade literacy program focuses on novels as anchor texts to challenge students and serve as a foundation for an investigation into theme, genre, and related essential questions. The novels serve as the base and supplemental complex texts support and complement the students’ reading journey. The 6th grade reading program also uses Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Collections which is a comprehensive middle school literacy program that provides students with the tools they need to succeed in the classroom and beyond. The Collections program uses topically linked complex texts to drive instruction in close reading, drawing inferences and conclusions, citing specific textual evidence, and developing argument. Students read and respond to works of literature and informational texts with an emphasis on comprehension, vocabulary acquisition, and making connections among ideas and between texts with a focus on textual evidence. Within the Collections program students practice the skills of communication in speaking, listening, and writing with interactive lessons that provide models and feedback. Students demonstrate careful analysis, well defended claims, and synthesis of ideas.
7th Grade
Green Woods 7th grade literacy program focuses on novels as anchor texts to challenge students and serve as a foundation for an investigation into theme, genre, and related essential questions. The novels serve as the base and supplemental complex texts support and complement the students’ reading journey. The 7th grade reading program also uses Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Collections which is a comprehensive middle school literacy program that provides students with the tools they need to succeed in the classroom and beyond. The Collections program uses topically linked complex texts to drive instruction in close reading, drawing inferences and conclusions, citing specific textual evidence, and developing argument. Students read and respond to works of literature and informational texts with an emphasis on comprehension, vocabulary acquisition, and making connections among ideas and between texts with a focus on textual evidence. Within the Collections program students practice the skills of communication in speaking, listening, and writing with interactive lessons that provide models and feedback. Students demonstrate careful analysis, well defended claims, and synthesis of ideas
8th Grade
Green Woods 8th grade literacy program primarily focuses on novels as anchor texts to challenge students and serve as a foundation for an investigation into theme, genre, and related essential questions. The novels serve as the base and supplemental complex texts support and complement the students’ reading journey. The 8th grade reading program also uses Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Collections which is a comprehensive middle school literacy program that provides students with the tools they need to succeed in the classroom and beyond. The Collections program uses topically linked complex texts to drive instruction in close reading, drawing inferences and conclusions, citing specific textual evidence, and developing argument. Students read and respond to works of literature and informational texts with an emphasis on comprehension, vocabulary acquisition, and making connections among ideas and between texts with a focus on textual evidence. Within the Collections program students practice the skills of communication in speaking, listening, and writing with interactive lessons that provide models and feedback. Students demonstrate careful analysis, well defended claims, and synthesis of ideas