ELA
5th Grade
Green Woods 5th grade literacy program uses 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 5th grade reading program also uses Journeys, a comprehensive K-6 language arts program. It provides an instructional system for reading both literature and informational texts, for acquiring foundational skills, and for developing mastery of speaking, listening and writing. 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. Students respond to literature with written responses and practice Text Dependent Analysis.
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