ELA

Below are the units CCSS uses from the Louisiana Curriculum Hub for each grade level

Amplify CKLA (Core Knowledge Language Arts) is a comprehensive program based for teaching reading, writing, listening, and speaking while also building students' vocabulary and knowledge across essential domains in literature, world and American history, and the sciences. (www.coreknowledge.org) In our district this curriculum is taught in grades K-2. Based on Science of Reading research, our students will gain deep content knowledge and strong foundational skills through this rich, evidence-based approach. All of the Louisiana ELA standards are included in our daily instruction throughout the year. Assessments are aligned to these standards as well. 

Kindergarten Knowledge Units

  • Nursery Rhymes and Fables

  • The Five Senses

  • Stories

  • Plants

  • Farms

  • Native Americans

  • Kings and Queens

  • Seasons and Weather

  • Columbus and the Pilgrims

  • Colonial Towns and Townspeople

  • Taking Care of the Earth

  • Presidents and American Symbols

First Grade Knowledge Units

  • Fables and Stories

  • The Human Body

  • Different Lands, Similar Stories

  • Early World Civilizations

  • Early American Civilizations

  • Astronomy

  • The History of the Earth

  • Animals and Habitats

  • Fairy Tales

  • A New Nation: American Independence

  • Frontier Explorers

Second Grade Knowledge Units

  • Fairy Tales and Tall Tales

  • Early Asian Civilizations

  • The Ancient Greek Civilization

  • Greek Myths

  • The War of 1812

  • Cycles of Nature

  • Westward Expansion

  • Insects

  • The U.S. Civil War

  • The Human Body

  • Immigration

  • Fighting for a Cause

Grades 3-5 teach the Louisiana Guidebooks Curriculum, made by teachers and for teachers, for whole class instruction. These units are based on varied topics that include text sets (different genres). All students have the opportunity to read, understand, and express their understanding of complex, grade-level texts (www.louisianabelieves.com). Students respond to these units by completing a culminating writing task, which builds throughout each unit. Writing based on The Writing Revolution and FIRE, foundational skills based on the Science of Reading, are also included in daily lessons.  All of the Louisiana ELA standards are included in our daily instruction throughout the year. Assessments are aligned to these standards as well. 

Third Grade Units

  • Cajun Folktales

  • Because of Winn Dixie

  • Louisiana Purchase

Fourth Grade Units

  • Hurricanes

  • Lightning Thief

  • American Revolution

Fifth Grade Units

  • The Birchbark House

  • The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe

  • Shutting Out the Sky


Sixth Grade Units

  • Hatchet

  • Out of the Dust

  • If Stones Could Speak


Seventh Grade Units

  • The Giver

  • Christmas Carol

  • Behind the Scenes


Eight Grade Units

  • Flowers for Algernon

  • The Tell Tale Heart

  • Sugar


English I

  • (NIght)

  • Joy Luck Club

  • Teenage Brain

  • Romeo and Juliet


English II

  • (Of Mice and Men)

  • Hamilton

  • HeLa

  • Application


English III

  • Homeownership

  • Gatsby

  • Friday Night Lights


English IV

  • Artificial Intelligence

  • 1984

  • Hamlet



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