In this module, students will use literacy skills to build expertise—using reading, writing, listening, speaking, and collaborative skills to build and share deep knowledge about a topic. This focus on research intentionally builds on Module 1, in which students explored the superpowers of reading. Specifically, students will seek evidence of culture, which can be thought of as the story of a group of people constructed through the generations; it can be evidenced through ancient and modern-day customs and traditions. The module will begin with a class study of the culture of Japan: Students will read Magic Tree House: Dragon of the Red Dawn, a book set in ancient Japan, paired with Exploring Countries: Japan, an informational text about modern Japan.

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Grade 3: Module 1 of the EL Education K-8 Language Arts Curriculum. In this module, students build their literacy and social-emotional skills through the analysis of literary and informational texts, as they engage in a study of overcoming different kinds of challenges and obstacles to learning. For more information on getting started with the curriculum, please visit https://curriculum.eleducation.org.

Grade 3: Module 2 of the EL Education K-8 Language Arts Curriculum. In this module, students build their literacy and social-emotional skills through the analysis of literary and informational texts, as they engage in a study of frogs and the adaptations that allow them to survive in different environments. For more information on getting started with the curriculum, please visit https://curriculum.eleducation.org.

Grade 3: Module 3 of the EL Education K-8 Language Arts Curriculum. In this module, students build their literacy and social-emotional skills through the analysis of literary and informational texts, as they engage in a study of what we can learn from literary classics. For more information on getting started with the curriculum, please visit https://curriculum.eleducation.org.

Grade 3: Module 4 of the EL Education K-8 Language Arts Curriculum. In this module, students build their literacy and social-emotional skills through the analysis of literary and informational texts, as they engage in a study of access to clean water around the world. For more information on getting started with the curriculum, please visit https://curriculum.eleducation.org.

Additional Language and Literacy (ALL) Block component of Grade 4: Module 1: Unit 1 of the EL Education K-8 Language Arts Curriculum. The ALL Block is one hour of differentiated small group instruction aligned to the module content, giving students further practice with key literacy skills. This unit's ALL Block curriculum complements the Grade 4 module Poetry, Poets, and Becoming Writers. For more information on the ALL Block, please visit https://curriculum.eleducation.org/about-k-2-labs-and-ALL-block.

Additional Language and Literacy (ALL) Block component of Grade 4: Module 1: Unit 1 of the EL Education K-8 Language Arts Curriculum. The ALL Block is one hour of differentiated small group instruction aligned to the module content, giving students further practice with key literacy skills. This unit's ALL Block curriculum complements the Grade 4 module Poetry, Poets, and Becoming Writers. For more information on the ALL Block, please visit https://curriculum.eleducation.org/about-k-2-labs-and-ALL-block.

Additional Language and Literacy (ALL) Block component of Grade 4: Module 1: Unit 1 of the EL Education K-8 Language Arts Curriculum. The ALL Block is one hour of differentiated small group instruction aligned to the module content, giving students further practice with key literacy skills. This unit's ALL Block curriculum complements the Grade 4 module Poetry, Poets, and Becoming Writers. For more information on the ALL Block, please visit https://curriculum.eleducation.org/about-k-2-labs-and-ALL-block.

Additional Language and Literacy (ALL) Block component of Grade 4: Module 2: Unit 1 of the EL Education K-8 Language Arts Curriculum. The ALL Block is one hour of differentiated small group instruction aligned to the module content, giving students further practice with key literacy skills. This unit's ALL Block curriculum complements the Grade 4 module Animal Defense Mechanisms. For more information on the ALL Block, please visit https://curriculum.eleducation.org/about-k-2-labs-and-ALL-block.

Additional Language and Literacy (ALL) Block component of Grade 4: Module 2: Unit 2 of the EL Education K-8 Language Arts Curriculum. The ALL Block is one hour of differentiated small group instruction aligned to the module content, giving students further practice with key literacy skills. This unit's ALL Block curriculum complements the Grade 4 module Animal Defense Mechanisms. For more information on the ALL Block, please visit https://curriculum.eleducation.org/about-k-2-labs-and-ALL-block.

Additional Language and Literacy (ALL) Block component of Grade 4: Module 3: Unit 1 of the EL Education K-8 Language Arts Curriculum. The ALL Block is one hour of differentiated small group instruction aligned to the module content, giving students further practice with key literacy skills. This unit's ALL Block curriculum complements the Grade 4 module The American Revolution. For more information on the ALL Block, please visit https://curriculum.eleducation.org/about-k-2-labs-and-ALL-block.

Additional Language and Literacy (ALL) Block component of Grade 4: Module 3: Unit 2 of the EL Education K-8 Language Arts Curriculum. The ALL Block is one hour of differentiated small group instruction aligned to the module content, giving students further practice with key literacy skills. This unit's ALL Block curriculum complements the Grade 4 module The American Revolution. For more information on the ALL Block, please visit https://curriculum.eleducation.org/about-k-2-labs-and-ALL-block.

Additional Language and Literacy (ALL) Block component of Grade 4: Module 2: Unit 3 of the EL Education K-8 Language Arts Curriculum. The ALL Block is one hour of differentiated small group instruction aligned to the module content, giving students further practice with key literacy skills. This unit's ALL Block curriculum complements the Grade 4 module Animal Defense Mechanisms. For more information on the ALL Block, please visit https://curriculum.eleducation.org/about-k-2-labs-and-ALL-block.

Additional Language and Literacy (ALL) Block component of Grade 4: Module 3: Unit 3 of the EL Education K-8 Language Arts Curriculum. The ALL Block is one hour of differentiated small group instruction aligned to the module content, giving students further practice with key literacy skills. This unit's ALL Block curriculum complements the Grade 4 module The American Revolution. For more information on the ALL Block, please visit https://curriculum.eleducation.org/about-k-2-labs-and-ALL-block.

Additional Language and Literacy (ALL) Block component of Grade 4: Module 4: Unit 1 of the EL Education K-8 Language Arts Curriculum. The ALL Block is one hour of differentiated small group instruction aligned to the module content, giving students further practice with key literacy skills. This unit's ALL Block curriculum complements the Grade 4 module Responding to Inequality: Ratifying the 19th Amendment. For more information on the ALL Block, please visit https://curriculum.eleducation.org/about-k-2-labs-and-ALL-block.

Additional Language and Literacy (ALL) Block component of Grade 4: Module 4: Unit 2 of the EL Education K-8 Language Arts Curriculum. The ALL Block is one hour of differentiated small group instruction aligned to the module content, giving students further practice with key literacy skills. This unit's ALL Block curriculum complements the Grade 4 module Responding to Inequality: Ratifying the 19th Amendment. For more information on the ALL Block, please visit https://curriculum.eleducation.org/about-k-2-labs-and-ALL-block.

Additional Language and Literacy (ALL) Block component of Grade 4: Module 4: Unit 3 of the EL Education K-8 Language Arts Curriculum. The ALL Block is one hour of differentiated small group instruction aligned to the module content, giving students further practice with key literacy skills. This unit's ALL Block curriculum complements the Grade 4 module Responding to Inequality: Ratifying the 19th Amendment. For more information on the ALL Block, please visit https://curriculum.eleducation.org/about-k-2-labs-and-ALL-block.

Module 1A focuses on building community by making connections between visual imagery, oral accounts, poetry and written texts of various cultures with a focus on the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) culture. Students will determine a central idea and demonstrate how gathering information from a variety of sources can help us understand a central idea more fully.| Module 1 also reinforces reading fluency, close text analysis, explanatory paragraph writing, and presenting to peers. The module reinforces the fact that Native Americans—specifically the Iroquois (Haudenosaunee, People of the Longhouse) —were early inhabitants of the New York region and state, and continue to contribute to the region’s history.

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In this eight-week module, students will learn about poetry and poets through close reading and writing to learn. Throughout the module, they will determine the characteristics of poetry and consider what inspires writers and poets. Students begin in Unit 1 by reading the first half of the novel Love That Dog by Sharon Creech. Students follow the main character, Jack, as he learns about poetry and begins to write his own. Students closely read and analyze poems Jack reads, including “The Red Wheelbarrow” by William Carlos Williams and “Stopping by Woods on a Snowing Evening” by Robert Frost. Throughout this unit, students track what Jack is learning about poetry alongside their own learning though these close readings. They also experiment with writing their own poetry inspired by their reading. Students practice summarizing the events in the novel and discuss how the main character’s attitude toward poetry begins to change in this half of the novel. In Unit 2, students engage in deeper analysis of Jack’s character and his inspiration through extended discussion prompts. They also learn to write informational paragraphs in order to summarize larger portions of the text. For the mid-unit 2 assessment, they write a summary of the entire novel.

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In this eight-week module, students explore animal defense mechanisms. They build proficiency in writing an informative piece, examining the defense mechanisms of one specific animal about which they build expertise. Students also build proficiency in writing a narrative piece about this animal. In Unit 1, students build background knowledge on general animal defenses through close readings of several informational texts. Students will read closely to practice drawing inferences as they begin their research and use a science journal to make observations and synthesize information. Students will continue to use the science journal, using the millipede as a whole class model. They begin to research an expert animal in preparation to write about this animal in Units 2 and 3, again using the science journal. In Unit 2, students will continue to build expertise about their animal and its defense mechanisms, writing the first part of the final performance task—an informative piece describing their animal, the threats to its survival, and how it is equipped to deal with them. With their new knowledge about animal defenses from Unit 1, students will read informational texts closely, using the same science journal to synthesize information about their animal. Unit 3 allows students to apply their research from Units 1 and 2 to write a narrative piece about their animal that incorporates their research. This narrative will take the format of a choose-your-own-adventure. For their performance task, students will plan, draft, and revise the introduction and one choice ending of the narrative with the support of both peer and teacher feedback. The second choice ending will be planned, written, and revised on-demand for the end of unit assessment.

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