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Our ELA resources integrate literacy skills development with social-emotional learning and civic education practices.


Professional Learning for ELA Educators
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About Our ELA Resources
Designed for grades 6-12, our English Language Arts resources include a wide array of materials that will spark discussion and student engagement.
Our thematic collections feature text sets for multiple grade levels, unit planning guidance, classroom-ready handouts, and more.
We also offer teaching guides for a selection of longer works, poetry lessons, and teaching strategies that prioritize student writing and discussion.
Curriculum Planning & Thematic Collections
Coming of Age in a Complex World

Coming-of-Age Unit Planning Toolkit

Centering Student Voice and Choice: A Book Club Guide

Whole-School Read Guide: Foster a Literacy Community

Back to School: Building Community for Connection and Learning

Title-Specific Teaching Guides
Teaching Night

Teaching Mockingbird

Teaching Brown Girl Dreaming

Teaching Red Scarf Girl

Teaching Farewell to Manzanar

Teaching Warriors Don't Cry

Teaching Enrique's Journey

All-Community Read Guide: Being Heumann and Rolling Warrior

Wonder: A Whole-School Read Planning Guide

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Featured Lessons & Teaching Strategies
How to Bring Spoken Word Poetry into the Classroom

Reflecting on Amanda Gorman's "The Hill We Climb"

Hardship and Hope: Teaching Amanda Gorman’s “New Day’s Lyric”

Sketch to Stretch

Say Something

Levels of Questions

Rapid Writing

Journals in a Facing History Classroom

Big Paper: Building a Silent Conversation

Socratic Seminar

Concentric Circles

Four Corners

Text-to-Text, Text-to-Self, Text-to-World

Connect, Extend, Challenge

Create a Headline


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