Curriculum Changes for 2020-2021
In an effort to create a more cohesive experience for our students district wide, new curriculum will be implemented in the Fall of 2020 for grades 6-8. All DMPS elementary schools began implementing EL materials beginning in the Fall of 2019, creating a full ELA curriculum scope and sequence K-8!
Why EL? Why Now?
What changes will occur?
In an effort to create a more cohesive experience for our students district wide, new curriculum will be implemented in the Fall of 2020 for grades 6-8. All DMPS elementary schools began implementing EL materials beginning in the Fall of 2019, creating a full ELA curriculum scope and sequence K-8!
Why EL? Why Now?
- Expeditionary Learning, or EL provides comprehensive curriculum K-8 that aligns Common Core Standards with engaging, relevant, and cross-curricular performance assessments that will engage every student in grade-level complex texts.
- Common guiding questions and anchor texts will create a cohesive student experience that will better serve our feeder patterns and mobile student population.
- Vertical articulation will more clearly outline the nuances in how the standards develop over the student’s K-12 educational experience.
- The materials provide ready-to-use resources and connections for students needing language supports or for Gifted and Talented.
What changes will occur?
- Scales have been redesigned to better serve the reporting of the new units and the Shifts in the Core.
- Required texts will be purchased for every classroom in classroom sets. These materials will not need to be returned to Central Stores.
- Optional or Supporting texts will be available for purchase by buildings in service of the guiding questions.
- Teachers will have the flexibility to follow the daily lesson plans or adjust instruction around the guiding questions and required texts. ALL students will be expected to complete the Common Assessments for each topic as part of the BOE.
Curriculum Resources:
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Additional Resources
Language Arts 6 is primarily supported by the 2012 Houghton Mifflin Harcourt JOURNEYS textbook and supplemented by the 2012 Prentice Hall Writing Coach Grade 6 textbook. Additional resources, as compiled by DMPS teachers, are listed below.
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Useful Links (provided by teachers)
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