ch. Through the study of a variety of text types and media, students build knowledge, analyze ideas, delineate arguments, and develop writing, collaboration, and communication skills. The lessons within the modules are linked explicitly to the Common Core Learning Standards, and provide a rigorous and pedagogically-sound approach for how to bring the standards to life through thoughtful planning, adaption, and instruction.

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Grade 11 ELA Curriculum Map: The New York State grade 11 curriculum modules continue to develop students’ skills in analyzing complex literary and informational texts.

Grades 9-12 ELA Curriculum Map: Click the links below to download the curriculum map for grades 9 - 12 ELA.

Prefatory Material: This is a comprehensive English Language Arts curriculum designed to fit the demands and instructional shifts of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS).

Scaffolding Instruction for English Language Learners, Resource Guides for English Language Arts: provides guidance to educators on how to take the curriculum materials on EngageNY and provide additional scaffolds for ELL students according to their level of English language proficiency.

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The Developing Core Proficiencies Units are an integrated set of English Language Arts/Literacy units spanning grades 6-12. The series is comprised of four 3-week units at each grade level that provide direct instruction on a set of literacy proficiencies at the heart of the Common Core State Standards: reading closely and researching in order to develop and communicate evidence-based claims and arguments about complex texts and topics.

Literacy Toolbox

The OE Core Literacy Proficiencies Toolbox is a collection adaptable resources for building literacy proficiency. While these handouts, graphic organizers, tools, checklists and rubrics ar

Module 2 - Figurative language and rhetoric