ELA
This module harnesses students' inherent desire to read and learn. Students start by exploring museum masterpieces and then dive into texts that show the joy and power books can bring. The EOM task is to design a book cover.
Grade 1 Mod 1 - World of Books
In this informational module, students look at change across time in our country. Students use texts to look at changes in school, home life, transportation and communication. They end the module by choosing one aspect and creating a then/now poster about one change.
Grade K Mod 3 - America, Then and Now
This module lays a foundation for the study of science. Students discover what “senses” are. The EOM task is to write and illustrate a book that shows how readers use their senses to learn from texts
Grade K Mod 1 - Five Senses
“What makes the world fascinating?” is the essential question in this module. Students travel across all seven continents through texts and images and end the module by creating a travel brochure about the continent that they would most like to visit.
Grade K Mod 4 - The Continents
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Students read Walk Two Moons, a novel with strong ties to mythology, to look at how stories convey important life lessons.
Grade 4 Mod 4 - Myth Making
Students study the immigrant experience as well as specific skills for writing fictional texts in this module.
Grade 3 Mod 3 - A New Home
Students are asked to notice the change that happens in the world and in turn, what factors affect change in their own lives through the lens of the four seasons.
Grade 2 Mod 1 - Season of Change
This module asks, “How can the challenges of a hostile environment inspire heroism?” and looks at how the best of human nature often grows in settings in some sort of crisis. The EOM task is a research project about an individual who chose a heroic action during a time of challenge of controversy.
Grade 6 Mod 4 - Courage in Crisis
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This module is rooted in The Phantom Tollbooth and gives students a chance to learn why authors manipulate words to bring their stories to life. In the EOM task, students employ word play to write an “exploded moment” narrative.
Grade 5 Mod 2 - Word Play
Sport has the power to change the world. This module focuses on how sports influence individuals and societies. After studying Jackie Robinson’s story in depth, students research a soccer organization and describe how the organization is using soccer to influence communities.
Grade 5 Mod 4 - Breaking Barriers
Students apply their learning from multiple sources including Hatchett to write their own survival stories. They share these stories in the Author’s Chair celebration which allows them to not only show what they have learned about survival, but also apply what they have learned about telling a good story.
Grade 4 Mod 2 Extreme Settings
There are thousands of versions of the fairy tale that this module is based on. In WW, students dive into diverse traditional cultures and explore how the tale is told from their perspective. At the end of the module, students form opinion pieces about which character they most admire.
Grade 1 Mod 4 - Cinderella Stories
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In this module, students study how the struggle for power shaped the settlement of the New World. Students read Blood on the River as well as Written in Bone, which is a story written from the perspective of a forensic anthropologist studying Jamestown. The EOM task is an argumentative writing assignment about which factors most significantly caused the colony’s decline.
6 Mod 3 - Narrating the Unknown
The end of module task for this module asks students to write an informative essay. In it, students detail how one individual encountered adversity and/or opportunity as a result of WWII.
Grade 7 Mod 2 - Americans All
The essential question for this module is “How can times of crisis affect citizens and society?” Students become immersed in 18th century Philadelphia where they learn about the yellow fever epidemic of 1793. They end the module by analyzing and evaluating the ways that Philadelphians responded to the epidemic
Grade 7 Mod 4 - Fever
Student read Castle Diary, The Canterbury Tales and The Midwife’s Apprentice to prepare to write their own narratives set during the same time period.
Grade 7 Mod 1 - Identity in the Middle Ages
WW is comprehensive, which means it covers these strands of ELA Instruction
Reading (Informational, Literary) Writing, Speaking and Listening, Style and Conventions (or Language)
This Instructional Routines is used to model or experiment with behaviors such as asking thoughtful questions, listening attentively, and sharing ideas.
Fishbowl
This type of assessment is used 2 -3 times per module and assesses the transfer of reading and/or language module learning goals to a new text or a portion of text focused on a topic that has been introduced.
New-Read Assessment
What are the three writing types?
Informative, Narrative, Opinion
List the Wit and Wisdom Lesson Design
Welcome, Launch, Learn, Land, Wrap, Deep Dive
Within and across modules, Wit & Wisdom features four key practices to help students learn how to read a complex text and communicate their understanding of texts. What are these 4 Core Practices?
Questioning
Annotating
Summarizing
Collecting Evidence