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Board approves revised middle school ELA aligned to science-of-reading and open-source curriculum
Summary
Wallingford approved a new 6-8 English language arts curriculum that adapts an open-source CommonLit360 model and incorporates science-of-reading practices, formative assessments and research units.
The Wallingford Board of Education on June 2 approved a revised middle school English language arts curriculum for grades 6 through 8 that emphasizes the science of reading and uses an adapted open-source curriculum.
Carrie Logaddio, secondary humanities coordinator, said the department spent the last 18 months studying upper-grade shifts informed by the science of reading and adapted CommonLit360 to include Wallingford's morphology, grammar and choice-reading components. The curriculum presents five units per grade that incorporate complex texts, common formative assessments, multimedia and scaffolded supports. Each grade includes a research unit: grade 6 (changing oceans), grade 7 (social media: risks and rewards) and grade 8 (contact sports: worth the risk), Logaddio said.
"The middle school ELA department spent a significant amount of time over the last year and a half studying some of the shifts from the science of reading in the upper grades," Logaddio told the board. Board members asked clarifying questions about research expectations; Logaddio said units are aligned and that research skills are coordinated with library standards.
The board approved the revised middle school ELA curriculum by consensus. Curriculum staff said implementation will include teacher collaboration time and formative checks on pacing.
