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Carlisle proposes revised seventh- and eighth-grade ELA curriculum emphasizing collections, full-length texts and student choice
Summary
Carlisle Area School District English language arts program supervisor Keeley McGehan presented revised seventh- and eighth-grade curriculum documents that organize instruction around "collections" integrating reading, writing, speaking/listening and grammar; the documents also retain multiple full-length text studies and a literature-circles unit to give students choice.
Carlisle Area School District English language arts program supervisor Keeley McGehan presented revised curriculum documents for seventh- and eighth-grade ELA, saying the materials are intended to finalize the district's 6'to'12 English sequence and to give teachers a clearer, usable guide.
McGehan described the documents as organized around collections that group the four ELA strands'reading, writing, speaking/listening and grammar and usage'so teachers can see reading assignments and aligned writing and speaking tasks together. "No blood, but lots of sweat and sometimes tears," McGehan said of the work that produced the documents.
The revisions follow the structure introduced in the district's sixth-grade…
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