• ELA Curriculum

    Benjamin Franklin uses the EL Curriculum for Kindergarten through eighth grade.

    The EL Education K-8 Language Arts curriculum is a comprehensive, standards-based literacy program that engages teachers and students through compelling, real-world content. Created by teachers for teachers, our highly acclaimed curriculum draws on EL Education's 25 years of experience in engaging teachers and students in active and meaningful learning.

    We promote a three-dimensional view of student achievement--mastery of knowledge and skills, character, and high-quality work--that offers a vision for education we would want for every child and provides the "north star" for all of our work.

    Grades K-2

    Each module in grades K-2 is comprised of two one-hour blocks of content-based literacy (Module Lessons and K-2 Labs) and the third hour of structured phonics (K-2 Reading Foundations Skills Block). Together, these three hours of curriculum teach and formally assess all strands of the Language Arts standards for each grade level. 

    Modules Include

    1. Content-based Literacy
    2. Reading Foundations Skills Block
    3. Module Lessons and Labs

     Grades 3-5

     Each module in our grades 3-5 curriculum consists of two one-hour blocks of content-based literacy instruction. Together, these two hours of curriculum teach and formally assess all strands of the Language Arts standards for each grade level.

    Modules Include

    1. Content-Based Literacy
    2. Life Science Modules
    3. Module Lessons and Additional Language and Literacy Block

    Grades 6-8

     Each module in our grades 6-8 second edition curriculum consists of a 45-minute block of content-based literacy instruction. Built to the needs of middle school learners, our new block teaches and assesses all of the Language Arts standards for each grade level.

     Modules Include

    1. Content-based literacy
    2. Module lessons

     

    Math

    Benjamin Franklin utilizes Eureka Math which was intelligently designed to teach math as a coherent body of knowledge that follows the proper learning progressions required for true math fluency, and not just a set of skills. A curriculum that would instill deep, conceptual understanding that students could build on as high as they wanted to while also allowing them to find the joy in the subject.  The goal is to help all students become fluent in mathematics. Fluency goes beyond just knowing how a particular process can be used to solve a problem. It also requires understanding why that process works. With this curriculum, students learn to think, strategize and solve problems.

     

     

    References

    EL Education Curriculum. (n.d.). Retrieved August 21, 2020, from https://curriculum.eleducation.org/

    Great Minds: Math: Overview. (n.d.). Retrieved August 21, 2020, from https://greatminds.org/math