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Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Unit: Grade 1: Rumplestiltskin
First graders explore several classic Grimm fairy tales. Students create a Fairy Tales Learning Log to trace the various connections and common ideas across the various tales. They begin to develop an awareness of common traits in fairy...
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Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Unit: Grade 1: Frogs
First graders gather information from a variety of texts to more deeply understand the connections between literary and informational texts. They build on knowledge of the seasons to focus on the life cycles of animals, specifically...
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Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Unit: Grade 2: Thirsty Planet
Second graders learn about the water cycle and the role of water in nature. Through various descriptions of water's journey throughout the world and the lives that depend on it for survival, 2nd graders come to appreciate the importance...
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Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Unit: Grade 2: The Best Place
Second graders explore different types of houses. They study the differences between a house and a home through various texts and learn that a home doesn't have to be a physical place. Students consider how children in various parts of...
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Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Unit: Grade 2: Famous Americans
Second graders learn about famous Americans and their role in history. This builds on students' knowledge of US presidents, national symbols, and the election process. Students study various characteristics of famous Americans, such as...
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Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Unit: Grade 2: Cinderella
Second graders explore versions of the Cinderella tale from various cultures around the world. Students create a Patterns in Cinderella Stories Chart to trace the connections and common ideas across the various tales. They further...
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Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Unit: Grade 2: The Ox Cart Man
Second graders build their knowledge of the agricultural history of the US economy and how families make choices to meet their basic needs. Students come to understand how life changes over time and identify some of the causes of those...
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Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Unit: Grade K: A Is for America
Students read informational and literary texts in order to gather information about people, events, symbols, and ideas that are representative of the United States of America. Students begin to develop an understanding of the United...
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Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Unit: Grade K: Chrysanthemum
Young children are naturally interested in their names, and it is usually the first written language they recognize. Thus, using students' names is a powerful tool for introduction of the alphabet. Students explore their names and the...
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Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Modeling
This strategy helps students understand the expectations for a written task, refine their writing about texts, and improve their language skills, including using standard English grammar, usage, conventions, and vocabulary in writing.
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Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Unit: Grade K: Mama Panya's Pancakes
Students read and retell stories and fables from Africa to determine how the actions of the characters teach lessons about how to act and how not to act. Students learn about various character traits and their antonyms while keeping...
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Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Unit: Grade 1: Duck for President
First graders build on their knowledge of positive character traits and those valued in a good citizen and leader by exploring rules, laws, elections, and the presidency. Through the anchor text, 1st graders discuss the details of the...
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Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Unit: Grade 1: Mooncake
First graders learn factual information about the moon and how light creates shadows. Noting that authors oftentimes use their imaginations to create stories, 1st graders explore how misconceptions and misunderstandings can often be...
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Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Unit: Grade 1: The Year at Maple Hill Farm
First graders learn about change over the course of a year, investigating and exploring the four seasons and what the changing seasons mean for humans and animals. They learn about animal behavior and patterns during the seasons,...
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Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Unit: Grade K: Weather
Students learn about real and imaginary situations by connecting knowledge from nonfiction texts and media sources to events in literary texts. Students develop an awareness of weather and its patterns, how weather affects living things,...
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Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Mini Lessons for Small Group Writing
This strategy helps students refine their writing skills and use grade-level conventions in writing and speaking.
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Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Accountable Talk
This strategy helps students refine their understanding of texts to meet reading expectations, engage in group conversations to meet speaking and listening expectations, and prepare for writing about texts.
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Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Summarizing
This strategy helps students refine their understanding of texts to meet reading expectations and prepare for writing about texts.
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Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Word Displays
This strategy helps students understand vocabulary as the read and refine their language skills in support of writing about texts.
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Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Independent Reading Protocols
During independent reading, students read independently from either a self- or teacher-selected text and then react to the text in their learning logs using one of three protocols.
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Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: Curriculum
Louisiana ELA Guidebooks is an English language arts curriculum for whole-class instruction. Made by teachers for teachers, the guidebook units ensure all students can read, understand, and express their understanding of complex,...
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Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Creating Text Sets for Whole Class Instruction
Learn what makes a strong English language arts (ELA) curriculum by creating text sets for the whole-class instruction.
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Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Guide for Determining Text Complexity
An educator's guide to help determine the level of text complexity.
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Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Ela Guidebooks: How to Use the Guidebooks
A guide to teaching ELA Guidebooks, English language arts curriculum made up of units focused around a collection of texts. Made by teachers for teachers, the guidebook units ensure all students read, understand, and express their...