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A new curriculum in English for DCSD Middle Schools
StudySync offers a complete ELA curriculum designed to meet the rigorous academic needs of today’s classroom. This ELA curriculum is designed to engage every student, because every student deserves the same opportunity and access in the classroom, regardless of their native language, learning level, or physical, social, and emotional ability.
StudySync provides an unparalleled selection of culturally diverse literature and nonfiction texts, ensuring students see themselves in the literature they’re reading, as well as learn about others. Not only will students be excited to read, but these high-interest contemporary works serve as access points into more complex, canonical texts. At the foundation of the instruction is high-quality, complex text and the practice of close reading. Achieved through repeated reading, annotation, teacher-facilitated, analytical questioning, and discussion, close reading helps students unlock meaning in any complex text.
"I am very discouraged, what shall I do?" asked the student.
"Encourage others", replied the teacher.
Even when you are struggling, you are not a burden to me.