English

K-5 ELA

The Arkansas English Language Arts Standards for Grades K-12 have been developed to prepare students for success after high school. Students who are successful in college and careers have attained particular literacy capacities. These students

•demonstrate independence;

•build strong content knowledge;

•respond to the varying demands of audience, task, purpose, and discipline;

•comprehend as well as critique;

•value evidence;

•use technology and digital media strategically and capably;

•come to understand other perspectives and cultures.

Benchmark Workshop

Meets new literacy expectations and integrates curriculum with vertical alignment of unit topics.

Three literacy modules that can work together... or stand on their own.

  • Phonics and Word Study Workshop: provides explicit instruction and differentiated practice through authentic reading and writing experiences and multisensory activities. *

  • Reader's Workshop: provides whole-group mini-lessons, leveled texts for small group, and resources to support independent reading and conferring.

  • Writer's Workshop: provides mini-lessons on the writing process, the craft of writing, and responses to reading, with support for small-group instruction, independent writing, and conferring.

myON reader is a personalized literacy environment that engages students at all reading levels by providing the largest integrated library of digital books.

Lexia® Core5® Reading is an adaptive blended learning program that accelerates the development of literacy skills for students of all abilities, helping them make that critical shift from learning to read to reading to learn.

From phonics and reading comprehension to writing strategies and more, IXL helps learners develop the communication skills needed for success in school, college, and career.

6-12 ELA

The Arkansas English Language Arts Standards for Grades K-12 have been developed to prepare students for success after high school. Students who are successful in college and careers have attained particular literacy capacities. These students

•demonstrate independence;

•build strong content knowledge;

•respond to the varying demands of audience, task, purpose, and discipline;

•comprehend as well as critique;

•value evidence;

•use technology and digital media strategically and capably;

•come to understand other perspectives and cultures.

myPerspectives is a powerful English language arts curriculum for Grades 6–12 that values the perspective of the learner, collectively and individually, and provides next-gen learning experiences that promote higher achievement and develop the competencies needed for college and career readiness. Interactive learning blends print and technology in a student-centered, teacher-inspired classroom. This dynamic Savvas program creates an interactive, engaging, and relevant learning environment through readings, meaningful activities, and purposeful performance tasks. myPerspectives encourages social collaboration as well as student ownership of learning through goal setting, choice, and reflection.

NoRedInk helps students practice and apply writing and grammar skills through a variety of interactive activities! Students work with engaging and often humorous sentences that incorporate their favorite characters, musicians, athletes, books, movies, sports teams, and celebrities to practice skills.

Membean is a vocabulary program that builds word consciousness. Personalized, differentiated instruction — automatically tailored to your skill level — helps you achieve lasting outcomes by prioritizing higher order thinking over memorization.

CommonLit provides an online reading program that is 100% free to students and teachers. In CommonLit library, you can find high-quality reading passages for ELA, social studies, and STEM subjects. Support all students with our read aloud and translate tools, as well as our scaffolded guided reading mode. Promote deep understanding with our standards-aligned assessment questions.