EL Education Units (6-8)

Start Here! See our Getting Designated ELD Started - Secondary guide for an overview and links about all things Designated ELD including: scheduling, requirements, curriculum, and professional learning.

Getting Designated ELD Started - Secondary

OUSD educators have created Designated ELD lessons that align to the EL Education curriculum for grades 6-8. Our approach amplifies the content students engage with in ELA and our vision aims to:

better meet the goals stated in the ELA/ELD framework of connecting ELD to content (ELA)
focus on the ELD standards that will support language development AND progress in the content (like ELA /literacy CCSS) standards.
support students both to learn content and language with this approach.

These are DRAFT materials developed by OUSD teachers for OUSD teachers, not yet a complete core ELD program. Credit for this work goes to our talented and dedicated team of educators including: Curt Douglas, Jana Maiuri, Jamie Knowles, Katin Lind, Kristi Leunig, Shelley Goulder, Molly Nicol, Shula Bien, Malinda Morales, Jen Joyce, Christi Carpenter, and Nina Portugal.

See D-ELD Scope and Sequence for 6-8 Teachers of EL Education in OUSD for links to each module's scope and sequence.

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ELD Lessons Aligned to EL Education content

Sixth Grade (click on the arrow)

UNIT ZERO
COMMON MODULE 1: GREEK MYTHOLOGY
Module Plan & Scope and Sequence
Unit 1 | Unit 2 | Unit 3 (MP 1&2) The Lightning Thief Fluency Passages
COMMON MODULE 2: AMERICAN INDIAN BOARDING SCHOOLS
Scope and Sequence|Module Plan
Unit 1 | Unit 2 | Unit 3 (MP 5&6)
RECOMMENDED MODULE 3: REMARKABLE ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN SPACE

Scope and Sequence | Module Plan
Unit 1 | Unit 2 | Unit 3 (MP 3&4) Hidden Figures Fluency Passages

ALTERNATE MODULE: CRITICAL PROBLEMS & DESIGN SOLUTIONS
Scope and Sequence
Unit 1 | Unit 2 | Unit 3

Seventh Grade

UNIT ZERO
COMMON MODULE 1: THE LOST CHILDREN OF SUDAN
Module Plan & Scope and Sequence
Unit 1 | Unit 2 | Unit 3 (MP 1&2)

A Long Walk to Water Fluency Passages

COMMON MODULE 2: EPIDEMICS
Scope and Sequence | Module Plan
Unit 1 | Unit 2 | Unit 3 (MP 3&4)

Patient Zero Fluency Passages

RECOMMENDED MODULE 3: THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
Scope and Sequence | Module Plan
Unit 1 | Unit 2 | Unit 3 (MP 5&6) One Last Word Fluency Passages
ALTERNATE MODULE: PLASTIC POLLUTION
Scope and Sequence
Unit 1 | Unit 2 | Unit 3

Eighth Grade

UNIT ZERO
COMMON MODULE 1: FOLKLORE OF LATIN AMERICA (MP 1&2)
Module Plan & Scope and Sequence
Unit 1 | Unit 2 | Unit 3

Summer of the Mariposa's Fluency Passages

COMMON MODULE 2: LESSONS FROM JAPANESE AMERICAN INTERNMENT
Scope and Sequence | Module Plan Unit 1 | Unit 2 | Unit 3 (MP 3&4)
RECOMMENDED MODULE 3: VOICES OF THE HOLOCAUST
Scope and Sequence | Module Plan
Unit 1 | Unit 2 | Unit 3 (MP 5&6)
ALTERNATE MODULE 4: FOOD CHOICES
Scope and Sequence
Unit 1 | Unit 2 | Unit 3