PROGRAM FEATURES
The William & Mary Language Arts, 3rd Edition has added new features to enrich the units including technology integration, more differentiated products, additional alternate novels and activities, and a culturally-responsive teaching guide. The updated literature means the curriculum is more relevant to today’s students, focusing on diversity and representation of authors, characters, settings, and topics. The result is a program that maintains the reputation of William & Mary’s research-based curriculum framework and the integrity of their core teaching philosophy.
Activities throughout the William & Mary units are organized around broad, interdisciplinary concepts and content-based thinking models. As an example, the concept of change was chosen as a unifying theme for many of the units based on its ease of application to various areas of language arts and other areas of study. Students use the following set of core generalizations about change derived from extensive reading on the concept in philosophy, sociology, and science, as a starting point:
- Change is everywhere.
- Change happens over time.
- Change may be positive or negative.
- Some changes are caused by people, and other changes happen naturally.
- Some changes can be predicted, while others are unpredictable.
Assessment
Assessments are ongoing throughout the units and are comprised of multiple formative and summative options including pre and post assessments for literature, writing, and grammar. As well as rubrics for teacher/student conferences, self/peer/teacher evaluations, journals, and discussions.
This unit is organized around the study of figurative language, including simile, metaphor, and personification. The unit explores the idea that language can change the way we think about the world by creating new images and connections in our minds.
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Old Elm Speaks Tradebook
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It Looked Like Spilt Milk Tradebook
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Clementine Tradebook
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A Gift for Amma: Market Day in India Tradebook
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Change Sings: A Children's Anthem Tradebook
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Owl Moon Tradebook
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Amelia Bedelia Goes Camping Tradebook
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This is The Rope: A Story From The Great Migration Tradebook
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My Day with The Panye Tradebook
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Another Tradebook
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Hike Tradebook
CUSTOMIZED SHOPPING FOR:
Beyond Words
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This unit gives students the task to decipher (figure out) the patterns, similarities, and differences of letters, word families and origins, sounds, and languages. The unit explores the amazing variety languages around the world, why human language is unique, and why it helps you think in different ways.
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Sequoyah: The Cherokee Man Who Gave His People Writing Tradebook
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Manana, Iguana Tradebook
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One Tiny Turtle Tradebook
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Stacey's Extraordinary Words Tradebook
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Thank You, Omu! Tradebook
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Everybody in the Red Brick Building Tradebook
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Thesaurus Rex Tradebook
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Fry Bread: A Native American Family Story Tradebook
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The Word Collector Tradebook
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Worldly Words
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This unit provides students the opportunity to be exposed to many ideas about explorers and exploration that may help them to think in a different way as they explore the world inside and around them.
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Dream Animals Tradebook
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The Lightning Thief Tradebook
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The Tale of Despereaux Tradebook
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Save Me A Seat Tradebook
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The Front Desk Tradebook
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Hello Universe Tradebook
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Fish In A Tree Tradebook
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Freedom Soup Tradebook
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Your Place in the Universe Tradebook
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Between Us and Abuela: A Family Story from the Border Tradebook
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More Parts Tradebook
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How To Be A Lion Tradebook
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Explore, Discover, Reveal
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This unit provides students with the reading selections and the instructional activities to intrigue and challenge them to think about time and its role in their lives.
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CUSTOMIZED SHOPPING FOR:
Mind Your Time
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Light Shining Through the Mist: A Photobiography of Dian Fossey Tradebook
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Our Eleanor: A Scrapbook Look at Eleanor Roosevelt's Remarkable Life Tradebook
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Helen's Eyes: A Photobiography of Annie Sullivan, Helen Keller's Teacher Tradebook
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The Lost Garden Tradebook
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How I Came To Be A Writer Tradebook
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My Rotten Redheaded Older Brother Tradebook
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Escape!: The Story of the Great Houdini Tradebook
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The Wall Tradebook
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Tom Tradebook
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The Important Book Tradebook
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Knots in My Yo-yo String Tradebook
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Tar Beach Tradebook
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Enchanted Air Two Cultures, Two Wings: A Memoir Tradebook
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Inside Out and Back Again Tradebook
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Brown Girl Dreaming Tradebook
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Ugly Tradebook
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Calling the Doves/El Canto de las palomas Tradebook
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When Marian Sang Tradebook
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Tomas and the Library Lady Tradebook
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A Different Pond Tradebook
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Autobiographies and Memoirs
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This unit offers students the chance to compare and contrast their own lives with those of others. The unit explores social and historical issues by studying people, historical time periods and events, and students’ own lives. Novels, short stories, poetry, art, and music will be the avenues for addressing unit goals. Students will be given numerous opportunities for reading, writing, listening, and speaking.
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CUSTOMIZED SHOPPING FOR:
Courage
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This unit provides students an opportunity to learn about the search through the ages for utopia and the struggles to grasp and maintain it on both personal and societal levels, while examining why ideas about utopia undergo change.
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CUSTOMIZED SHOPPING FOR:
Utopia
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