English Language Arts

Elementary

The elementary page contains all ARC unit overviews for grades K-5. These overviews provide links to daily planning templates and additional resources to support Tier 1 instruction within classrooms.

K-2 teachers will also find the scope and sequence for Magnetics Reading Foundation. Other resources will be added throughout the year.

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Middle School

The middle school page contains all ARC unit overviews for grades 6-8. These overviews provide links to daily planning templates and additional resources to supportTier 1 instruction within classrooms.

Other resources will be added throughout the year.

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High School

The high school page contains Studysync Essential Pathways and MLL Support Guides for grades 9-12. These guides contain pacing and additional teaching resources.

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ARC Core Texts and Themes

American Reading Company (ARC) is the core ELA curriculum used in grades K-8. Here, you can view each unit's themes as well as the core text(s) used in each unit.

Gr 2-5 English Core Texts

	Unit 1	Unit 2	Unit 3	Unit 4
Grade 2	A (poetry): The Bug in Teacher's Coffee, 9780064443050 A (personal narratives): *The Stories Julian Tells, 9780394828923 (this is the current A core text) A (personal narratives): My Vida Loca, 9781479587209	A: Bugs in their Ecosystems Exemplar Pack B: Diary of a Spider, 9780062233004 C: Diary of a Fly, 9780062232984	A: Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?, 9781640533523 B: Dear Beast (#1), 9780823448432 C: Best Friends Forever: And More True Stories of Animal Friendships, 9781426309359	A: A Field Guide to Your Community, 9781640533639 B: Firefighters Then and Now, 9781640539150 C: Gabby Gets it Together (PAWS #1), 9780593351864
Grade 3	A (paired core text): Dinosaurs Before Dark (Magic Tree House #1), 9780679824114 A (paired core text): The Knight at Dawn (Magic Tree House #2), 9780679824121	A: Weather & Climate Exemplar Pack B: Poems for the Seasons, 9781499483918 C: Rescue on the Outer Banks, 9780876148150	A: If the Shoe Fits and Other Glass Slipper Stories From Around the World, 9781640532359 B: Pushing up the Sky: Seven Native American Plays for Children, 9781984814838 C: What Is Culture?, 9780778746508	A: Save the Ocean, 9781640532960 B: Sea Turtles and Their Habitats, 9781640539297 C: Shark Shivers: Tire Eaters, Nap Monsters, and Other Perfect Predators, 9781640539471
Grade 4	A (paired core text): Alvin Ho: Allergic to Girls, School, and Other Scary Things, 9780375849305 A (paired core text): What Are You Afraid Of?, 9781640533530	A: Animal Adaptations Exemplar Pack B: Super Spiders, 9781640539969 C: Strange Place to Call Home, 9781452141251	A: Away West, Scraps of Time 1879, 9780142406885 B: Runs with Courage, 9781585369850 OR May B., 9780385374149 C: Into the West: Causes and Effects of U.S. Westward Expansion, 9781476534039	A: Who's the Goat? The Greatest of All Time, 9781640539495 B: Where Soccer Explains (Rules) the World (Soccer School #1), 9781536233971 C: Becoming Muhammad Ali, 9780316498173
Grade 5	A (paired core text): Amazing Aliens: The Science of Astrobiology, 9781640533554 A (paired core text): My Teacher Is an Alien (#1), 9781416903345	A: Ecosystems Exemplar Pack B: The Lamp, the Ice, and the Boat Called Fish: Based on a True Story, 9780618548958 C: Pass the Energy, Please!, 9781584690023	A: Storm Runners, 9780545081771 B: Shipwreck Island (Shipwreck Island #1), 9781250027788 C: Five Epic Disasters (I Survived True Stories #1), 9780545782241	A: *Know It All: Space, 9781502608826 (this is the current A core text) A: How Many Planets Circle the Sun? and other questions about Our Solar System, 9781454906698 B: Living on Mars: Can You Colonize a Planet?, 9781538322987 C: In the Red, 9780062894427
		Please note that your district has already received the core text "A" listed here for each unit, except where noted with an asterisk in Grade 2 Unit 1 and Grade 5 Unit 4. The core texts listed "B" and "C" are additional standard cores that currently accompany that unit. Select schools have purchased core texts B & C over the last several years. This varies by school, by grade, and by unit. Titles are subject to change based on publisher availability.

Gr 2-5 Spanish Core Texts

	Unit 1	Unit 2	Unit 3	Unit 4
Grade 2	A (poetry): A la rueda, rueda...Antología de folclore latinoamericano, 9788420744117 A (personal narratives): ¿Seguiremos siendo amigos?, 9786070129506	A: Bichos en sus ecosistemas Exemplar Pack B: La oruga muy impaciente, 9781338601138 C: La abeja de más, 9781682921470	A: Cartas a Ratón Pérez, 9788466753753 B: ¿Quién le teme al lobo feroz?, 9781648511196 C: Rurrú, camarón: Antología de poetas latinoamericanos, 9788483435083	A: Tu comunidad: Una guía completa, 9781640533318 B: Bomberos antes y ahora, 9781640539235 C: Saraí y el significado de lo genial, 9781338330557
Grade 3	A (paired core text): Una momia al amanecer, 9781930332515 A (paired core text): Una Tarde En El Amazonas, 9781930332676	A: Estudiamos el tiempo y el clima, 9781612369242 B: Los monstruos del clima, 9781613918708 C: Lo que dice el viento, 9788469835968	A: Tres Eran, Tres, 9781640533547 B: El ascenso del rey enano, 9780593312698 C: ¿Qué es cultura?, 9781427132772	A: El océano en peligro, 9781640538894 B: Las tortugas marinas y sus hábitats, 9781640539556 C: Tiburones escalofriantes: Comedores de llantas, monstruos de la siesta y otros depredadores perfectos, 9781640539617
Grade 4	A (paired core text): ¡Sin resolver! Lugares misteriosos, 9781433370618 A (paired core text): La tumba misteriosa, 9788483431962	A: Increíble pero real: Animales extraños, 9781433370946 B: Las super arañas, 9781648510007 C: Animales, 9788491450351	A: De cómo tía Lola aprendió a enseñar, 9780375857935 B: Como pez en el árbol, 9781644737156 C: Una mano al corazon: Mejorando las comunidades, 9781433370991	A: En la cima: Mejor deportista de todos los tiempos, 9781648511271 B: Locos por el fútbol: Temporada 1, 9788416700776 C: El Campamento Antibalones (Alexia Superfutbolista), 9781644737880
Grade 5	A (paired core text): Cómo mantenernos informados, 9781477769225 A (paired core text): Siete reporteros y un periódico, 9780547136899	A: ¿Cómo forman un ecosistema los organismos y sus medios ambientes?, 9780544078628 B: Animal Poems of the Iguazu / Animalario del Iguazu, 9780892392995 C: Un día más y otras historias: Cuentos sobre animales en peligro de extincion, 9789942193643	A: Mi rincón en la montaña, 9780140381818 B: La selva, 9781534429307 C: Las personas y el planeta, 9781425846886	A: Siglo XXI: Misterios del espacio sideral, 9781433371332 B: ¡Gracias, NASA!, 9781627173292 C: Cuenta nueve estrellas, 9788469848609
		Please note that your district has already received the core text "A" listed here for each unit. The core texts listed "B" and "C" are additional standard cores that currently accompany that unit. Select schools have purchased core texts B & C over the last several years. This varies by school, by grade, and by unit. Titles are subject to change based on publisher availability.

Gr 6-8 English Core Texts

	Unit 1	Unit 2	Unit 3	Unit 4
Grade 6	A (paired core text): Found (The Missing #1)), 9781416954217 (this is the current A core text) A (paired core text): Gone Missing: A Book of Strange Disappearances and Unexplained Events, 9781897563960 (this is the current A core text) A (paired core text): Storm Runner, The (Storm Runner #1), 9781368023603 A (paired core text): Daily Life in the Maya Civilization, 9781484625811	Chile, 9781432952228 (Note: This title is currently out of print. We could potentially look into identifying a new/replacement title if desired.)	End of Days: Doomsday Myths Around the World, 9781515766308	Ancient Governments, 9780789158895
Grade 7	A (paired core text): Heat, 9780142407578 A (paired core text): Money in Sports, 9781484683170	George vs. George: The American Revolution as Seen from Both Sides, 9781426300424	Bull Run, 9780064405881	Which Way to the Wild West?: Everything Your Schoolbooks Didn't Tell You About America's Westward Expansion, 9781250075765
Grade 8	A (paired core text): Tentacles (Cryptid Hunters #2) , 9780545178167 (this is the current A core text) A (paired core text): Searching for the Loch Ness Monster, 9781448847723 (this is the current A core text) A (paired core text): Daring Pony Express Riders: True Tales of the Wild West, 9781464400315 A (paired core text): Black Storm Comin', 9780689871382	Rhode Island, the Ocean State, 9781502644541	*Flygirl, 9780142417256 (this is the current core text) Full Cicada Moon, 9780147516015	Painless American Government, 9780764126017 (Note: This title is currently out of print. We could potentially look into identifying a new/replacement title if desired.)
		Please note that your district has already received the core texts listed here for each unit, except where noted with an asterisk in Grade 6 Unit 1, Grade 8 Unit 1, and Grade 8 Unit 3. Titles are subject to change based on publisher availability.

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English Language Arts

Elementary

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ARC Core Texts and Themes

Gr 2-5 English Core Texts

Gr 2-5 English Core Texts

Gr 2-5 Spanish Core Texts

Gr 2-5 Spanish Core Texts

Gr 6-8 English Core Texts

Gr 6-8 English Core Texts

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