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Report Overview
Ratings Snapshot
| Gateway | 6 | 7 | 8 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gateway 1 | |||
| Gateway 2 | |||
| Gateway 3 |
ELA 6-8 Overview
The instructional materials reviewed for 6-8 meet expectations for alignment and usability in each grade. High-quality texts are the central focus of lessons, are at the appropriate grade level text complexity, and are accompanied by quality tasks aligned to the standards of reading, writing, speaking, listening, and language in service to grow literacy skills. Materials build knowledge through integrated reading, writing, speaking, listening, and language. The instructional materials also meet expectations for use and design, teacher planning and learning, assessment, differentiated instruction, and effective technology use. Overall, the 6-8 materials attend to alignment to the standards and to structural supports and usability.
*Materials reviewed were created by Expeditionary Learning, on behalf of Public Consulting Group, Inc.
© Public Consulting Group, Inc., with a perpetual license granted to Expeditionary Learning Outward Bound, Inc.
Additional Elements
| Skill | 6 | 7 | 8 |
|---|---|---|---|
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Publication Details
| Grade | Title | ISBN | Edition | Publisher | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | Dragonwings | 978-0064400855 | Copyright: 2016 | HarperCollins | 2001 |
| 6 | Frightful's Mountain | 978-0141312354 | Copyright: 2016 | Puffin Books | 2001 |
| 6 | Flush | 978-0375861253 | Copyright: 2016 | Yearling | 2010 |
| 6 | D'Aulaires' Book of Greek Myths | 978-0440406945 | Copyright: 2016 | Delacorte Books for Young Readers | 1992 |
| 6 | Bud, Not Buddy | 978-0440413288 | Copyright: 2016 | Yearling | 1999 |
| 6 | Technically, It's Not My Fault: Concrete Poems | 978-0618503612 | Copyright: 2016 | Clarion | 2004 |
| 6 | Blue Lipstick: Concrete Poems | 978-0618851324 | Copyright: 2016 | HMH Books for Young Readers | 2007 |
| 6 | World Without Fish | 978-0761156079 | Copyright: 2016 | Workman Publishing Company | 2011 |
| 6 | Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village | 978-0763643324 | Copyright: 2016 | Candlewick | 2008 |
| 6 | The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book 1) | 9780786838653 | Copyright: 2016 | Disney-Hyperion | 2006 |
| 7 | 978-0140349818 | Copyright: 2016 | |||
| 7 | 978-0375824050 | Copyright: 2016 | |||
| 7 | 978-0547577319 | Copyright: 2016 | |||
| 7 | 978-1439102084 | Copyright: 2016 | |||
| 7 | 978-1580493994 | Copyright: 2016 | |||
| 7 | 978-1590787847 | Copyright: 2016 | |||
| 7 | 978-1614066835 | Copyright: 2016 | |||
| 7 | 978-1880000427 | Copyright: 2016 | |||
| 8 | 978-0061962790 | Copyright: 2016 | |||
| 8 | 978-0345511010 | Copyright: 2016 | |||
| 8 | 978-0446310789 | Copyright: 2016 | |||
| 8 | 978-0465027538 | Copyright: 2016 | |||
| 8 | 978-0743288507 | Copyright: 2016 | |||
| 8 | 978-0743477543 | Copyright: 2016 | |||
| 8 | 978-0756545123 | Copyright: 2016 | |||
| 8 | 978-0812974492 | Copyright: 2016 | |||
| 8 | 978-1101993835 | Copyright: 2016 |