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Designing a Concept-Based Curriculum in English Language Arts features a step-by-step approach to developing ELA curriculum units that leverage student thinking and retention by bringing relevance to skills and facts. Based on Dr. Lynn Erickson's bestselling concept-based curriculum model, the book shows exactly what a concept-based English Language Arts curriculum looks like and guides readers through the creation of their own concept based curriculum.



Guiding the reader, Lanning presents clear guidelines for implementation and sample units from real school districts. If we do not design curriculum so that teachers have an unambiguous picture of how to teach to understanding, the Common Core Standards will become yet another initiative that yields little impact on improving the state of U.S. education. "Lanning makes concept-based ELA curriculum writing extremely comprehensible for curriculum leaders and writers. Curriculum leaders will be able to use this book as a resource to provide training to curriculum writing teams. Curriculum writers will gain the knowledge and confidence necessary to forge ahead in designing concept-based ELA curriculum for their districts. I can envision using this edition with curriculum writing leaders in a 'book study', as a prerequisite to curriculum work." -- Rochelle DeMuccio, Coordinator, Language Arts and Reading "Lois Lanning offers teachers a practical, principled approach to designing a curriculum that will engage and enrich even as it addresses the core skills kids need if they are to succeed in and after school. Her experience and wisdom allow her to see the Big Picture when it comes to teaching kids about the Big Ideas we want them all to grapple with in the course of their time in schools." -- Jim Burke

Designing a Concept-Based Curriculum for English Language Arts: Meeting the Common Core With Intellectual Integrity, K-12

Foreword by H. Lynn Erickson

Preface

Acknowledgments

Part I. Preparing for Curriculum Design

1. Curriculum Matters in Teaching and Learning

Curriculum as the Master Plan

What Is Concept-Based Curriculum?

2. The Components of a Concept-Based English Language Arts Curriculum

Traditional Curriculum, Traditional Teaching

From Traditionally Designed Curriculum to Concept-Based Curriculum Design

The Relationship Between Knowledge and Process

Understanding the Two Structures

Support for These Structures

Providing a Road Map for Instruction

3. Getting Started: Doing the Preliminary Work

Leading Curriculum Change

Assembling the Curriculum Leadership Team

Review of Concept-Based Curriculum

Summary

Part II. An Introduction to the Design Process

Assembling the Curriculum Writing Team

The Role of the Leadership Team

Unit Planning Pages

4. Designing the Curriculum: Steps 1 and 2

Step 1: Creating a Unit Title

Step 2: Identifying a Conceptual Lens

Summary

5. Designing the Curriculum: Step 3

Step 3: Creating the Unit Web

Summary

6. Designing the Curriculum: Steps 4 and 5

Thinking and Understanding

Step 4: Writing Generalizations

Step 5: Writing Guiding Questions

7. Designing the Curriculum: Steps 6 and 7

Step 6: Determining Critical Content

Step 7: Determining Key Skills

Summary of Steps 6 and 7

8. Designing the Curriculum: Steps 8, 9, and 10

Step 8: Designing the Culminating Assessment

Step 9: Suggesting Learning Experiences

Step 10: Writing the Unit Overview

Part III. What a Concept-Based Curriculum Looks Like

9. What Concept-Based English Language Arts Units Look Like

A Sample Elementary English Language Arts Unit

A Sample Middle School English Language Arts Unit

A Sample High School English Language Arts Unit

Summary

10. Voices From the Field

References

Index