CURRICULUM LIBRARY

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Culturally centered ELA units for every grade band, K–12. Click any unit to open it in the Teacher View.

Grades K–2

Early Literacy
Grade 1 4 Lessons 3 Weeks

Mirrors & Windows: Family Folklore

Every family has stories — funny ones, brave ones, and ones that teach big lessons. In this unit, we read folktales and family stories from all over the world, …

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Grade 2 4 Lessons 3 Weeks

Helpers & Heroes: Stories of Our Community

In this unit, students explore the many helpers who make a community strong — from firefighters and teachers to grandmothers and neighbors. Through culturally r…

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Grades 3–5

Intermediate
Grade 3 4 Lessons ✓ 1 Free Lesson 3 Weeks

Maps & Roots: Cultural Geography

Exploring the world through food, music, language, and traditions. Students connect maps and places to living cultures — making geography feel alive, not abstra…

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Grade 4 4 Lessons 3 Weeks

Crossing Bridges: Stories of Courage and Change

In this unit, students explore what it means to build bridges — between cultures, languages, generations, and ideas. Through powerful fiction, biography-inspire…

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Grade 5 4 Lessons 3 Weeks

Power & Perspective: Whose Story Gets Told?

In this unit, students grapple with one of the most important questions in literacy: who gets to tell the story — and what happens to everyone else? Inspired by…

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Grades 6–8

Middle School
Grade 6 4 Lessons ✓ 1 Free Lesson 3 Weeks

Roots & Routes — Stories of Migration

In this unit, students explore the universal human experience of migration — leaving one home and finding another. Through original texts inspired by the voices…

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Grade 7 4 Lessons 3 Weeks

Identity & Voice

In this unit, students explore how identity shapes voice and how voice shapes the world. Through diverse texts spanning cultures, continents, and centuries, stu…

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Grade 8 4 Lessons ✓ 1 Free Lesson 4 Weeks

Resistance & Resilience

In this unit, students explore how people across cultures and centuries have resisted injustice and found strength in adversity. Through texts spanning the Afri…

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Grades 9–12

High School

Advanced literary analysis, rhetoric, and research through the lens of diverse world literature and contemporary voices.

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