K-8 Curriculum and Standards Alignment
Empowering Writers is a comprehensive writing curriculum that supports the teaching of state standards through innovative curriculum materials and professional development opportunities that emphasize proven teaching methods and lessons. Accountability for both teachers and students is enhanced through the use of these strategies and materials, which are designed to promote consistency in instruction across and between grade levels.
Empowering Writers provides educators with teaching strategies and straight-forward lesson plans for teaching writing in ways that promote growth of skills and understanding not only in writing, but spanning across subject areas. The powerful skill-focused teaching methods have continually proven to be effective for students at varying developmental levels and with diverse learning strengths.
The following standards alignment tables illustrate how comprehensively the Empowering Writers curriculum materials and resources support the teaching of the curriculum standards at each grade level (K-8). Each table indicates the specific Empowering Writers curriculum materials and resources are developmentally appropriate and specifically designed for the particular age group and grade level.
In the elementary grades the Empowering Writers curriculum alignment is shown across the curriculum, spanning all subject areas, indicating the strength of the materials for building student skills and competencies across subject areas. Because the lessons build student skills relevant to so many subjects, teachers find that using Empowering Writers often helps streamline the process of addressing many skill areas across a grade level curriculum. Moving from primary to middle grades, the alignment indicates an increasingly strong emphasis in the areas of reading and language arts. The middle school alignment focuses solely on the English Language Arts and Reading skill areas.
The shaded ( ) blocks in the tables represent standards that are directly taught in the Empowering Writers curricula and resource materials. Blocks in the tables that are not shaded ( ) indicate areas where the Empowering Writers curricula and resource materials provide reinforcement and practice of the indicated standards. In order to view the verbiage of a particular skill in any table, simply move your cursor over the desired skill. A text box containing the language of the particular skill standard will appear.
