ILA Bridges

Plan for Success With ILA Bridges: Instructional Units for the Engaging Classroom

These complete literacy units, created by classroom teacher and researcher teams, give you the tools to ensure your students acquire the critical literacy skills and strategies they need for success. Each highly engaging unit provides goals, activities, resources, culminating projects, and assessment guides for lesson planning inspiration (or following to the letter). The series is designed by ILA's Literacy Research Panel to be aligned with the CCSS and useful for all educators, no matter what standards are in place in your district.

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Grades K–2

• Celebrating Me, Celebrating You: We Are Alike and Different
  An Interdisciplinary Unit for Kindergarten
  Renee Huffman, Amber Marcum, Peggy Rice, & Diane Bottomley
• Biography Through Shared Research
  An Interdisciplinary Unit for K–2
  Kimberly Hartnett-Edwards, Keith Garvert, & Jamie D'Angelo
• Exploring Frogs and Toads
  Integrating Math, Science, and Language for K–2
  Kathleen Burrell, Traci Wagner, & Lisa Moriarty
• Exploring the Natural Resources in Our Community
  Interdisciplinary Unit for Grades 1–2
  Debbie Linville, Liz Green, & Leni Fragakis
• Traditions
  Multicultural Literature and the Inquiry Approach for the Primary Grades
  Laurie Curtis, Gayla Lohfink, & Elizabeth Hohl

Grades 3–5

• Creating Multigenre Projects to Celebrate Cultural Diversity
  Interdisciplinary Unit for Grades 3–5
  Debbie Linville & Leni Fragakis
• Animal Studies
  Habitat, Adaptations for Survival, Environmental Factors, and Human Impact—An Interdisciplinary Unit for Grade 4
  Erin FitzPatrick & Katie Schrodt
• Money Makes the World Go Around
  Interdisciplinary Unit for Grades 3–5
  Kim Beal, Diane Bottomley, & Peggy Rice
• Pilgrims and Wampanoag of the 1620s
  A Unit to Encourage Perspective for Grade 3
  Kathleen Monahan, Laurie Higgins, Mark Galligan
• Research and Persuade—What Animal Should Be New at the Zoo?
  An Interdisciplinary Unit for Grades 3–5
  Julie Jackson Albee, Larinee Dennis, Megan Hathaway, J'Lynne Mundle, Melanie Smith, & Sue Spiegelhoff
• The Sun, Earth, and Moon
  Concept-Oriented Reading Instruction for Grade 3
  Sara McDonald, Julianne Paul, Emily A. Swan, Kim Knettles, & JaNeal Rodriguez

Grades 6–8

• The Message
  Using Hip-Hop Pedagogy as a Literacy Building Tool for Grade 8
  Courtne Thomas & Mirvetk Tonuzi
• Courage
  Facing Adversity—An Interdisciplinary Unit for Grades 6–8
  Sharryn Larsen Walker, Lacey Goble, Kyle Hutchinson, Katie Wilson, & Naomi Zornes
• Exploring Colonial America
  Teaching History Through Literacy for Grade 6 Using the GAUGE Strategy
  Leila Richey Nuland, Ana Taboada Barber, Traci Whiting Murray, & Susan Groundwater
• How the Civil War Changed the Nation
  Concept-Oriented Reading Instruction Unit for Grade 7
  Angela McRae, Jennifer A. McPeake, & Ellen M. Kaplan

Grades 9–12

• The Steps to Race in America
  A Grade 9 Unit for Understanding the Development of the Construct of Race
  Tami Dean, Maggy Proctor, & Kirsten Schertz-Hany
• Cyborg Anthropology
  An Interdisciplinary Unit for Grades 11–12
  Alexandra Seaha & Judi Randi
• Free Sample Unit!
  Understanding Power and Fear
  School Integration in the South (1954–1964)
  Cristina Nagel & Mary Hoch