Beginner/Intermediate English Language Development (ELD)

Fall Semester - ELD Bridges A

Unit Title

Unit 1: Introducing Myself

Unit 2: Believing in Yourself

Unit 3: Making Bold Choices

Unit 4: New Beginnings

Time

8 weeks

9 weeks

Understandings

Students read across multiple genres (informational, argumentative, fiction) to make meaningful connections across different ideas, perspectives, and authors.

Students practice close reading, annotation, and academic discussion to analyze key literary elements, including character, setting, plot, theme, and author’s craft.

Students practice micro-writing and examine mentor texts through a reader’s and writer’s lens to naturally apply effective grammar and sentence structures.

Students engage in daily low-stakes and extended writing opportunities to build stamina, experiment with craft techniques, and develop their own voice.

Students identify various cellular components and analyze their collaborative roles in maintaining biological systems.

Students investigate how environmental conditions and human geographical elements—including climate, terrain, and infrastructure—impact significant historical and current occurrences.

Students utilize both qualitative and quantitative logic to resolve real-world problems through the prediction and comparison of ratios and rates.

Students engage with various literary genres to analyze how authors communicate similar themes across different text types.

Students practice close reading, annotation, and academic discussion to analyze key literary elements, including character, setting, plot, theme, and author’s craft.

Students apply the writing process to plan, draft, and publish an evidence-based literary analysis that demonstrates an understanding of literary elements, themes, and author's craft.

Students investigate and differentiate between various types of matter by evaluating measurable and observable physical attributes. 

Students utilize experimental distance and time data to determine and compare average speeds.

Students investigate the defining traits of diverse modern civilizations across various global territories, analyzing how phenomena such as colonial expansion, migratory patterns, and commercial exchange shaped their historical development.

Students perform fluent calculations involving the addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of integer values.

TEKS

ELA (6-8) - .5E, .5F, .5G, .5H, .5I, .6A, .6B, .6C, .6D, .6E, .6F, .7A, .7B, .7C, .7D, .8A, .9A, .9D, .9E, .9F, .10A, .10C, .11A, .10Di, .10Dii, .10E, .10ix

Science - 6.13A,  6.13B,  7.13B,  7.14A,  8.13A

Social Studies - 6.5A, 8.10C

Math (6-8) - .4B, 4C, .4D, .5A

ELA (6-8) - .5E, .5F, .5G, .5H, .5I, .6A, .6B, .6C, .6D, .6E, .6F, .7A, .7B, .7C, .7D, .8A, .8B, .8C, .9A, .9D, .9E, .9F, .10A, .10C, .11A, .10Di, .10Dii, .10E, .10ix

Science - 6.6C,  6.6E,  7.7A, 8.7A

Social Studies - 6.1A

Math (6-8) - .2A, 2B, .3C, .3D

TEKS embedded in all units

Spring Semester - ELD Bridges A

Unit Title

Unit 5: New Experiences

Unit 6: Finding Community

Unit 7: Making the World a Better Place

Unit 8: Everyday Heros

Time

6 weeks

6 weeks

6 weeks

Understandings

Students read a diverse set of thematically connected genres to analyze complex ideas and make critical connections across texts.

Students practice close reading and academic discussion to evaluate the way protagonists' private and public reactions advance the storyline; 

Students sustain daily literacy routines to maintain stamina and literacy notebooks to capture and refine deeper analytical thinking.

Students participate in frequent micro-writing and text responses to practice collecting relevant evidence, formulating interpretations, and explaining their reasoning.

Students engage in a collaborative reading, discussion, and writing process to develop an evidence-based analysis product that demonstrates a synthesized understanding of the unit's themes.

Students investigate the formation and transformation of metamorphic, igneous, and sedimentary rocks resulting from geologic rock cycle processes. 

Students define culture and the common traits that unify a culture and identify the impact of cultural diffusion on individuals and the world.

Students construct equivalent mathematical expressions by applying the order of operations, incorporating prime factorization and whole number exponents.

Students engage with diverse literary genres—including realistic fiction, adventure narratives, historical tales, mysteries, humor, and myths—to examine how authors convey meaning across various text types.

Students formulate interpretations and select relevant textual evidence to substantiate their comprehension.

Students maintain daily literacy routines to track meaning and employ self-correction strategies—including textual annotation, querying, and activating prior knowledge—to restore clarity when comprehension falters..

Students utilize various pre-writing techniques—including thematic research, academic discourse, and personal reflections—to evaluate and select suitable genres for their initial drafts based on intended purpose and audience.

Students apply the writing process to transform initial drafts into refined, cohesive compositions by utilizing intentional organizational frameworks, integrating effective introductory and concluding elements, and maintaining logical thematic flow through sophisticated transitional techniques.

Students investigate how environmental conditions and human geographical elements—including climate, terrain, and infrastructure—impact significant historical and current occurrences.

Students utilize algebraic and geometric logic to construct and resolve single-variable, one-step equations and inequalities that represent real-world scenarios.

Students employ textual elements and genre-specific traits to formulate, verify, or adjust informed prognostications throughout the reading process.

Students investigate how dramatists utilize structural divisions—including acts and scenes—to advance and refine dramatic action.

Students maintain daily literacy routines—including literacy notebooks, structured discussions, and micro-writing—to continuously process text meaning and trace personal 

growth.

Students synthesize their year-long learning by analyzing how their individual reading habits, critical thinking, and literacy skills have developed over time.

Students engage in an ongoing reflective process to identify personal academic challenges they overcame, skills they strengthened, and meaningful learning experiences.

Students use the writing process to publish a reflective piece that highlights their growth and confidence as readers and writers.

Students investigate how environmental and human geographic elements—like climate and infrastructure—impact historical and current events.

Students use quantitative logic to analyze numerical datasets, calculating measures of center and spread to evaluate the shape of distributions.

TEKS

ELA (6-8) - .5E, .5F, .5G, .5H, .5I, .6A, .6B, .6C, .6D, .6E, .6F, .7A, .7B, .8A, .8B, .8C, .9A, .9D, .9E, .9F, .10A, .10C, .11B, .10Di, .10Dii, .10E, .10ix

Science - 6.10C

Social Studies - 6.3B, 6.15A, 6.15D

Math  - .6.7A, 6.7B, 6.7C, 6.7D

ELA (6-8) - .5E, .5F, .5G, .5H, .5I, .6A, .6B, .6C, .6D, .6E, .6F, .7A, .7B, 10A, .10B, .10C, 10Di, .10Dii, .10E, .11B, .12D, .12F

Social Studies - 7.8C, 7.9A, 7.9B, 7.7E

Mah - 6.10A, 6.10B, 7.10A, 7.10B, 8.8A, 8.8B, 8.8C

ELA (6-8) - .5C, .5D, .5E, .5F, .5I, .6A, .6B, .6C, .6D, .6E, .6F, .8C, .10B, .10C, 10Di, .10Dii, .10E, .11B, .12D, .12F

Social Studies - 6.5B, 6.5C, 6.1B, 6.13D, 8.1A, 8.1B

Mah - 6.12B, 6.12C, 6.12D, 7.12A, 7.12C

TEKS embedded in all units